3 listing for 1 property (need help)

[James Merritt]

We have a property that consist of a house and a guest house. We just got the listings up and running over the last few days. On Airbnb I have both houses as one listing, the main house as one and the guest house as one. I also have one listing for both houses on VRBO. 

Let me see if I can explain what happens.

When the guest house blocks off, it automatically blocks the listing with both and that in turn blocks the listing with the main house. Same thing happens with the main house being blocked. There doesn't seem to be a way to over ride Airbnb when it blocks nights. 

I am fairly sure someone has already figured out the best way to handle this issue. So any help would be greatly appreciated. 

[Ryan Moyer]

I have this exact setup on one of my places.  4br main cabin with 2br casita, so I have listings for...

1) 4br main cabin
2) 2br casita
3) Both cabins together for 6 total bedrooms

For bookings that originate on AirBnB it is relatively simple because they built in functionality for exactly this.  I'm guessing because they were originally focused on renting individual rooms, so people could list individual rooms within a house or list the entire house.  To accomplish it you want to LINK (not sync, it is different) each individual house to the listing with both houses.

https://www.airbnb.com/help/ar...

From there use whatever PMS of your choice or link to VRBO in iCal and it should copy those blocked dates to VRBO when something gets booked.

So now when someone books main cabin, it will block off the listing with both cabins but not the casita.  When someone books both cabins it will block off each of the other two, etc.

However I have NOT found a way to do this with bookings that originate on VRBO.  When I get a booking on VRBO for one of the 3 I need to quickly go in to my PMS and block off the relevant cabins manually.  I would love to find a way to automate it for bookings that originate on VRBO.