Wix hotel by Hotelrunner - ICal Import and ICal Export

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I’m having trouble with
Wix Hotel by Hotelrunner ICal import feature - which, to the best of my knowledge, is not available. Only ICal export is available.

Working in
e.g. Wix Studio Editor

Site link
www.gudauriski.ge

What I’m trying to do
We are using the channel manager Beds24, which has both ICal import and ICal export options. As Beds24 is our main channel manager the information about room availability is sent from channel manager to all booking channels. At the moment we are unable to sync our website with beds24 channel manager as Wix Hotel by Hotelrunner only supports ICal export (which can help to send room availability information to other channels but not other way around).

What I’ve tried so far
We have contacted the Hotelrunner development team via Wix support and they confirmed that at this point only ICal export is possible.

Help
We want to ask the web developers whether there is a way, via custom code, to enable the iCal import option?

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I am creating an export of all new bookings through automation, then creating a combined existing bookings/new bookings sheet with a view to sending pre- and post- emails to wix hotels guests. The same could be used to create a separate gmail calendar

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Hey - can I ask how you are automating that please? The iCal link seems useless and incorrect most of the time and I can’t figure out a way to get an easy ‘export of the month ahead’ kind of thing whenever anyone books. Thank you!

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For anyone landing here with the same setup: as far as I can tell, Wix Hotels by HotelRunner only gives you an iCal export, so there’s no built-in way to pull Beds24 (or Airbnb) bookings into it. A few options that don’t need code:

  1. Let one system be the master. If Beds24 is already your channel manager, its own booking engine can be embedded on your Wix site (an HTML embed / iframe on a “Book” page). Then every channel, including your website, books into Beds24 and nothing has to be imported back into Wix.
  2. Use HotelRunner as the channel manager instead, since it’s built into Wix Hotels. That means moving the channel connections over from Beds24, so it’s only worth it if you’d drop one of the two.
  3. A booking app that reads iCal. Full disclosure, I built one: Stay Direct. It replaces the Wix Hotels booking flow rather than adding import to it. It reads your Beds24/Airbnb/Booking.com iCal links about every 15 minutes, blocks those nights, and gives you its own iCal link for Beds24 to read back. It works per unit (each room or apartment set up on its own), not with room types and inventory counts, so it suits smaller places better than a hotel with many identical rooms.

On the iCal side in general: imports are only as fresh as the polling interval (usually 15 minutes to a few hours depending on the system), so leave a small gap or keep one system as the master if double bookings would hurt.