Sell on every channel. Keep one calendar.

It is a live connection between a Keydesk unit and a listing on another booking channel, using the standard iCal calendar feeds those channels already publish. You paste the channel’s calendar link into Keydesk, and paste the private Keydesk link back into the channel. From then on, a booking taken on either side closes those dates on the other.

Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Pitchup, Hipcamp, HolidayFox and Agoda can be selected by name, and an "other" option covers any channel that publishes a standard calendar feed. If your channel gives you a calendar link to copy, Keydesk can read it. Support varies by channel and sometimes by listing type, so check that yours offers a calendar feed before you rely on it.

It is the tool most operators use for exactly that, and it removes the manual cross-checking that causes most double bookings. Be realistic about timing though: channels refresh calendar feeds periodically rather than instantly, so two guests booking the same pitch on two different channels within minutes of each other is still possible. High-demand dates you cannot afford to lose are safer held on one channel, or sold through the full Pitchup connection.

No. A calendar feed carries dates, not money. Your rates, minimum stays and arrival rules stay under your control on each channel. If you want availability, rates, stay rules and full booking details to flow automatically, that is what the Pitchup API integration does.

Calendar sync keeps dates aligned across many channels using calendar feeds. The Pitchup integration is a deeper API connection: it publishes prices, allocation, minimum stays, arrival and departure rules and extras, and returns full bookings with customer and financial detail. Use Pitchup’s integration for Pitchup, and calendar sync for everything else you list on.

Generally no, and that is a limit of calendar feeds rather than of Keydesk. Most channels publish an anonymised feed, so an imported reservation arrives as a blocked date rather than a guest record. You will still manage that guest in the channel’s own system, which is how most operators already work.

Keydesk fetches connected feeds on a schedule and you can run a sync manually at any time from the connection row. The other half is outside anyone’s control: each channel decides how often it reads your Keydesk link. That refresh interval differs by channel and is worth knowing before peak season.

Yes, and we would encourage it. A new connection can run in watch-only mode, importing dates so you can see what it would do without letting it close anything. Once the dates look right for a week or two, switch it to blocking.

Keydesk keeps the last complete set of dates it successfully imported rather than throwing your blocks away, retries safely, and flags the connection in the account health summary. A feed that suddenly returns nothing is treated as suspicious rather than as an instruction to reopen your whole season.

No. Calendar connections are part of the Keydesk subscription at £49 per month, per site. There are no per-channel fees, no module upgrades and no Keydesk commission on the bookings that come through. Each channel still charges its own commission directly.

Not in the full sense, and we would rather be plain about it. A channel manager pushes rates, restrictions and content to every marketplace and pulls complete reservations back. Keydesk does that with Pitchup, and keeps dates aligned everywhere else. If you need rates and content managed centrally across several marketplaces today, say so before you buy and we will tell you honestly whether Keydesk fits.