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Magically, Adriaan from Bookingmood came up with the answer, having noted that I had begun a free trial. Bookingmood allows you to create a widgit that you can drop into your website. Unlike PIMS, the Bookingmood calendar contains both entries that I have made myself, and those imported from other w...

Hi there, SPJ I've posted a question about syncing various calendars with PIMS, but have just come across your post, and am thinking that WP Simple Booking Calendar might be the answer I'm looking for. I had a look at your website, by the way, and have to say that I was impressed by its design and l...

I'm very confused by this topic, and hope somebody can help. I've been using the PIMS Free calendar for a number of years, and it works nicely with my website. I can also import it into Holidu which is now handling most of my bookings. However, it appears that you can only export the PIMS calendar, ...

Anyone having difficulty logging on to PIMS? I use it to link my website calendar with those of the other booking sites that I'm on. My password is remembered by Google, but suddenly I'm getting a "wrong password" message, and when I try "Forgot my password", my email address isn...

They didn't offer a refund, but have reduced our commission payments by the amount they owe us. Which was okay by us. Thanks for the advice about using Booking.com's intranet. However, I couldn't find a way to get on to this intranet, so asked Bookiply how to do this. Apparently it's not available t...

We decided to stick with Bookiply after they took over Spain-Holiday, at least until we've used up the credit arising from the balance of our subscription. However, now that we're getting bookings from Booking.com, which we never really wanted to go with, we're confused as to how to respond to booki...

I thought this article in the Guardian was very interesting.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... mes-crisis

It's worse than I thought! Bookiply are a kind of third-party "chain" with links to VRBO, Booking.com, AirBnb. All the ones we know and love. This means that not only do you pay commission to Bookiply, you pay it to the other party as well. What's the benefit? Why not just register with ea...

Sunbeam wrote: I don't think the old Owners Direct or Spain-Holiday model exists anymore.

What about Simply Owners?

I've been using Spain-Holiday exclusively now for a number of years, and found it ticked all my boxes. It offered a subscription model, and allowed me to have a conversation with potential customers before they book. The Malaga-based team were very friendly and helpful. Having used AirBnb briefly, I...

Thanks Andrew

Yes, my mistake. It was BookHolidaysRental

Those Trustpilot posts confirmed my suspicions.

Interesting, because their agent is very well informed, and their site looks extremely kosher.

I consider myself warned off!

I'm getting the hard sell from the above company which claims to be part of the Expedia group. On the surface of it, it sounds like a good deal. The company offers their travellers a deal with the flight and the car-hire bundled into the package. For the host it's subscription only, and they have an...

Thanks for that, Andrew. After posting this, I phoned HA to ask what was going on. They were unable to tell me, and couldn't see the dialogue that I'd been having with the enquirer. A problem with their system, they said. Their advice was to resend the acceptance, which I did, but included my encryp...

This is the scenario: I received a request to book in mid August, and replied with 'text only', stating my usual conditions and enclosing a booking form. I explain that that the price includes HomeAway's service fee. The next communication is the same as the first: a request to book. So this time I ...

I had a problem this week with one of HomeAway's "quotations" whereby they added prices for extra guests. We only charge for extra guests in low season; that is, effectively, we only give discount for smaller parties in low season and price high season on the basis of full capacity. Howeve...