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Booking Calendar, Availability Calendar - Free online tools for holiday home owners

shared-house.com offers a free booking and availability calendar for holiday/vacation homes and the possibility to publish free rental ads

The site is aimed at owners of these homes (or rental agencies), and to all others who need to see the schedule and make requests for information or booking/reservation requests (enquiries). This may be for example family or friends of the owners or holiday makers.

What are the benefits of using shared-house.com?

management of the booking calendar:

  • ability to embed the calendar on your personal website for free. You can embed either the "1 month" version with or without the season's legend (see example on the right) or the "full" version with the contact form (see example below)
  • booking calendar available to authorized individuals only (owner profile)
  • availability calendar available to authorized persons only (private url, typically for private properties unavailable for rent) or anyone on the Internet (public url, listing published on the site)
  • definition of seasons (optional)
  • email request for information form
  • management of users with authorization profiles (2 profiles: the owner profile gives access to all functionalities, the simple user profile gives access to availability calendar and allows to create reservation requests)
  • mail notification to owners when requests for information, reservations or cancellations are raised
  • mail notification to requesters when an answer to a request for information, an acceptance or refusal of a reservation request is received
  • opportunity (not obligation) to publish an advertisement for the rental of your property on the site
  • overview of all your properties and related occupied periods in the private area
  • ability to manage multiple properties with a booking calendar for each
  • the calendar is also available as 1.5.x or 1.0.x Joomla component. Link to download the component: Joomla 1.5 booking calendar , Joomla 1.0 booking calendar . If you wish to embed the full page (6 months) booking calendar and its contact form on your Joomla website, follow this link for the procedure: Joomla availability calendar tutorial
  • It's FREE ... create an account or try it out with the demo account before deciding
  • Link to the step-by-step procedure to embed the rental calendar on your site: tutorial

example:

Availabilities overview - Reservation and information request
booking calendar
powered by
shared-house.com
chalet meribel

placement of free rental ads:

  • it's optional. It is possible to control at any time if the ad is published or not on the Internet
  • full description of the accommodation
  • automatic translation in French, Spanish, Finnish and Dutch (other languages to come)
  • Localization with Googlemap and geographical search engine
  • Privacy: possibility to keep your personal information (including email) not available to potential renters. The communication is then handled through the site until you decide to disclose your personal data to conclude the transaction
  • number of photos virtually unlimited
  • link exchange to improve your pagerank
  • display your rental ad on your facebook profile: add the shared-house application to your facebook account
  • It's FREE ... create an account or try it out with the demo account before deciding

Example 2: Full availability calendar with contact form

free availability calendar for your rental ads, Paris, Cannes,, Toulon, France, 75008 Paris France, Benidorm, Torrevieja, Marbella, Alozaina, Argenteuil France

How to embed the booking calendar from Shared House on your website

Here is the step by step procedure:

1. Create an account: link to the page

2. Confirm your account by clicking on the link contained in the confirmation mail that you will receive, then log onto the site

3. From your private area, start by creating an accomodation. Click on "- Add a housing". Fill-in the form, then save (the button is at the bottom of the page)

4. Back in your private area, click on "Localization". Follow the instructions to save the coordinates of your property

5. Once the coordinates saved, click on "Photos" and upload the pictures of your property (this is optional if you want just the availability calendar and don't need/want to publish a free rental ad on the site )

6. Back in your private area, click on "5 - Webmaster". You will find on this page the HTML code for the 3 versions of the calendar (1 month with seasons legend, 1 month without seasons legend, complete)

7. Choose the version of the reservation calendar that you need, then click on the area containing the appropriate HTML code. Copy the code (CTRL-C or menu Edit -> Copy)

8. Paste (CTRL-V ou menu Edit->Paste) the HTML code on the target page on your site. You need to copy the code in the HTLML code of the target page. Most HTML editors allow to do that

9. As this is a free service, we ask you to add an additional link on you main page (entry page of your site). This code for the link(s) can be found on the same page as the calendar code



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How to embed the full page booking calendar on your Joomla website

Here is the step by step procedure:

1. Create an account: link to the page

2. Confirm your account by clicking on the link contained in the confirmation mail that you will receive, then log onto the site

3. From your private area, start by creating an accomodation. Click on "- Add a housing". Fill-in the form, then save (the button is at the bottom of the page)

4. Back in your private area, click on "Localization". Follow the instructions to save the coordinates of your property

5. Once the coordinates saved, click on "Photos" and upload the pictures of your property (this is optional if you want just the availability calendar and don't need/want to publish a free rental ad on the site )

6. Back in your private area, click on "5 - Webmaster"

7. Choose the version of the reservation calendar called "Code of the version with several months:(540 pixels)", then click on the area containing the appropriate HTML code. Copy the code (CTRL-C or menu Edit -> Copy)

8. Connect as an administrator to your Joomla website, then go on the "User Manager" page (Menu -> Site -> User Manager)

9. Click on the user you are using ("Administrator" by default), choose option "Editor - No Editor" for parameter "User Editor", then Save

10. Go back to the main page (Menu -> Site -> Control Panel), then click on the icon "Add New Article"

11. Paste (CTRL-V ou menu Edit->Paste) the HTML code in the body of the new article, then activate it and save it

12. As this is a free service, we ask you not to remove the links that are at the bottom of the calendar page, and to add an additional link on your site's main page (entry page of your site). This code for the link(s) can be found on the same page as the calendar code

13. You can then reset the previous User editor that you use from the User manager page (see point 8)



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