Free booking calendar and availability calendar by Shared-house.com

Our calendar was first developed to manage the occupancy of our own studio in Meribel, the first listing published on the site.

• with the extended family at certain periods, for example Christmas,
• with the immediate family during some school holidays,
• with friends for a few weeks or weekends each year,
• and rented out during the remaining periods.

The apartment planning used to be managed on paper. The only way to know whether it was available was to call the family member in charge of updating that planning.

That was friendly enough, but not very practical when everyone had to juggle holiday dates and already busy schedules.

The online calendar lets all potential occupants immediately see available periods

We therefore developed a calendar that lets everyone see occupied periods, whether used by family members or rented, and make requests to block periods for their own use. Here is an example for our apartment during summer 2014. The online version is available here:

We realized that this situation was not unusual. Many families or groups share a holiday home or an old family house. It is still manageable with a small group, but it becomes much more complex when more potential occupants are involved, for example when a house belongs or belonged to grandparents with several children, grandchildren, uncles, aunts and cousins interested in using it.

Owner and simple user profiles manage the booking request validation workflow

For these more complex cases, we added profiles to manage simple users on one side and owners on the other. Owners can freely update the calendar and they are the only users who can record confirmed bookings. Simple users can create booking requests. The system emails the owners, who can then confirm or reject the request.

Sign up, it is free!

You can start using the calendar immediately and for free with only an email address

Follow this procedure to start using the occupancy calendar in a few clicks:

1. Create an account: link to the account creation page.

2. Validate your account by clicking the link received in the confirmation email, then sign in.

3. From your private area, create a property by clicking "- Add a property". Fill in the form and save it with the button at the bottom of the page.

4. Back in your private area, click "Location" to locate the property. This step is optional if you only want to use the calendar without publishing a free listing.

5. Once the location is saved, click "Photos" and upload photos of the property. This step is also optional if you only want the calendar.

6. Back in your private area, click "4 - User management". Invite the other people who use the property and its calendar, then assign them an Owner or Simple user profile.

7. To create, view, approve, reject or cancel requests and bookings, use "2 - Calendar" from your private area.