{"id":1683,"date":"2021-10-27T12:15:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T12:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-booking-new-new-new\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2023-03-24T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T16:18:11","slug":"external-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-booking\/premium-version-settings\/external-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"External calendars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In YITH &gt; Booking &gt; Settings &gt;<strong> &#8220;Calendars&#8221;<\/strong>, you can find these two options:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-booking\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/294\/2021\/10\/external-calendar.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3669\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-booking\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/294\/2021\/10\/external-calendar.png\" alt=\"External calendars settings\" width=\"1606\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-booking\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/294\/2021\/10\/external-calendar.png 1606w, https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-booking\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/294\/2021\/10\/external-calendar-300x78.png 300w, https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-booking\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/294\/2021\/10\/external-calendar-1024x267.png 1024w, https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-booking\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/294\/2021\/10\/external-calendar-768x200.png 768w, https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-booking\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/294\/2021\/10\/external-calendar-1536x400.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1606px) 100vw, 1606px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Calendar synchronization expires after: <\/b>The minimum time for which the external sync is considered expired.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Show bookings of external calendars in plugin calendar: <\/strong>Enable to show external bookings in Dashboard &gt; Calendar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h6>Example<\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If you set the first option to 30 minutes and synchronize a Booking product now (by contacting external services such as Airbnb or Booking.com), the loaded data will expire in 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">So, if a customer checks the availability now, the plugin uses the loaded data as it is -still not expired-. After 30 minutes, the data will no longer be updated automatically, since it requires to be synchronized again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If a customer checks the availability after 1 hour, the plugin will consider the data as expired and will update the external data to check the correct availability.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>We recommend setting this option to a reasonable value to improve performance. Therefore, if you usually get a booking every 6 hours, you can set the <strong>&#8220;Calendar synchronization expires after&#8221; <\/strong>option, to 2 hours.<br \/>\nAs a general rule,\u00a030 minutes\u00a0is a good sync expiration time for every Booking system.<\/p>\n<p><em>Please note: Airbnb synchronizes external bookings every 2 hours.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information on synchronizing your calendars, please refer to this page <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-booking\/category\/premium-version-settings\/booking-sync-premium-version-settings\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In YITH &gt; Booking &gt; Settings &gt; &#8220;Calendars&#8221;, you can find these two options: Calendar synchronization expires after: The minimum time for which the external sync is considered expired. Show bookings of external calendars in plugin calendar: Enable to show external bookings in Dashboard &gt; Calendar. Example If you set the first option to 30 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-booking\/premium-version-settings\/external-calendar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">External calendars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calendars-settings","category-premium-version-settings","category-settings-tab-premium-version-settings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>YITH Booking and Appointment: External calendars<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"YITH Booking and Appointment: External calendars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In YITH &gt; Booking &gt; Settings &gt; &#8220;Calendars&#8221;, you can find these two options: Calendar synchronization expires after: The minimum time for which the external sync is considered expired. 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