Translation

• Translate copy and all headings into required languages (to be agreed with John and Catherine)

Buy live URL from GoDaddy or similar

• Look at prices including email server
• Share costs and expiry times with John and Catherine

Calendar synchronisation with Airbnb

• Managing availability between the website and Airbnb is not completely trivial, but there is a standard solution that works well, so my research tells me.
• Both systems support iCal calendar synchronisation. In practice this means the two calendars exchange availability information automatically:
  • The website will publish a calendar feed showing dates that are already booked or blocked. Airbnb can read this and automatically mark those dates as unavailable on Airbnb.
  • Airbnb also provides its own calendar feed. 
  • The website will read that feed regularly and automatically block those dates on the website if an Airbnb booking is made.
• This avoids double bookings between the two platforms. There is usually a small delay (typically a couple of hours), but this is the normal way independent property websites operate alongside Airbnb.
• I have made that link in the TheaVistaPissouri project to make bookings made on our site available to AirBnB, but not the reverse – can you research?

New booking

• Implement minimum stay parameter, additional guest surcharge as required