What Cabintale does in two sentences
Cabintale gives you one place to show real-time availability, set prices, and accept bookings on your own website. It also syncs with Airbnb, Booking.com, and similar platforms through iCal, so you don't double-book.
Your first 30 minutes
If you've just signed up, this is the order we'd recommend.
1. Run guided setup (5 min)
Cabintale walks you through your first property, your weekly pricing, and a working embed code. By the end, you have a bookable widget.
2. Fill in property basics properly (5 min)
Pick the right time zone and currency now — they affect every other feature, and fixing them later is awkward.
3. Set seasonal prices (10 min)
Add a high-season tier on top of your year-round baseline. The widget will charge the right amount when guests pick dates in either window.
4. Connect your existing calendars (5 min)
If you already take bookings on Airbnb or Booking.com, paste their iCal URLs here so those bookings show as blocked in Cabintale.
→ iCal import (Connected calendars)
5. Share your direct bookings back (5 min)
Copy your Cabintale .ics URL into Airbnb / Booking.com so direct reservations also show as blocked there.
→ iCal export (Subscription link)
Find your way around the help center
| Section | What's inside |
|---|---|
| Get setup | Property basics, calendar, availability window, seasonal pricing, booking deadline, languages and currencies |
| Connect your channels | iCal import, iCal export |
| Customize your site | Embeddable widget, look and feel, custom booking form, time-slot calendar, instant vs. request |
| Run daily bookings | Email notifications, guest management, booking dashboard, revenue dashboard, manifests, payment processing |
| Account | Account settings, language, password, close account |
A few things that will save you time later
- Use the time zone that matches your property's actual location. Booking deadlines, "today" calculations, and manifests all use it. UTC will silently break things you only notice the next morning.
- In pricing grids, 0 means "this day is unavailable." This catches almost everyone once. Set every weekday you want to be bookable to a positive number.
- Tokens in iCal URLs are public-but-unguessable. Anyone with the URL can subscribe to it, but no one can guess one. Treat them like a shared secret — paste them only into trusted systems.