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Is Beds24 down, or did your calendar sync quietly break?

Listing Uptime · Updated July 22, 2026

Two very different things can throw your calendar off, and they have opposite fixes. One is a real Beds24 outage: the platform is down for everyone, it is rare, and it shows up on a status page. The other is your own sync silently breaking: one link goes stale, one channel disconnects, only your listings are affected, and nothing warns you. Telling them apart is the whole game, because you cannot fix a broken sync by waiting for an outage to pass.

The break a status page can’t show you

Beds24 connects to channels two different ways, and the difference matters when something looks wrong. Large OTAs like Booking.com, Expedia, and Agoda, along with Airbnb's certified API, connect over a direct API where availability moves almost instantly. Everything else, including Airbnb's iCal option, Vrbo, Google Calendar, and any generic iCal link, syncs by Beds24 polling a calendar URL. Beds24 says an imported iCal calendar is normally checked multiple times per hour, roughly every 15 minutes on average, but it only controls its own polling. It has no control over how often the other system refreshes its feed, and notes a channel like Airbnb may update its calendar only once a day.

When one of those connections fails, Beds24 keeps showing the last data it pulled. There is no red banner, because from the platform’s side nothing is down. The symptoms hosts actually report look like this:

• ·A booking that disappears from a later iCal import is automatically switched to canceled, so a broken or truncated feed can silently unblock dates you thought were reserved
• ·The ignore-duplicates option matches on dates alone, so a second guest booking the exact same dates can be skipped and never imported
• ·An iCal import needs a public URL to poll, so if the source calendar is set private or the link changes, Beds24 quietly stops receiving bookings
• ·Your Beds24 calendar can show stale availability through no fault of its own, because a channel like Airbnb may only refresh its feed once a day

What to do if your sync broke

In Beds24, the iCal connections live under Settings, Channel Manager, iCal Import (and iCal Export). To fix a broken import, open iCal Import for the affected room, re-enter the correct public calendar URL, confirm whether the feed treats the end date as the last night or the checkout day, and save. To remove a bad link, clear the URL and set Import to Disable. Direct connections like the Airbnb API, Booking.com, and Expedia each have their own menu under Channel Manager where you can re-authorize them. If a wrong feed imported bad bookings, the delete-booking tool link removes everything that import created.

Then confirm the calendars actually match rather than trusting that the reconnect worked, and plan for the next break. Re-linking fixes today; it does nothing about the next silent failure. Continuous monitoring re-checks every channel around the clock and messages you the minute a gap opens or a feed goes dark, in the window Beds24 still shows green.

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