Calendar — Per-Date Overrides

The calendar is where you make per-date adjustments to a property — special pricing for holidays, blocked dates, custom minimum nights, channel-specific markups, or just notes to remember why a date is special. Everything you change in the calendar overrides your property defaults for those specific dates only.

Quick reference: Block dates, blocked nights, holiday pricing, peak pricing, custom prices, calendar overrides, calendar blocks, owner stays, off dates, special rates, date-specific minimum nights — all live on the Calendar page.

Where to find it

Calendar in the left sidebar.

You see a multi-month grid of every property you manage. Each cell is one date for one property and shows: the active price, the minimum-nights requirement (small badge in the corner if there's an override), any reservation that covers that date, and any task scheduled for that date.

Open the date settings popover

Click any date cell. A popover opens with editable fields. Click off to close, or click Apply to save changes. The change syncs to every connected channel within minutes.

What you can override per date

Base Price

Override the nightly rate for this date only. The property-level Default Daily Price stays unchanged for everything else.

Per-channel Markups

On top of the base price, you can add a per-channel percentage markup. Three channels are supported in the popover: Airbnb, Booking.com, VRBO. Use this when one channel takes a higher commission and you want to pass it through (e.g. +15% on Booking.com to absorb their fee).

Available Units

For multi-unit listings, set how many units are available on this date. Set to 0 to block the date entirely. Set to 1+ to make it bookable.

Available Toggle

Single switch — on means the date is bookable, off means blocked. Same effect as Available Units = 0 but easier to read.

Minimum Nights

Force a different minimum-night requirement starting on this date. Common pattern: bump min nights to 4-7 on holiday weeks so you don't lose them to single-night stays.

The badge on the date cell updates to show the new minimum so you can scan the calendar at a glance.

Notes

Free-form text. Anything you want to remember about this date — "Owner using property", "Local event — high demand", "Cleaner unavailable, schedule check-out clean for the day after". Notes are visible to your team but not to guests.

Restrictions

Lower-level flags for special restrictions (closed-to-arrival, closed-to-departure, etc). Most hosts don't touch these — they're for advanced use cases.

Multi-date editing

To apply changes to a range:

1. Shift-click the start date and the end date in the calendar — the range highlights
2. The popover opens for the whole range
3. Each field gets a small Skip toggle next to it
4. Set the fields you want to change. Toggle Skip on the ones you don't.
5. Click Apply

This lets you, say, set Christmas week to "min nights 4, base price $300, available yes" without touching the other fields. It's the fastest way to handle peak periods.

What stays in sync

Every override pushes to every connected channel within minutes:

• Airbnb — base price, minimum nights, availability all push via the Airbnb API. Per-channel markup applies before push.
• Booking.com — same fields. Booking.com's calendar reflects the change.
• VRBO — same.
• Direct booking website — uses Vanio's calendar directly, no sync delay.

If you block a date, every channel marks it unavailable. No risk of double bookings.

How manually blocked dates are protected

When you block dates by hand — toggling Available off or setting Available Units to 0 — Vanio now marks those nights as host-managed blocks. That matters because cancellations used to have a side effect: when a guest cancelled, the nights they held would reopen, and any manual blocks you had set on those same dates would accidentally reopen with them.

That no longer happens. Cancellations reopen only the nights that were held by the reservation. Your hand-placed blocks stay closed.

Note: This protection applies to manual blocks you set after this update was deployed. Blocks that were already in place before the update are not retroactively marked, so a cancellation on those older blocks could still reopen them. If you have critical dates blocked from before the update, re-save those blocks to make sure they're protected going forward.

[Screenshot: calendar grid showing blocked dates remaining closed after a cancellation clears the surrounding nights]

Saving changes to past dates

If you apply a calendar change to dates that have already passed, Vanio will now warn you before saving. This prevents a frustrating situation where you think you've blocked or updated a set of dates, but you're actually looking at a past month — channels like Airbnb and Booking.com silently ignore writes to dates in the past, so the change never takes effect even though the save appeared to succeed.

When this happens you'll see a clear error message explaining that the selected dates have already passed and prompting you to check the year on the month you're viewing. No partial save occurs — either all the dates go through or none do.

[Screenshot: error message shown when all selected dates fall in the past]

Common scenarios

"Block Christmas week so I can use the place myself." Calendar → shift-click Dec 22 to Dec 28 → toggle Available off → Apply.

"Charge $400/night the week between Christmas and New Year." Same range → set Base Price = 400 → Skip everything else → Apply.

"4-night minimum on the 4th of July weekend, normal price." Shift-click Jul 3 to Jul 6 → set Minimum Nights = 4 → Skip everything else → Apply.

"I'm doing renovation Mar 10-20 — block the dates AND leave a note." Shift-click Mar 10 to Mar 20 → Available off → Notes = "Renovation, do not unblock without checking with Mike" → Apply.

"Add 15% to Booking.com prices to cover their commission." This is usually a property-level setting, not a per-date one. For per-date, use the channel markup field in the popover. For property-level, ask support — that's currently configured at the platform-connection layer.

"Block one specific unit of my multi-unit listing without blocking the others." Use Available Units in the popover. If you have 5 units and one needs maintenance, set Available Units = 4 for those dates.

What you can't do here

These are NOT per-date settings — they live elsewhere:

• Maximum nights — property-level only. Set on Listings → Content → Availability.
• Advance booking window — property-level. Same place.
• Turnover days — property-level. Same place.
• Lead time — Airbnb-only and channel-level. Listings → Platforms → Airbnb.
• Cleaning fee — property-level. Listings → Content → Pricing.

The calendar is for date-specific OVERRIDES of price, availability, and minimum nights. Everything else lives at the property level. See Availability & Stay Rules for the full picture.

How the calendar uses the date popover under the hood

Every change you make in the popover writes to Vanio's calendar database, then a background sync pushes the change to each connected channel. You'll see a brief "Saving..." indicator in the popover, then "Saved" when the sync completes. For Airbnb, the actual push to their servers usually finishes within 2-3 minutes.

If a sync fails (rare), the calendar shows a small warning badge on the affected date. Click it to retry.

Tips & best practices

• Re-save important blocks after the update. If you had dates blocked before this update was deployed and there's any chance a cancellation could affect them, open those dates and save the block again. This ensures they carry the new protection going forward.
• Check the year before saving. The calendar makes it easy to accidentally land on a past month, especially when scrolling quickly. Glance at the year in the month header before you click Apply — Vanio will catch it and warn you, but it's faster to notice it yourself.
• Use notes on long blocks. If you're blocking dates for weeks at a time (renovations, owner stays, seasonal closures), add a note explaining why. Your team will thank you when they can't remember in three months.
• Shift-click for ranges, single-click for one-offs. Don't open and close the popover date by date for a two-week block — shift-click both ends and do it in one step.

Common questions

A guest just cancelled. Will my manually blocked dates stay closed? Yes — as long as those blocks were set after the most recent platform update, cancellations will no longer reopen them. Only the nights that were held by the cancelled reservation will reopen. If you're unsure when a particular block was set, re-save it to make sure it's protected.

I tried to update some dates and got an error saying they've already passed. What do I do? Check the year shown in the calendar month header. It's easy to scroll past December and land on the same month in the previous year without noticing. Navigate to the correct month and year, then apply your changes.

I blocked dates on the calendar but they're still showing as available on Airbnb. What happened? First, check that the dates you saved aren't in the past — Airbnb silently ignores writes to past dates. If the dates are correct and current, look for a warning badge on the affected cells and click it to retry the sync. If the issue persists, contact support with the property name and the specific dates.