How to manage your availability and prices from the calendar?

When you manage short-term rentals across platforms like Airbnb and Booking.com, keeping your availability and pricing up to date is essential. With Nowistay, you can manage everything directly from your Calendar page — and every change you make is automatically pushed to all your connected booking platforms.

This guide walks you through everything you can do from the calendar to stay in control of your listings.

Before you start

To manage your availability and prices from the calendar, your property must be connected through the Nowistay PMS integration. This is the integration that turns Nowistay into your channel manager, synchronizing your calendar, availability, and pricing across all your connected platforms (Airbnb, Booking.com, etc.).

If you haven't set up the Nowistay integration yet, check out our guide on how to create your first property and connect it.

Understanding your calendar at a glance

When you open the Calendar, you'll see all your properties listed on the left, with a timeline of days stretching across the screen. Each cell represents one day for one property.

For properties connected through the Nowistay integration, the calendar cells are color-coded to give you an instant overview:

• Green — The date is available for booking.
• Red — The date is unavailable (no availability left or manually closed).
• Gray with a diagonal line — Sales are blocked on OTA platforms (stop sell is active).

You'll also notice small indicators on each cell:

• A price badge in the top-left corner showing the nightly rate for that date.
• A minimum stay indicator (like "3n") in the top-right corner when a minimum number of nights is required.

Bookings appear as colored tiles spanning their check-in to check-out dates. Blue tiles are confirmed bookings, and gray tiles are manually blocked dates.

How to change your nightly rates

Adjusting your prices is straightforward:

1. Click on any date cell (or the price badge) on the calendar for the property you want to update.
2. A panel opens on the right side of the screen.
3. Set the start date and end date for the period you want to update. By default, both are set to the date you clicked.
4. Enter the new nightly rate. The current rate is pre-filled for reference.
5. Click Save.

Your new rate is immediately applied and pushed to all connected platforms. You'll see the updated price badge on each affected date cell.

How to close or open dates for booking

Need to block a few days for personal use? Or re-open dates you previously closed? Here's how:

1. Click on a date cell on the calendar.
2. In the panel that opens, set your date range.
3. Toggle the "Open for booking" switch:
   • On (Bookable) — Guests can book these dates.
   • Off (Closed) — These dates are blocked and no bookings can be made.
4. Click Save.

Closed dates will appear in red on your calendar. This is the simplest way to mark dates as unavailable across all your connected platforms at once.

How to block sales on OTA channels (Stop Sell)

Sometimes you want to keep dates available for direct bookings but stop selling them on platforms like Airbnb or Booking.com. That's what the stop sell feature is for:

1. Click on a date cell on the calendar.
2. Set your date range.
3. Toggle the "Block OTA channels" switch to On.
4. Click Save.

Dates with stop sell active will show a gray background with a diagonal strikethrough on your calendar. This means the dates are still technically available in your system, but no guest can book them through connected OTA platforms.

To resume sales, simply toggle the switch back to Off and save.

How to set a minimum stay

Want to avoid one-night bookings during a busy season? You can set a minimum number of nights for any date range:

1. Click on a date cell on the calendar.
2. Set your date range.
3. Enter the desired minimum stay (in number of nights). For example, enter "3" to require at least a 3-night booking.
4. Click Save.

The minimum stay will appear as a small indicator (e.g., "3n") on each affected date cell, so you can see at a glance which dates have restrictions.

Applying changes to specific days of the week

One of the most useful features is the ability to apply changes only to certain days of the week. For example, you might want to set a higher rate for weekends only:

1. Click on a date cell and set a wide date range (e.g., the entire month).
2. Make your changes (rate, availability, etc.).
3. In the "Apply to" section at the bottom, uncheck the days you don't want to update. For example, uncheck Monday through Thursday to only apply your changes to Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
4. Click Save.

This is perfect for setting weekend vs. weekday pricing, or for blocking specific days across a longer period.

Making multiple changes at once

You don't have to update each setting one at a time. When you open the edit panel, you can change the rate, availability, stop sell, and minimum stay all in one go for the same date range. Just set everything you need and click Save — all your changes will be applied together and synced to your connected platforms.

How changes sync to your connected platforms

Every time you save a change from the calendar, Nowistay automatically pushes the update to all your connected booking platforms (Airbnb, Booking.com, and any other OTA connected through the Nowistay integration). This happens in real time — you don't need to do anything extra.

This means you have a single place to manage your pricing and availability, and all your listings stay perfectly synchronized.

If you ever need to force a full synchronization of your availability and prices, you can do so from the property's synchronization settings.

Using the calendar on mobile

The calendar works great on mobile too. On your phone, the view switches to a monthly grid for each property. Tap on any property card to open its calendar, then tap on a date to manage its availability and pricing — just like on desktop.

You can also swipe left or right to navigate between months, and switch between the calendar view and a summary list of your bookings for the month.

Need help?

If you have any questions about managing your availability and pricing, our team is here to help: hello@nowistay.com