Creating a free channel manager for small hosts

[Allan361]

Hi hosts, I’m an engineer and I’m thinking about creating a channel manager tool/app and making it for free for all (i.e. open-source). What functionality would you like to see it have?

Please note: I know there are a lot of channel managers made for property managers, I'm asking specifically for small hosts who only manage your own homes.

[Enrico648]

Hi Allan, do you have some news about your project? Thanks

[Agnese106]

Hi there, i am a fellow Engineer, I would love to support your initiative 

[Michael9436]

I'd be interested in using this too, please message me once you've completed the project. Thanks

[Jason2732]

Good LUCK is all I can say. I've been trying to get access to AirBNB's api and its invite only. If anyone knows of a way to do this on a small scale (like less than 10 or so rentals) that would be great. Most other hosting sites lets you access there api to set the booking state ex. AirBNB has become a bit greedy in this department and I would not be shocked if they are charging the Channel Partners fees to integrate. 

[Darren487]

Hi I would love to see more of your CM as I can't find anything this good. 

[GoUppers1]

Hello Allan, if you need support you can contact us, we are a company that manages properties in more than 50 cities and I think we could contribute a lot to your project.

[Renata-and-Nico0]

Hi Allan, how far did you get? I am just looking for a channel manager that synchronises the calendars acros multiple platforms (AirBnB, Booking.com, VRBO, MiCaZu, etc.). Theoretically this can be doen with iCal, but particularly Booking.com is an absolute pig and refuses to properly synchronise, resulting in double bookings via different platforms (or manually block each plarform if someone books on another platform. A real pain in case they later decide to cancel). So a simple channel manager just synchronising the calendars of the various platforms wold be sufficient for my purpose. Most of the Channel Managers out there provide many other functionalities that I don't need, yet I have to pay for them.

[Dany358]

Hi, have you then created the open source channel manager?

Where is it possible to download it?

Is it accepted from booking and Airbnb?

Thanks a lot

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