How To Create Your Own ICal Link

Modified on Wed, 24 May, 2023 at 12:53 PM

An ICal link can be used to link your RoomRaccoon agenda to an external booking channel when there is no direct connection available. It can be described as a calendar synchronisation in which the availability of your hotel is communicated between the two systems. To create an ICal link, you must first access the shareable calendar link that you can find on your Google calendar settings


  • When you want to set up a synchronisation with your own system or agenda, you can use iCal. The RoomRaccoon iCal feed simply displays data in a calendar program in Windows, Apple or Google.

  • Conversely, RoomRaccoon can also read an external feed, for example you can use a Google Calendar feed, or you can develop your own feed that works according to the syntax of Google Calendar. 

Follow these recommendations regarding the use of specific ICal fields:

Create A Link:

LOCATION: room name

DTSTART: Check-in date

DTEND: 1 day before Check-out date

UID: OTA reservation number

DESCRIPTION: Name of booker

SUMMARY: E-mail address & phone number of booker in underlying EMAIL: and PHONE: tags

Example of an iCal booking fragment:

FINANCIAL: FEATURE

DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200502

DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200505

UID:1592

DESCRIPTION:Nadja Buckenberger

LOCATION:Sea view room 3

SUMMARY:PHONE:+31611111111\nEMAIL:[[email protected]](/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a6c8c4d3c5cd979495e6c2c9cbc7cfc888c5c9cb)

END:VEVENT



Good to know!

  • To create an ICal link, you must first access the shareable calendar link that you can find on your Google calendar settings. Read the following article to learn how to access Google Calendar link. 

  • RoomRaccoon does not provide any other content support, this is self-service.

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