HomeExchange has no calendar export
There’s no iCal link to import anywhere.
FREE FOR HOMEEXCHANGE MEMBERS
Your HomeExchange swap is finalised. Your Airbnb calendar still says available.
livswap reads the confirmation HomeExchange already sends and blocks the dates on Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and your own booking site. No password, nothing to install, about five minutes.
Free for HomeExchange members · Stays free · No livswap listing required
The double-booking nobody warns you about.
Members who also rent on Airbnb or Booking.com run two calendars by hand.
Airbnb keeps selling those nights
And cancelling a paid booking costs you money and ranking.
Date changes make it worse
A swap that moves by two days leaves your manual block in the wrong place.
The one thing HomeExchange does have is a partner email
Every finalised, changed or cancelled exchange is copied there. That’s enough.
Three steps. Then forget about it.
- 1
Add your partner address in HomeExchange.
In HomeExchange: My account → Confidential information → Partner email. Paste the address we give you.
Works even if you sign in with Google, Apple or Facebook — the field stays editable.
MY ACCOUNT → CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
Partner email
villa-mo@inbox.livaround.comlivswap is built by LivAround — your address lives on livaround.com.
- 2
Connect the calendars you want protected.
Paste your calendar link into Airbnb, Booking.com or Vrbo using their standard "import calendar" setting.
Remove it any time; the blocks disappear on the next refresh.
[confirm: real LivAround calendar URL format]https://livaround.com/cal/9f2k….ics- Airbnb✓ Imported
- Booking.com✓ Imported
- Vrbo✓ Imported
- 3
Every finalised exchange blocks the dates.
We read the home, the dates and the guest count from the email and place a block. Changes and cancellations follow.
HomeExchange · finalised · 12–19 Apr · block placed 14:02
What it does
- Blocks Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and any site that imports a calendar.
- Follows date and guest-count changes.
- Handles cancellations — the block goes when the exchange does.
- Works for exchanges you host and trips you take, tracked separately.
- Stays out of your accounts — we only read the copies HomeExchange sends.
What it doesn’t
- Block HomeExchange when Airbnb books — you still mark those dates on HomeExchange yourself.
- Update instantly — OTAs refresh imported calendars on their own cycle, usually within hours.
- Guess — if an email doesn’t match a home you’ve set up, we leave it and tell you.
WHILE YOU’RE HERE
Your home is one tap from a circle.
The partner email you just verified is also your livswap verification. Turn on "circle pool" and we’ll match this home into three- and four-way swaps HomeExchange can’t build — talked through on WhatsApp, numbers never shared. Off by default. Nothing changes unless you switch it on.
How circles workQUESTIONS
Before you set it up.
[confirm: FAQ answers 2–9 — the brief’s copy is not in the handoff]
No. You paste one address into your own HomeExchange settings. Clear the field and the copies stop.
That still works. Third-party sign-in stops you changing your account email or password on HomeExchange, but the Partner email field is separate and stays editable.
HomeExchange copies cancellation emails to your partner address too, so the block is removed. Date and guest-count changes follow the same way.
Each home gets its own partner address and its own calendar link. Confirmations are matched to the right home by the address in the email. Set up the first home here and add the rest from your dashboard.
No. Calendar blocking for HomeExchange members is free and stays free, and it doesn’t need a livswap listing.
Yes. Importing an external calendar is a built-in Airbnb feature that Airbnb documents and supports. We are not logging in to Airbnb or acting on your account; Airbnb simply reads a calendar link you gave it.
No. Putting your home in the circle pool is a separate switch, off by default. Nothing changes unless you turn it on.
livswap is built by LivAround. The partner email and the calendar feed run on LivAround’s relay, so the address lives on livaround.com.
No. HomeExchange has no calendar import, so you still mark those dates on HomeExchange yourself.
Block the dates before someone books them.
Five minutes, no password, free for HomeExchange members.