When you add available dates/times to your spot's calendar in the Parkade app, others can book your spot instantly! Parkade's calendar feature is key to this — as we only instantly book your spot during dates/times you've told us, via the calendar, that your spot is available.
Once you've set your availability on the calendar, just sit back, keep your spot empty during those times and we'll take care of the rest.
We offer a few different ways to manage your calendar, depending on whether you're wanting to quickly adjust your calendar for the next week, or make fine-grain adjustments or long-term adjustments to your calendar.
Quickly set your upcoming week's calendar
Want to quickly view or modify the next week on your calendar? That's easy in the Host tab. Just tap "Host" and, at the bottom of the screen, you'll see the next seven days — and if part of a day, or the whole day is available, it will be highlighted in green. If it's entirely blocked out, it'll be red.
Just tap on the day to flip between it being blocked out (red) and available (green). Easy!
Edit specific times, or longer-term availability
Need to be more precise than just making entire days available or unavailable, or want to make a longer change like making your spot available for the next 2 years?
To do that, just tap on the “Host” tab in the bottom navigation bar. Then, tap Calendar and select the "Detailed" view. From there, you can add range of dates/times that your spot is instantly available.
Or, is your spot available every day, all day, for a long (and maybe unknown) length of time? You can also set your spot to just be available all day, every day. To do this, you'd make, say, all day tomorrow available and then just set that availability to repeat:
Remove or edit available times
Removing or editing these blocks of available times that you've added is a snap.
To remove a block of time, go open the Host tab and select Calendar. Above, we already explained that you can use the "Day by day" view to block out entire days over the next week you want to block out your spot. If you want to make more specific changes (like block out Friday 5pm to Sunday 1pm), select the "Detailed" calendar view.
Then, hit "Edit availability" and "Remove dates". Put in the start and end times you want to make your spot unavailable and hit save.
Alternatively, you can also just tap on a block of available dates and hit "Delete availability". Press it, and the whole block of available times will be removed. Presto!
You can also change the start date/time and end/date time of available dates. For example, perhaps you want to change the start date your spot is available from Oct 29 to Nov 4. That's easy! Just tap on the block, change the start date/time and hit "save."
Quickly block out a few hours
Using the Park app, residents with parking spots can make their spot available to rent instantly for hours, days or months. However, if you'd made your spot available and then needed it yourself for a short period, it was very cumbersome to block out some time from your calendar.We've fixed this, and made it possible to block out times you need your spot back in just a couple taps.
Just go to the Host tab and tap Calendar. You can either block out an entire day in one tap on the "Day by day" view or select the "Detailed view" and tap "Edit Availability".On the following screen that pops up, you can now choose whether you're adding available times to your calendar, or removing availability.
Be aware this won't cancel any existing bookings during this time. It will just prevent new ones from being instantly booked.
Calendar view
The calendar view shows both the blocks of dates/times that you've made available for others to book your spot instantly, and the upcoming reservations for the spot you're currently viewing.
Reservations within that stretch of available days are shown below the blocks. Just tap on a reservation or availability block to view or edit it.
Spot switcher
When viewing the calendar, Parkade shows just one spot's calendar at a time.
It's easy to switch between spots! The spot number right below the two calendar view options (day by day and "Detailed") is tappable, and it will open a list of all your parking spots that you can use to switch to a different spot's calendar.
