Every Hostshare member gets 200 blockout days per year. These are the dates you set aside for yourself — your peak revenue nights, your busiest season, personal use, or any time your property simply isn't available to share. Hostshare only ever offers your unblocked, available dates to the network.
What blockout dates are for
Blockout days put you in control of your calendar. Use them to protect:
Your highest-earning dates and peak season
Holidays, local events, or other premium periods
Personal stays or times your property is closed
Any dates you'd rather not make available to the network
Dates booked through your connected calendars (Airbnb, Vrbo, your PMS, and so on) are automatically unavailable too — blockout days are separate, for the dates you actively want to hold back.
Understanding your calendar
Your Hostshare calendar uses a color key so you can see the status of every date at a glance:
Available — fully open and bookable by members on Hostshare.
Blocked — dates you've blocked using your blockout days. Not available to book.
Externally Blocked — dates blocked by your connected calendar (Airbnb, Vrbo, PMS, or a manual block). These can't be edited in Hostshare and aren't bookable.
Short Gap — appears when there aren't enough consecutive open days for a bookable stay.
If you have dates blocked externally that aren't showing up in Hostshare, it usually means we're missing an iCal feed — most often from your PMS, Vrbo, or Booking.com. Adding the missing iCal will sync those blocks automatically. Reach out to support and we'll help you add it.
AI-assisted blockout recommendations
You don't have to guess which dates are worth protecting. Hostshare uses an AI-powered pricing tool, Wheelhouse™, and its Local Demand API to predict which of your dates are most likely to book at top rates — so you can block smart and keep your best nights for paying guests.
Bookability Score™
Each date gets a Bookability Score™ from 0–100, reflecting real-time local demand, upcoming events, booking trends, and your listing's historical performance:
High (80–99) — peak-value nights you may want to block for paying guests.
Medium (50–79) — balanced nights; share or keep depending on your goals.
Low (0–49) — off-peak dates that are ideal for sharing on Hostshare.
When you set up your blockouts, you'll see suggested dates based on these scores, and you can review and adjust them before saving. It's a smarter way to protect your highest-earning nights while opening up the rest to the network.
External bookings count toward your limit
Reservations from your connected calendars are automatically counted toward your 200-day total, so you're never double-counting your availability. These external blocks can't be edited inside Hostshare — they're managed wherever they were originally booked. If you happen to reach your blockout limit through external bookings alone, that's completely fine; you can still participate, you just won't be able to add more blockout days that year.
Editing your blockout dates
When you can edit your blockouts depends on your membership tier. These rules exist for one important reason: editing should never affect a booking that's already been made on the platform. Once a member books an available date, that date needs to stay reliable.
Starter & Starter Plus — Edit anytime
You can add or adjust your blockout dates whenever you like, with full flexibility over your calendar.
Pro & Max — Locked within 90 days
Your blockout dates can be edited only beyond a rolling 90-day window. The next 90 days are locked once your blockouts are set, and can't be adjusted.
How the 90-day lock works for Pro & Max
For Pro and Max members, the next 90 days of your calendar are locked. You can freely set and edit blockout dates that fall beyond that window, but dates within the next 90 days cannot be changed once set.
Next 90 days | Beyond 90 days |
Locked — blockouts can't be edited | Open — add or adjust freely |
The window is rolling, which means it moves forward with each day. As time passes, the dates that were once locked move into the past, and dates that were beyond 90 days gradually come within the locked window. This keeps a steady, predictable 90-day runway of reliable availability for the network at all times.
Why the lock exists: because Pro and Max members share their calendar with the network and bookings can happen at any time, locking the upcoming 90 days protects members who may have already booked — or are about to book — those dates. It guarantees that once a date is open and bookable, it stays that way.
Tips for setting your blockouts
Set your blockouts thoughtfully up front, especially for the next 90 days, since Pro and Max members can't change those once set.
Plan ahead for known peak dates and events further out — you have full flexibility to block those while they're still beyond the 90-day window.
Keep your calendar sync connected so dates booked elsewhere stay automatically unavailable.
Questions about blockout dates? Reach out anytime at [email protected].