There's nothing worse than a double booking.
You get an upset client, upset agent, you lose business, you have to do a lot of work finding alternative accommodation, and in Nomad Stays case you end up being suspended from the platform resulting in lost marketing and future business as well.
For small operators its often worse as you don't have many other rooms to offer as alternatives, and probably haven't tested you Overflow Solutions recently.
Luckily preventing double bookings is as easy as having a live availability calendar for small operators.
Usually, small operators use an iCal based availability calendar. The iCal format allows calendars to be shared between different computer systems.
You can read more about iCal in our iCal section, including some free and inexpensive iCal providers.