Stop playing scheduling tag. Set your viewing hours once, let renters book themselves, and sync Google or Outlook so busy times are blocked automatically.
Ask any landlord what eats their week and showings are near the top — not the fifteen minutes walking someone through the unit, but the forty messages it takes to get there. "Does Tuesday work?" "Actually, can we do Thursday?" "Running late, is 6:30 okay?" Multiply by every applicant and scheduling becomes a part-time job.
Rentably's viewing scheduling removes the back-and-forth entirely: you define when you're available once, renters book themselves into real slots, and your calendar stays in charge the whole time.
Set your hours once
In your viewings dashboard, set your availability the way you'd set office hours:
- Days and hours — pick your windows for each day of the week
- Slot length — 15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes per viewing
- Buffer time — breathing room between appointments so you're never sprinting between showings
- Group size — allow one party per slot, or open-house style with multiple attendees
- Minimum notice — stop the 11 PM "can I come at 8 tomorrow?" bookings
- Booking horizon — how far ahead renters can book
Save, and Rentably generates the bookable slots automatically. Need a one-off Saturday open house? Add individual slots anytime on top of your weekly pattern.
Renters book themselves
Every listing shows your available times right on the page. A renter picks a slot, books it, and the viewing lands in both your dashboards — with the conversation thread attached, so questions and confirmations happen in messaging you'll actually see.
You decide how much control to keep:
- Instant booking — available slots confirm immediately; you just get the notification. Fastest way to fill a vacancy.
- Approve each request — bookings come in as requests you confirm with one tap. The renter gets an answer fast; you keep the final say.
Either way, last-minute bookings inside your notice window always come to you for approval — automation never overrides your guardrails.
Connect Google or Outlook — and stop double-booking
This is the part that makes the whole system trustworthy: connect your Google Calendar or Outlook/Microsoft 365 calendar from the viewings dashboard, and Rentably works around your real life:
- Busy times are blocked automatically. When your schedule already has something — a dentist appointment, another showing, school pickup — Rentably won't create viewing slots that overlap it.
- Confirmed viewings appear on your calendar by themselves. Booked, rescheduled, or cancelled on Rentably — your calendar reflects it without you touching anything.
One connection, both directions, no copy-pasting appointments. If you'd rather not connect an account, there's also a subscribe link: a private calendar feed of your upcoming viewings you can add to Google, Outlook, or Apple Calendar in one click (one-way, read-only — your viewings appear in your calendar app, always current).
What renters see
The other half of the win is that renters get a real booking experience instead of a negotiation: visible time slots, instant or fast confirmation, the viewing in their own viewings list, and the conversation thread one tap away if plans change. Renters book more viewings when booking is this easy — and booked viewings are what fill units.
Set it up in five minutes
- Open Viewings → Availability and set your weekly hours and slot length
- Choose instant booking or approve-first
- Connect Google or Outlook (or grab the subscribe link)
- Done — your listings now sell viewing times while you do literally anything else
List your property on Rentably and let the schedule run itself — or if you're pricing the unit first, the rest of our landlord guides are a good place to start.