SOLVED What are the Airbnb fees when managed through MyVR?
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Okay I see that MyVR now offers channel management for AirBnb as well as HomeAway/VRBO and TripAdvisor/Flipkey. Am I to understand that if I add AirBnB channel then I’d only pay the 1% Host Fee to AirBnB rather than the normal 3% fee, or is the 1% fee on top of AirBnB’s 3% Host Fee?
Thanks,
John
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The fee you reference is MyVR’s connection fee, and is in addition to the fees that Airbnb charge hosts and renters for bookings. The connection fee is currently 1%. Many third party channel managers charge 3-4% for a similar connection!
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Thanks for the clarification on the fees.
Okay, can we set different rate for AirBnB channel than our website or the other channels or would we have to use same rates? Also, the AirBnB Host Fee percentage is on the Rental Rate, not on additional fees, taxes, etc. Would that be same for the 1% fee to MyVR?
Currently, we do not charge Guests any additional fee (we have chosen to include cleaning, amenity, credit card fees, etc in our Regular Rate structure). Could we add fees to only the AirBnB channel if we choose to add that channel?
Thanks,
John
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@John-Hughes Hi John!
“Okay, can we set different rate for AirBnB channel than our website or the other channels or would we have to use same rates?”
We have not yet built the capability to customize rates by channel, but we plan to. If this is something you’d like, you can currently vote for things we should work on by using the “Suggest a Feature” function within the support tab. That’s the process we use to collect and prioritize new features (and not the forum), as mentioned in my comments on the Community Rules thread.“Also, the AirBnB Host Fee percentage is on the Rental Rate, not on additional fees, taxes, etc. Would that be same for the 1% fee to MyVR?”
From the Airbnb app in the MyVR Marketplace: “You pay a 1% fee per booking on the net host payout for those reservations accepted through your MyVR-managed Airbnb listings, billed to your credit card on file at MyVR after Airbnb notifies MyVR of the booking.”“Could we add fees to only the AirBnB channel if we choose to add that channel?”
Cleaning fee and security deposit become a part of Airbnb’s rate structure. Any other fees that are nightly or based on a percentage of total rent can be included in the base rate we send to Airbnb. There is a control to toggle these within MyVR’s Airbnb app user interface to include these fees as well as taxes into the base rate. We unfortunately do not have a way to include fees into only Airbnb. Currently, we can only “exclude” existing fees. Airbnb was just recently launched (and not even formally announced yet!), so feel free to submit requests for improvements as described above. -
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