Fee structure

[Cindy-And-MIke1]

Will my existing reservations see the pricing structure change?

I was thinking of waiting till Sept 14th and just doing my future bookings with the price update.

Thoughts?

[Joelle43]

Hello @Cindy-And-MIke1 

Any existing reservations are unchanged and will be with the split fee as confirmed by Airbnb and any future reservations made will also have the 3% host commission until you decide to adjust your prices.

Remember to adjust your cleaning, pet and additional person fees too as Airbnb takes their commission on these additional fees too.

[Shelley159]

I don't see any advantage in waiting @Cindy-And-MIke1 , unless you're near some threshold that puts you in a new tax category, for example.

[Rebecca]

Hi @Cindy-And-MIke1 👋

As @Joelle43 has shared, this will only impact bookings made after you switch to the new single service fee. Any existing bookings will not be impacted. 😊

[Cindy-And-MIke1]

So many of my clients are repeats. So once this fee change is in and the price adjusted, they will go to book and it will look like I raised my rent price increased by 15.5%. Is that correct?

Also, That price to my renter is still not transparent since the city I live in also charges an occupancy fee that is equivalent to what the hotels add on. It is added in on the final cost.

And just confirming the15.5% is also charged on my cleaning fee, correct?

Cindy and Mike

[Shelley159]

No it won't be more expensive for them @Cindy-And-MIke1 

You used to pay 3% and the guests paid in the region of 14.2% (with some variation). Now it's all rolled into one fee of 15.5%. If you use the tool, the guest price will be very close to the same (and your host payout also).

Repeat guests will not notice, unless they're used to specifically looking at the "Airbnb Service Fee" line item on their receipt (that line will no longer be there for the guest),

Because the guest total doesn't change, any tax calculated as percentage of the guest total won't change.

[Cindy-And-MIke1]

I understand that the costs in the end will be about the same to the renter but it's perception. If they go to my site today lookin for places between $90-$110 and my price is $100, it would come up. Then after the adjust to $115, I would not come up in their search.

That is what they see on the front end. I have had people tell me they search by price in a range and the $115 would be above their search limit. So it will effect the viewing on the front end.

Yes, the tax gets added on when the final price shows.

Just expressing my views from their point of view.

Thanks

Cindy

[Shelley159]

The guest used to see only the total price when they searched @Cindy-And-MIke1 , the guest portion of the Airbnb service fee wasn't added on afterwards. Airbnb changed to "one total price displayed" globally long before they started moving all hosts to the single fee structure. So the price the guest searches for will be the same - still just the total price (including the total service fee), as before.