Don't add any cleaning fee and remove less than 3 nights bookings from your listing! I have asked this to Airbnb customer service, because when you add cleaning fee and allow both short and long stay bookings then if they book a long stay your take out gradually reducing (as the include this one off cleaning fee in the single fee and then take their %15.5, so that your net earning reducing but their commission increasing. They say customer has to see single fee, no cleaning fee, no pet fee etc separately. I was like that is fair but why you are taking your commission aftet my cleaning fee 😆 it is effectively recuding my net earning when it supposed to cover myvextra expenses for short stay people and do other way around 😆). Anyway, you can calculate it for yourself, you will see, it is gradually reducing. Your tax will get more complicated too.
They told me If you would like to receive 40 pound per night then your night rate needs to be 48 pounds (+%18.35). I was asking what about if add cleaning fee. calculate this then? i dont receive 40 pound. Obviously he couldn't calculate and told me the cleaning fee now with this pricing system, it is obselate...you have to charge single fee!
If you remove cleaning fees then you will receive 40 pounds for every night after their fee, but if you add cleaning fee, with long stays your nightly take out after their commission dropping to 30 pounds lol...Cleaning fee that we were adding because of the short stays as nobody would like to host people for 1 or 2 nights from 40 pounds 😆 so once you change your listing to minimum 3 nights then you are fine...
Anyways with this system Airbnd damaging their own system because no one will take short stay people any more. It doesn't worth to get guest, do all preparations for 40 pounds for one night...
Airbnb customer service told me you are right, there is this problem, I will pass your concerns...I told them you are taking the opportunity from me to host short stay people also damaging your own business too...because there will be a lot of people like me who won't be willing to host people with small money for 1 or 2 night if I need to remove the cleaning fee to get my desired nightly rate...he said he will pass this one to the relevant department. I was like if we can't use the cleaning fee, why do you have it there? It is reducing my net earning, if I add cleaning fee...
he couldn't answer my questions, he just told me remove the cleaning fee, the only solution is this and if you don't want to get short stay people with that same rate then limit it with minimum 3 nights..
It is teally frustrating now, I can't get booking any more. Now trying his suggestion, if this doesn't work, I guess I will have to rent my extra room for a permanent lodger.
