Hi AirBnB hosts
We have our home on AirBnB in Australia. I would like opinion from hosts or agents on my manager/agent’s commission structure.
They charge 18.5% on ‘total booking cost’ plus $50 booking fee. There’s GST on the 18.5% added as well. We assumed total booking cost was the accommodation cost including booking fee and cleaning. AirBnB service fees come out of the total cost (a deduction) but they’re ADDING it on top of the original accommodation cost.
Here's their maths on a recent booking.
Guest Mr and Mrs X
12 Nights
Accom $3669.15
Booking Fee $50
Clean $270
Gross Accommodation $3989.15
AirBnB Fee $658.21
They then ADD this as a COST to get a
Total Cost of $4647.36
From this new ‘total cost’ of $4647.36, they take 18.5% = $859.76
$859.76 + GST = $945.74
Then they add another $50 booking fee at the end.
Total commission is
$995.74
Thoughts, opinion?