Bussiness Trip Account Gmail Extensions Not Accepted

[Sedef4]

Hi everyone,

As a guest, to join Airbnb for Work, I must enter a work email address and unfortunately, gmail extensions are not verified. I wonder why I shall buy a Corporate Email Account (with at least 15 accounts) for one trip?

Has anyone encountered this problem before and solved it?

Thanks,

Sedef 
 

[Joan2709]

@Sedef4 

Thanks for posting this as I was not aware of the restrictions for email addressess for Airbnb at Work. I'm assuming Airbnb expects your business will be booking more than one trip on Airbnb for yourself or other employees, hence the reason for the email security. Unfortunately I am not aware of a workaround for that. Perhaps another Host can reply if they have figured out a way.

There are several low-cost ways to create a business email that can be routed to your personal email account, but I have not found a completely free way to do it. 

If it is only yourself traveling on business, then you can just travel under a personal profile and keep records for tax purposes that this was a business trip for tax reporting. If you have employees that are traveling for your business, then you will have to obtain a business email to use Airbnb for Work, or they will have to create their own Airbnb profile and then submit the receipt to you for reimbursement and you will have to then track that expense for tax reporting.

[Sedef4]

Hi Joan2709,

Thanks for your response. The thing is, I have a separate e-mail address for my business and that is with the gmail extension 🙂

Kind regards,

[Sedef4]

I forgot to write.. I don't have a sole proprietorship, I have a limited liability company and it requires company information, not personal details.

[Joan2709]

@Sedef4 

The same situation applies if you want to use Airbnb for Work. Apparently Airbnb requires a business email address for that; not a gmail email address extension.

[Marie8425]

@Sedef4 

If you are only planning one trip, then a Business Account doesn't seem like a strong need.

On the other side in case you haven't realized most large professional service accounts will not accept any email address that can be secured and deleted with no type of validation.