Airbnb Rate Plans
This page is about the menu (SETTINGS) CHANNEL MANAGER > AIRBNB > RATE PLANS and explains how to use create or manage Airbnb rate plans from Beds24.
Contents
1 Gereral information about Airbnb Rate Plans
Airbnb enables rate plans at the host account level. If a host wants to use rate plans, they must use rate plans for all of their listings. If you set one listing to use rate plans Airbnb will change the calendar view for all listings in the Airbnb account to a "Grid" view.
You can create up to 10 rate plans which can be used for all listings in the Airbnb account.
Beds24 is beta testing the new rate plan feature for Airbnb. Please be aware that rate plans still in beta testing at Airbnbs end.
2 Limitations
- When you enable rate plans for at least 1 listing within an account, the multicalendar will redirect you to the inventory grid page.
- Airbnb will not perform a second availability check for listings using rate plans.
- Airbnb do not support booking modifications for listings using rate palns. The guest on will have to cancel and rebook again if alteration is needed.
- Special Offers are not supported at the moment.
- The max number of occupancy prices is 16:
- Listings in Italy and China cannot use rate plans.
- Listings using rate plans will not be bookable by guests from China.
- The pricing model can only be changed in Beds24. Do not disconnect a listing which is set to rate plans. If you need to disconnect a listing set it do "Per Day Pricing" or "Per Occupancy Pricing" in Beds24 before you disconnect.
3 Display on Airbnb
A maximum of 2 rate plans will be displayed to guests at a given time depending on the cancellation policy. Airbnb will display one refundable and another non-refundable rate plan and out of these (a) the lowest and (b) the most flexible rate.
- Refundable rate plan: flexible, moderate and strict (strict_14_with_grace_period) cancellation policy
- Non-refundable rate plan non_refundable, super_strict_30 and super_strict_60 cancellation policy
Visibility scenarios
- If there is one or more refundable rate plans, only one with the most flexible cancellation policy will be
displayed to guests.
- If there is one or more non-refundable rate plans, the one with the lowest rate will be displayed to guests.
- If there is a mix of refundable and non-refundable rate plans, the most flexible refundable and the cheapest
non-refundable rate plans will be displayed to guests your pricing model is RLO (derived prices) only Booking.com can change rate plans. Contact Booking.com support or change to Occupancy Pricing.
4 Setup
Set up
Step 1: Activate all listings in the Airbnb account for rate plans
Go to (SETTINGS) CHANNEL MANAGER > AIRBNB > MAPPING and set "Pricing Model" = Rate Plans. Airbnb recommend you change all listings in the same Airbnb account because if one listing in an account is using rate plans they will change the calendar view for all to a "Grid" view.
Step 2: Create rate plans
Go to (SETTINGS) CHANNEL MANAGER > AIRBNB > RATE PLANS and create your rate plans.
Step 4: Map rate plans
You need a daily price or rate in Beds24 which can contain additional restrictions like days in advance, minimum stay, days of the week on which the rate plan is available.
1. Go to (SETTINGS) CHANNEL MANAGER > AIRBNB > MAPPING and click on "Get Codes" next to "Rate Plans" and enter the Airbnb rate plan for this daily price or rate.
2. Open all prices which are for other than the rate plan you have mapped in (SETTINGS) CHANNEL MANAGER > AIRBNB > MAPPING. Click on "Get Codes" in the "Channels" tab or section of the daily price or rate and enter the Airbnb rate plan for this daily price or rate.
For more information use these instructions.
5 Edit rate plan
- Click on "Edit" next to the rate plan you want to edit.
- Change the settings.
- Click "Save".
When you edit a rate plan all settings which were made for it in the Airbnb extranet will get lost.
5.1 Delete rate plan
Log into your Airbnb extranet if you need to delete a rate plan.
