Simplifying service fees
We’re simplifying our fee structure to make it easier for hosts to know what their guests pay and to price competitively. Find out what’s changing and how to keep payouts the same if you live in Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala or Panama.
How service fees work
Today, hosts and guests both typically pay service fees. As a result, you set one price but your guests see a higher price that includes their service fee.
Many hosts tell us this makes pricing difficult. For example, if you set your price at £100, guests see £115 after the guest fee is added and you earn £97 after the host fee is deducted.*
To simplify pricing, we’re combining both fees into a single 15.5% service fee paid by hosts. For example, if you set your price at £115, guests see £115 and you earn £97 after the single fee is deducted.
The 15.5% fee is based on Airbnb’s global average service fees.
Adjusting your prices
We’ve built a tool that helps you adjust the prices across all your listings at once to account for the single service fee.
You need to adjust your prices to keep your payouts the same. Once you do, your new prices will match what guests used to see on your listing.
Using the previous example, if you adjust your price from £100 to £115, you’ll still earn £97 and guests will still see £115.
If you don’t adjust your prices to account for this change, your payouts per night will be lower. For example, if you keep your price at £100, you’ll earn £84.50 after the 15.5% fee is deducted and guests will see £100.
Single service fee Q&A
Learn more about Airbnb service fees and the price adjustment tool.
*These are examples only and do not account for taxes or additional fees hosts choose to add.
Service fees are a percentage of a host’s nightly price plus any fees a host adds, like a cleaning fee.
Some hosts pay higher service fees, including those who have listings in Brazil.
In some countries and regions, taxes are included in the total price displayed on listings. Taxes are always included in the total price shown to guests prior to checkout.
Information contained in this article may have changed since publication.