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 BookingCenter has an AirBnB interface to manage availability to your AirBnB profile.  Please review the details here: http://www.bookingcenter.com/interfaces-and-modules/airbnb-interface/ and let us know if you are ready for us to connect to your AirBnB profile. The interface is very easy to setup, and even easier to manage on a daily basis, as it's a seamless '2-way' interface that includes all your 'Listings' and all taxes, service charges, and the 'payout' amount from each booking, so that BookingCenter can track your complete AirBnB business.

In order to activate the interface, we

will need

only you to

send

contact us

the following: 
  •  Your AirBnB Account ID
  • User Name
  • Password for logging in.
 

And also, which of your Room Types you want to map to your AirBnB profile to manage availability.  With this info, we can get started connecting this for youto agree to the pricing of $30/month, and then you will have to 'authenticate' that BookingCenter will be your Channel Manager and that we can connect your AirBnB 'listings' to your BookingCenter 'rooms' and rates. Once BookingCenter has confirmed activation of the AirBnB interface, the information below will help you manage the interface.


 
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 Once BookingCenter has confirmed activation of the AirBnB interface, make sure you:

  1. Understand Availability and Rates. BookingCenter will update and manage both your rates and availability to AirBnB, as it does to other OTA channels.  
  2. Rates will need to be changed via login to AirBnB. Our interrace does not manage rates.  Either use AirBnB's rate management manual tool (i.e., set daily prices) or use their : Customers can decide to use BookingCenter's 'restrictions' to set 'close outs', Minimum Length of Stay, Maximum Length of Stay, etc on their Rates for specific AirBnB listing(s). Or they can elect to use AirBnB's 'auto-rate tools' to have them automatically AirBnB's automatically adjust rates as their 'market analysis' decides.
  3. Booking details will need to and all Guest Messaging can still be found in the AirBnB app or website, but all messages and updates to Guests and bookings will also automatically be entered into BookingCenter .  None of the details of an actual booking (such as the Guest Name, arrival, depart, etc.) will come from AirBnB automatically.  Thus, once you have confirmed the AirBnB booking with the guest, manaually add the booking into MyPMS.  This will assign the accurate Room Type (and Room, if you allocate at this time) and make sure availability is in 'sync' between all of your channels. We recommend placing the Reservation code from AirBnB into the 'CRS Confirmation' field in BookingCenter when entering the booking for tracking purposes(messaging is implemented via MyGuest), as occurs via other OTA and GDS channels.  
  4. The AirBnB 'booking ID' given to the Guest will also be your BookingCenter 'Booking ID'.  Check In the booking when the AirBnB Guest arrives, as you would any booking. But since
  5. Payment from AirBnB (as opposed to Guest). Since payment comes from AirBnB via their 'pay out' method, you can manage the complete income and expense of an AirBnB via 3 ways:
    1. apply the 'Payment' to the folio using either a new receipt type called 'AirBnB Payment';
    2. a Direct Bill payment, which can be reconciled with your 'Pay out' method setup with AirBnB as an 'Accounts Receivable';  
    3. or the actual method AirBnB pays you by, such as: PayPal, bank transfer, direct deposit, etc. 
    We

Regardless of which method you use, we recommend placing the transaction reference from AirBnB into he 'description' field when entering the payment for tracking purposes. This way, the folio is balanced and you can reference the actual AirBnB payment to the folio of the Guest.