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BookingCenter has an Airbnb direct Vrbo interface to manage rates, availability, and content to your Airbnb profileVrbo 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 Vrbo profile or wish to create a new one. 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 Vrbo business.

In order to activate the interface, you must agree to the pricing for the interface, and then you will have to 'authenticate' confirm 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./connectivity provider with Vrbo. 


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

  1. Understand Availability and Rates. BookingCenter will update and manage both your rates and availability to AirbnbVrbo, as it does to other OTA channels.
  2. Rates: Customers can decide to use BookingCenter's 'restrictions' to set 'closeouts', Minimum Length of Stay, Maximum Length of Stay, etc on their Rates for specific Airbnb Vrbo listing(s). Or they can elect to use Airbnb's 'auto-rate tools' to have Airbnb 's automatically adjust rates as their 'market analysis' decides.Booking details 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 (messaging is implemented via MyGuest), as occurs via other OTA and GDS channels.  
  3. The Airbnb Vrbo 'booking ID' given to the Guest will also be your BookingCenter 'Booking ID'.  Check In the booking when the Airbnb Guest Vrbo guest arrives, as you would any booking.
  4. Reservation Requests inside Airbnb. We recommend turning this feature off, and going with Instant Bookings for the reasons detailed here in this article.
  5. Payment from Airbnb (as opposed to Guest). Since payment comes from Airbnb via their 'payout' 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 'Payout' 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. 
Regardless of which method you use, we recommend placing the transaction reference from Airbnb into the '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.
  1. Please note that one of the key differences with the Vrbo connection is that ALL content pushed (and pulled) from Vrbo resides within BookingCenter. As a result, once the connection is live any specific content updates (images, policies, listing headline, etc) must be made within BookingCenter