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. In order to activate the interface, we will need you to send 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 you. 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:
- Understand Availability. BookingCenter will update and manage your availability to AirBnB, as it does to other channels.
- 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 'auto-rate tools' to have them automatically adjust rates as their 'market analysis' decides.
- Booking details will need to 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
- Check In the booking when the AirBnB Guest arrives, as you would any booking. But since payment comes from AirBnB via their 'pay out' method, apply the 'Payment' to the folio using either a new receipt type called 'AirBnB Payment' or the actual method AirBnB pays you by, such as: PayPal, bank transfer, direct deposit, etc. 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.
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