Leaving Hostaway because of their booking fee?

One price option

Status: Requested 2 Votes
Stacie S
Nov 12, 2022 9:46 AM
Joined Mar, 2019 24 posts

I am currently using the option under pricing preferences to have cleaning and booking fees merged together to show as one line item instead of two. What I really want to do is to have that wrapped into the nightly rate across all platforms so that it doesn't look like there are any additional fees other than tax and whatever the channel charges for guests to book on their platform.  I realize this would make our nightly rate higher than others, but to be able to advertise 'no cleaning/booking fee' would be a good tradeoff in my opinion especially with all of the push back hosts on Airbnb are seeing about cleaning fees. We are seeing some of this even though the only thing guests are asked to do is take out the trash and turn on the dishwasher. 

UstlcRentals
Nov 18, 2022 1:41 PM
Joined Oct, 2021 54 posts

So what exactly is your question or concern here? Sorry if I just didn't understand. The price and fees battle is a struggle for every host. Figuring out the best way to appeal to the customer and make your profit off it is something you have to test out on your own for each property. I took 1 months cleaning fees total for the 1 property and divided it by 30 days and that's how much I raised my nightly rate, to remove the fee. 

OPCD TX
Feb 15, 2023 9:53 AM
Joined Aug, 2019 24 posts

Have you tried this Stacie with the new options available on ORZ?