Instant booking on Airbnb

If you're a host of tourist apartments or manager of vacation homes and you're interested in how to increase your business productivity and reduce operating costs using the well-known Airbnb platform, you'll surely want to know how the Instant Booking option on Airbnb works, which will save you a considerable amount of time. And it's well known that time is money, especially since you won't be charged any additional fees.

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Advantages of Airbnb instant booking

This feature will allow your guests to make their bookings instantly without waiting for your confirmation as a host. The guest will only have to select the dates they want to stay, book their stay and agree on the details of their arrival.

The only requirement you will have to access this feature is that you have the Superhost category on the platform, that is, you have had a minimum average rating of 4.8 in the last year, at least 10 stays (or 3 long-term stays with more than 100 nights) and a response rate within 24 hours of at least 90%.

🚨 Do you have the same accommodation on different OTAs (Airbnb and Booking, for example)? Having Instant Book enabled can be dangerous if you don't have your calendars synced. You can use a channel manager to help you with this task.

Benefits for hosts

Once you've implemented it, the available dates and requirements for guests to access your accommodation will be activated, allowing you to get bookings without having to respond to requests.

In turn, a larger number of potential clients will be interested in your accommodation, since they will also be able to activate in their search filter the homes that have the Airbnb instant booking option, which will allow them to plan their trips instantly. This will notably improve your response rates and your Superhost category, with which your accommodation will be better positioned in the search results.

Benefits for guests

Guests will be able to activate this option in the search filters, which will appear next to the types of rooms they are looking for, the price range that can be adjusted to their budget, the types of services and facilities they are looking for, the neighborhoods they are interested in and the language(s) in which they can communicate with the host.

The only requirement that guests will have to access the search for accommodations with Instant Book Airbnb will be to complete the information required by the hosts, which includes: name, phone number, introduction message, acceptance of the accommodation rules and payment information.

They will also have to indicate their email addresses, although these will not be visible to the host at any time, who will only have access to a temporary Airbnb email address.

How to enable or disable Instant Book AirBnb

These are the steps to activate or deactivate Airbnb instant booking correctly.

1. Select an ad in the "Your ads" section of the platform.
2. Click on "Manage ad".
3. At the top of the page, click on Booking Preferences.
4. If you want to activate Instant Booking on Airbnb, select the option that allows guests to book without approval.
5. If you want to deactivate it, select the option that requires all guests to request a booking.

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