Coaching Blog S1 Episode 25 - coaching session with Chelsea - Understanding Airbnb's Guest Service Fee and Host Payouts: MASTERCLASS Explained

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hi Chelsea Mark SMI Mark Smith here Mark Smith how are you um okay guest service fee that's what they charge the guest so it's not something they charge you the amount that they charge um that is not a um that's not something for you to pay so in other words um this is what you get paid you get you get paid um you've set the price of 425 per night on top of that they add $462 as a guest service fee so uh the guest pays in total $3,437 and you receive in your pocket $2,876 183 uh and uh Airbnb charge you and the guest a fee of $98 uh 17 for you and $462 for the guest and that is to pay for the a V platform plus their profit margin and everything else now there was some questions about um some other things uh Chelsea um we're putting our house on airb in the next few months and there are a couple of things I was hoping to be able to um uh get my help does a cleaner or laundr mat uh usually normally make the beds um well you'd have to employ the um CLE up and yes that would be part of the duties I'm guessing well they don't have to um if you're living close by and you could uh this yourself then uh by all means you can do that and you can charge a cleaning fee and um that's your call uh is tax automatically deducted before each payout um there is no tax uh so no um that screenshot that I showed you just a moment ago is the total that you get in your pocket um the guest pays in total 3,437 of which you get in your pocket 2,8 um 76 now uh the difference is about 17% so you get charged a yeah there it is a 3% uh fee and the guest now I haven't calculated this but this should be very close to about 14 or 14.3% um and uh Airbnb then uh Supply this thing called air cover to you uh in case um you know uh the guests smoke cigarettes and you had to get the place extra well cleaned or whatever it might be something like that um what else what else were your questions just a moment um so you yes you'd have to make that arrangement with the cleaner uh a laundromat would probably I'm guessing um uh I'm guessing they would dry clean your things there's no tax where can of see what average rates is for a night um well you could go onbb and um check out for yourself uh how much they sell for and you would you could see your own property um in a search of your local area and that would show you what else was available uh it would only show you what was available it wouldn't show you necessarily what was already booked um there is another site you could Google called air DNA um and uh but there's others like another one called wheel wheel house where you can pop in your um postcode and they can give you information uh we don't have that I don't have that information available to me but um but it is so what is the guest service fee I've gone through that that's about 14% um the guest service fee so I'm wondering if this is a tax or where that money goes well that goes straight into airbnb's pocket okay I hope that explains things for you um any other questions don't hesitate to give me a call thanks very much thanks very much see you Chelsea bye get free online support coaching watch videos and much much more at www.b andb Host support.com that's www.bb.com

 

 

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