As you may know, Airbnb collects the total amount of booking from the guest, then forwards the payment to the property via bank transfer, already net of commissions.
How to issue an invoice in this case?
Let's see it in detail!
When an Airbnb booking is imported, it already shows a payment recorded as a payout:
This corresponds to the total of reservation, net of commissions.
The recording date of this collection coincides with the reservation creation date.
From today we have a new function that allows you to manage this collection and invoice the booking in the most convenient way for you!
In PMS > Administration > customer data is possible to create a form for an external OTA.
Click on the orange + to add a new one and select External OTA:
Enter the necessary information and pay particular attention to the management rules section, these settings will help you manage the registration of the payout payment and the invoicing of Airbnb reservations.
Payment condition
Date based on reservation creation: The booking payout is automatically recorded with the date of the booking day
Date based on checkin date: The booking payout is automatically recorded with the date of the check-in day.
Manual payment management: The payout payment is not recorded and the property will have to record it manually in the booking detail.
Commission management as payment
This option helps you manage the Airbnb commission on your invoice. This option can be set to YES or NO.
If set to YES, in the booking detail you will see a fictitious payment also recorded for the commission item.
The commission item will also be shown in the invoice items and the amount of the commission itself will be recorded as a collection to ensure that the total balance of the invoice and booking is always 0.
The commission collection is fictitious and will therefore not be taken into consideration by your structure's collection reports.
Once your external OTA has been configured, remember to associate it with the portal to ensure that all bookings coming from this portal adopt this same logic.
Go to channel manager > airbnb pencil and select the OTA you created:
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