What will you find in this article?
- What is individual “Commission and Availability”?
- Step by step:How to enable individual "Commission and Availability"?
- Why can't I edit my individual "Commission and Availability"?
- Will the individual “Commission and Availability” apply only to one room?
- How to turn off individual room "Commission and Availability"?
What is individual “Commission and Availability”?
Individual "Commission and Availability" is a tool that automates the management of prices and availability restrictions on Booking.com and Airbnb. However, in difference to the global “Commission and Availability” it gives more flexibility in setting the commission that is used to calculate BedBooking prices. You can set an individual commission for each room, including individual commissions for each Airbnb listing and each Booking.com rate plan. Additionally, you can increase prices with a fixed amount, not just a percentage.
Step by step: How to enable individual "Commission and Availability"?
Step 1: Go to the "Price list" section in the menu and then click the "Set prices" tab.
Step 2: Click on the room in which you want to set individual “Commission and Availability” to open the room editing window.
The room edit window in the Price list shows the price settings for the Airbnb listing and all Booking.com rate plans, if a given sales channel is connected to a given room.
Step 3: Enable the "Commission and Availability" slider on your Airbnb listing or Booking.com rate plan.
Step 4: To increase the price by a given percentage, enter its amount in the "Price increased by" field. To increase the price by a fixed amount, enter the amount in the "Additional price per night" field.
You have complete freedom in setting the appropriate commission rate - you can use both percentage and amount commission.
For Booking.com pricing plans based on the OBP model, you have the option to choose how the amount commission is calculated. You can set the commission to be charged “per night” - that is, the specified amount will be added to each night of stay - or “per night per person”. - in which case the amount will be added for each person staying in the room, for each night.
For more on Booking.com pricing models, see the article What Booking.com pricing models are supported in BedBooking?
Step 5: Click "Save".
Remember that Airbnb offers and Booking.com rate plans, which are based on the "Personal Pricing Policy", have additional settings in the room edit window in the Price list. You can read about how they work in the article How does Airbnb's "Additional Guest Fee" work? and How do I set Booking.com's "Personal Pricing Policy"?
Why can't I edit my individual "Commission and Availability"?
If editing the individual "Commission and Availability" in the room editing window in the Price list is blocked, it means that the global "Commission and Availability" for a given sales channel was previously enabled in the Price list settings. If you want to use individual "Commission and Availability" in a given sales channel, you must first disable the global "Commission and Availability" for this sales channel. Just go to the Price list settings, go to the "Commission" tab, and then you disable this function for a given sales channel. You can find more information about this in the article How to set global “Commission and Availability”?.
Will the individual “Commission and Availability” apply only to one room?
By setting an individual “Commission and Availability” in the room edit window of the Price list, it will only apply to the Airbnb listing or Booking.com rate plan for one room. You must remember that when making changes to the individual "Commission and Availability", you must repeat the changes in each room separately.
For example, changing the "Commission and Availability" individual commission amount for a given Booking.com rate plan in one room will not change the commission rate of the same Booking.com rate plan in another room. You must enter the edit window of the second room to also change the commission amount of the same Booking.com rate plan.
How to turn off individual room’s "Commission and Availability"?
1. Go to the edition of the room in the Price list in which the individual "Commission and availability" has been enabled.
2. Turn off the slider next to “Commission and Availability” for Booking.com and/or Airbnb.
3. Save your changes.
Once commissions are disabled, automatic price increases and inheritance of availability restrictions will end. The existing prices will remain the same, but you will now need to manually edit prices and availability restrictions in your Airbnb listing or Booking.com rate plan in which individual "Commission and Availability" has been disabled.