Additional Guest Rule: How to charge for extra guests on a booking
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Do you often have extra guests for booking? With the Additional Guest rule, you can set the rate or percent increase you charge for extra guests who book your rental.
Additional guest fee rule settings will not be applicable to your Airbnb listings. For Airbnb, an additional guest fee must be set inside the Airbnb Price Settings by going to the connection details page of your listing.
Additional guest fee information saved in the rental rate settings will only push to the channels if the associated rate strategy has an Additional Guest rule in it.
Let's take a look at an example where we add an extra guest fee for a mid-sized family home. This property has four bedrooms, so it comfortably sleeps four. As a result, we allow up to four guests to stay for the normal nightly rate. However, we will allow up to eight guests to stay in the home, so we will charge a fee for each guest over the count of four.
Click the New button
Rules can only be added while editing the strategy. From the strategies overlay, click the New button to add a new rule.
Select the Additional Guest Rule
To edit the additional guest fee settings for your strategy, select Additional Guest Rule from the dropdown list.
Enter the additional guest fee
The Additional Guest Rule modal contains two required fields. First, enter the additional guest fee as either a flat fee increase, or as a percentage. The Additional Fee field represents the flat amount that is added to the nightly rate for each extra guest, up to the maximum guest count set on the channel for your listing. The Additional Percent field represents the percent increase made to the nightly rate for each extra guest, up to the maximum guest count set on the channel for your listing.
This field can be overridden by values set in the rental rates settings.
In our example, we have set a flat fee increase of $25 for each additional guest.
Enter the guest threshold
Next, enter the number of guests that can book at the nightly rate before the additional guest fee will be added. Enter this value into the Guest Threshold field.
This field can be overridden by values set in the rental rates settings.
In our example, we have set our guest threshold at 4. We can accept a maximum of 8 guests in Rental C. This means that guest 5 through guest 8 will each be charged $25 extra for each night of the stay.
Click the Save button
Lastly, click the Save button to save the rule to the strategy.
Please remember to save the strategy, in order for the changes to take effect. New rates will only be generated once the strategy has been saved.
How to customize the additional guest fee for a specific rental
Open the rental rate settings overlay
It is possible to have multiple rentals assigned to the same rate strategy, with different additional guest fees. This can be done through the rental rate settings. First, open the Rental Rate Settings overlay from the Rates or Rentals page.
Enter the additional guest fee
Next, enter the additional guest fee values for the rental. The Fee must be a flat fee amount that will be added to the nightly price. The Guest Count must be the number of guests that can book at the nightly rate before the fee is added.
These fields can override the values set in the Additional Guest rule.
In our example, we have entered a fee of $50, and a guest count of 1 for Rental A. This is because Rental A is a smaller accommodation in a nicer area, and it sleeps a maximum of 2 guests. As a result, we have lowered the guest count, while increasing the fee. This will have no effect on Rental C, because these settings are specific to Rental A.
Click the Save button
Lastly, click the Save button to save the rental rate settings. New rates will now be generated for this specific rental, using the settings on this overlay together with the rest of the rules in the assigned rate strategy.
Additional guest fee information saved in the rental rate settings will only push to the channels if the associated rate strategy has an Additional Guest rule in it.
As always, please contact us with questions any time. We're happy to help!
This field can be overridden by values set in the rental rates settings.In our example, we have set a flat fee increase of $25 for each additional guest.
This field can be overridden by values set in the rental rates settings.In our example, we have set our guest threshold at 4. We can accept a maximum of 8 guests in Rental C. This means that guest 5 through guest 8 will each be charged $25 extra for each night of the stay.
Please remember to save the strategy, in order for the changes to take effect. New rates will only be generated once the strategy has been saved.
These fields can override the values set in the Additional Guest rule.In our example, we have entered a fee of $50, and a guest count of 1 for Rental A. This is because Rental A is a smaller accommodation in a nicer area, and it sleeps a maximum of 2 guests. As a result, we have lowered the guest count, while increasing the fee. This will have no effect on Rental C, because these settings are specific to Rental A.
Additional guest fee information saved in the rental rate settings will only push to the channels if the associated rate strategy has an Additional Guest rule in it.