Airbnb offers two service fee setups: a host-only (single) fee and a split fee.

Starting October 27, 2025, all hosts who use a property management software (PMS), including Hospitable, will automatically transition to Airbnb's host-only fee structure. You can learn more about this fee on Airbnb.

Note that this change applies only to new reservations made on or after October 27, 2025, and does not affect bookings confirmed prior to this date.

With this structure, the entire 15.5% fee is deducted from the host payout. On October 27, we’ll begin applying a 15.5% service fee to your listing price to determine your payout. This one fee reflects Airbnb’s current worldwide average service charges, which are usually divided between hosts and guests.

A split fee structure means the fee is split between both guests and hosts.

This usually means a 3% fee for the host and between 14.1-16.5% for the guest.

This is a higher total fee than the host-only fee!

Marking up your prices to account for the change does not disadvantage your guests and will not make your pricing less competitive.

In preparation for Airbnb's shift on October 27, Hospitable has created a handy transition tool to automatically increase your markups for you. We'll automatically apply your new markups at the time of the switch.

Look for the tool on your account dashboard, or under Properties > Pricing:

We're automatically recalculating the markup rate for you ensuring that you get the exact same payout at the end. We'll also be applying that markup to fees, the way that Airbnb does.

Expand the arrow under Details to see the full calculation.

You can keep our suggestions, or make changes!

The service fee is taken from the total post markup, so the math isn't as simple as adding 15.5% to your current markup.

Let's assume your nightly rate is $100 and you currently have a 10% markup, just to illustrate.

This is how that would break down under the split-fee:

Now if we were to use addition:

Whereas if we use multiplication:

This is the logic of how we've calculated the suggested rates. Ultimately, you can override and change these whenever you like. Our goal is to ensure that the switch happening on Airbnb's side does not negatively impact you or your owners.

The following video gives a good overview of the different fee structures and the benefits of switching to the host-only fee.

This video was recorded before Airbnb's announcement that all PMS-connected accounts must switch to the host-only fee on October 27, 2025.

As of October 27, the host-only fee will be mandatory for software-connected hosts, regardless of where they're located. You can learn more here. These hosts will not be able to opt out of the host-only fee.

It may seem like you're making less with a host-only fee, but you're not. This change gives you more control since you'll set the guest-facing price. This also means no surprise fees for your guests.

Yes, in conjunction with this change, we'll be applying markups to all fees.

Simply type your desired percentage in the box to the right of the arrow to indicate the final markup, removing our suggested markup.

There’s currently no way to opt out of applying markups to fees.

We made this change to better protect your payout and align markups with how booking platforms (like Airbnb) apply their own service fees.

That said, we understand this might not be ideal for everyone. We’re actively exploring ways to give you more control over your markup and fee structure in the future.

If you have specific feedback or scenarios where this creates issues, please share them with our Support team or in the Hospitable community — your input helps us shape upcoming improvements.

If you use our Owner Statements or invoicing features, we’ll be adjusting how markups are represented in the statement so this is accounted for. We’ll report all fees by their base rates and service fees.

For example:

The result is that the owner still pays 100% of the service fee (if that is what you’ve configured) but they do not also pay the marked up on the fee, which was done for the purpose of covering said service fee.

For more details, you can check out our Community post on Owner Statement changes.

Markups will apply to all fees managed by Hospitable. In practice, this means:

We’ll also be launching a new design for the property pricing soon to help you clearly see what your guests pay and adjust your markups or fees as needed.

We’re releasing an update to your pricing page where you’ll soon be able to see what guests see — including fees after markups.

Until then, you can verify your guest-facing prices directly on Airbnb by checking your live listings. Note that the price displayed in your Hospitable calendar does not include markups or fees, and is therefore not representative of what your guests are seeing.

PriceLabs manages your nightly rates, while markups are applied in Hospitable.

To make sure your rates properly reflect Airbnb’s host-only fee structure, we recommend verifying that:

We do not recommend increasing your prices on PriceLabs, as this would apply the increase to all booking platforms you have connected to Hospitable.

We do not have full visibility on how Airbnb is managing promotions and whether they will account for the host-only fee change. We'd recommend reaching out to Airbnb directly for clarification here.

Markups were calculated individually per listing, taking into account each listing’s total payout and fees.

We rounded these up slightly to ensure your payout never decreases after this change.

Everyone who is on the host-only fee will have a slight increase from 15% to 15.5%. We will suggest and apply the 0.5% increase for your listings to protect your payout.

We rounded these up slightly to ensure your payout never decreases after this change.

Our team is hosting a Q&A session on October 27 at 13pm Eastern time (or 5pm UTC) about this change, where you can ask questions and share feedback directly. You can sign up for that event here.

Otherwise, please feel free to contact our Support team with your questions and feedback.