Managing prices across multiple platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo can be challenging, especially when ensuring consistent pricing and avoiding double charges. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps to set up your PriceLabs account for both Airbnb and Vrbo, ensuring a seamless pricing strategy across platforms.

Before You Start

Before mapping your listings, be aware that PriceLabs updates prices and minimum stay requirements for:

• Airbnb: Up to 540 days from today.
  
• Vrbo: Up to 365 days from today.

Since all customizations on a parent listing copy to the child, this difference in pricing windows can cause discrepancies. To prevent issues, you can either:

1. Block your Vrbo calendar beyond 365 days to avoid incorrect price updates. Or,
   
2. Manage Airbnb pricing beyond 365 days directly on the PriceLabs pricing calendar.

Benefits of Mapping Airbnb and Vrbo Listings

• Consistent Pricing: Ensures rate parity across Airbnb and Vrbo.
  
• Efficient Management: Changes made to the parent listing apply to the child automatically.
  
• Avoid Double Charges: Prevents duplicate adjustments when syncing rates.
  

Steps to Set Up Your Listings for Airbnb and Vrbo:

Step 1: Import your listings from Airbnb following this guide: How to Integrate PriceLabs with Airbnb

Step 2: Import your listings from Vrbo – How to Integrate PriceLabs with Vrbo

Step 3: PriceLabs does not manage availability. You need another tool to ensure that the calendar for your Airbnb and VRBO is synced. If you aren’t already syncing your calendars, you can use iCal to sync Airbnb and Vrbo availability – Using iCal to Sync Airbnb and Vrbo Calendars

Step 4: Map your Airbnb and Vrbo properties. This ensures rate parity and prevents duplicate charges – Mapping Listings From Different Channels

🚨 Important Mapping Considerations:

• Set Vrbo as the parent and Airbnb as the child. When listings are mapped, all settings are copied from the parent to the child. If Airbnb is set as the parent, and because we do not support the check-out feature for Airbnb, it could inadvertently erase the check-out settings on Vrbo listings.
• Enable rounding to maintain consistent pricing across both platforms. By default, Vrbo rates round to the nearest 5 or 0. To ensure Airbnb matches, enable rounding for Airbnb. You can follow this guide: Rounding

Step 5: Due to the different fee structure for Airbnb and VRBO, some prefer to set different prices for each channels. If you need slight pricing differences between Airbnb and Vrbo, use pricing offsets but ensure that you apply it on the account level. For a detailed guide, please see Pricing Offsets.