Sending special offers
Special offers are a great way to drive faster bookings or suggest trip details that are more convenient for you.
How they work
When someone sends you a message before they book or submit a trip request, you can reply with a special offer that includes a custom price. You can also suggest different dates or another one of your places instead. They’ll have 24 hours to accept, and once they do, their reservation will be automatically confirmed.
If they’ve already booked or requested your place, you can’t send a special offer – but you can still give them a discount by changing the reservation details.
First, make sure that your calendar is open and that you don’t have any pending requests for the dates in your offer – if you do, you’ll have to decline them. Also, be certain you want to host the guest because their trip will be automatically confirmed if they accept.
To send a special offer
Send a special offer on desktop
- Click Messages and open the message from your guest
- Click Special offer
- Under the Subtotal, enter the price you’d like to offer for the entire stay
- Click Send special offer
Send a special offer in the Airbnb app
- Tap Messages and open the message from your guest
- Tap Special offer
- Under the Subtotal, enter the price you’d like to offer for the entire stay
- Tap Send special offer
Send a special offer in the Airbnb app
- Tap Messages and open the message from your guest
- Tap Special offer
- Under the Subtotal, enter the price you’d like to offer for the entire stay
- Tap Send special offer
Send a special offer on mobile browser
- Tap Messages and open the message from your guest
- Tap Special offer
- Under the Subtotal, enter the price you’d like to offer for the entire stay
- Tap Send special offer
Keep in mind:
- The price should include all nights of the reservation
- Be sure to include any additional fees, such as the cleaning fee
- Don’t include taxes, the service fee or the security deposit if you’re using our offline fees feature (Taxes and service fees will be added automatically and security deposits will be handled separately)
- For special offers over 28 days in length, you can choose to offer a subtotal (the entire amount) or a monthly price
- Airbnb can block your calendar if you haven’t provided all the information required for your account, so make sure everything's up to date.
We'll then notify the guest with the offer details showing the taxes and service fee as separate line items.
Sending multiple offers
When you send special offers to multiple guests for the same dates, whoever accepts first wins out. That’s why we recommend being transparent in your messages that other guests may be interested in booking the same dates.
Related articles
- Guest
How a special offer works
You can contact a host about their place before requesting to book it. The host then has the option to give you a special offer. - Host
Withdraw or change a special offer you sent to a guest
You can make changes to or withdraw a special offer as long as a guest hasn't accepted it. - Host
Respond to a request
You have 24 hours to accept or decline a trip request before it expires.