If you are looking for a place to stay on Airbnb it usually means you are in a good mood as you are planning a vacation or trip. Unfortunately, however, there has been a longstanding issue with the app that has quickly turned those happy feelings sour for many Airbnb users and that is the Airbnb pricing system. For too long users have been clicking on a listing, thinking it falls within their budgets, falling in love with the property, and then having to turn away disappointed as Airbnb has added all the various service and cleaning charges on top of the listed price. Well now, it looks like that is about to change and Airbnb is going to start listing the full price of listings.
Airbnb has announced in a blog post that is introducing an update that will ensure users can see the total price of a listing when they are searching for a property on a map, browsing through search results, using price filters, and perusing a listing. As well as this, the company is also rolling out an update to the guest checkout page.
The update to the guest checkout page is needed because there will still be a single element of the price that won’t show up until the user heads to the checkout page and that is taxes. Although the new total price update will show a much more complete figure than it has until now, it still will not show the taxes they will have to pay, which will only come up at the end of the checkout process. According to the blog post, the update will rollout as soon as December:
“Starting in December, we will begin rolling out the option to display total price in countries without existing price display requirements. Total price will include all fees before taxes and be shown in search results, as well as on the map, filter, and listing page. Before confirming their booking, guests can still view a full price breakdown that shows Airbnb’s service fee, discounts, and taxes.”
This is a positive move from Airbnb, which will no doubt remove a lot of frustration from the booking process users have to go through on the app.
In other Airbnb news, did you know that the company is currently testing and rolling out anti-party technology?
