We are thrilled to announce that Hostex has fully integrated with Airbnb's native Pricing & Discounts API. You no longer need to log into Airbnb separately to build strategic promotional pricing. Instead, you can now deploy, customize, and sync Airbnb's highly effective discount models globally across all your listings right from your Hostex dashboard.
๐ Unlock More Revenue with 4 Powerful Native Promotions
Deploying these incentives doesn't just adjust your nightly rateโit changes how Airbnbโs algorithm handles your listing. By managing these parameters through Hostex, you can seamlessly activate multiple growth levers:
1. New Listing Promotion (20% Off)
- The Benefit: Secures your first bookings ~17% faster.
- Why use it: Launching a new property? Automatically apply a 20% discount to your next 3 bookings. This is an incredible way to attract early guests, gain immediate calendar momentum, and safely secure the first 3 reviews required to reveal your listing's official star rating. Historically, this powers nearly half of all successful new 2025 listings.
2. Length-of-Stay (LOS) Discounts (Weekly & Monthly)
- The Benefit: Generates ~2.8x more nights per booking.
- Why use it: Maximize your occupancy while dramatically lowering your turnover workload and cleaning costs. By tailoring incentives for weekly (7โ28 days) or monthly (28+ days) stays, you position your listing perfectly for remote workers and long-term travelers. Any discount of 10% or more ensures your property pops with high-visibility pricing highlights in guest search feeds.
3. Early-Bird Discounts
- The Benefit: Extends your booking lead times by an average of 2.6x.
- Why use it: Secure a predictable baseline of forward-looking revenue months in advance. By defining an early-bird incentive (selectable from 1 to 24 months before check-in), you instantly activate premium guest-facing merchandising and strikethrough price metrics that capture proactive planners before they look elsewhere.
4. Last-Minute Discounts
- The Benefit: Fills vacant calendar gaps up to the very last minute.
- Why use it: An unbooked night is a 100% loss of revenue. Protect your margins by setting automatic price reductions for close-in availability (0โ28 days out). Since roughly 20% of global bookings made within 7 days of arrival utilize a last-minute discount, this helps your listing outrank nearby competitors and capture urgent demand.
๐ Free Marketing Boost: Automatic Campaign Enrollment
The benefits go beyond your individual price breakdown. Setting an eligible promotional discount of 10% or greater via Hostex automatically enters your properties into Airbnbโs major global Promotional Getaways Campaign.
Once enrolled, your listings gain:
- Premium placement on dedicated Airbnb Campaign Landing Pages.
- Multi-channel amplification via Airbnb's official marketing funnels (including high-converting email outreach, global SEM, and targeted Instagram campaigns).
๐ ๏ธ Ready to drive more bookings? Here is how to start:
You can update your pricing rules in less than a minute:
- Navigate to the Property section in Hostex.
- Select your target property and click into the Pricing & Rules tab.
- Under the Restrictions & Rules section, click your connected Airbnb listing.
- Set your desired discount rules, hit save, and watch your search visibility grow!
Have questions or feedback about our new pricing API integration? Reach out to our 24/7 Support Team or view our detailed Knowledge Base guide.