Help creating multiple accounts with Airbnb with the same email

[Eric Drum]

We are in the process of helping manage another hosts properties. We are planning on working the "front" end of the hosting business (marketing, pricing, lead generation etc.). However, Airbnb is saying that they can't add another "hosting team member" since we already have a email set up with another house that we have listed on the platform. We could become a co-host but it's our understanding that we wouldn't be able to see the revenue and the other reports that a full host could see. We want to be able to see all this information since we will be handling the revenue and bookings etc. We have called Airbnb and they are saying that we would need to create another email and have another phone number and since we already have a listing. This doesn't seem right... Are there any work arounds for this? Thank you all in advance for the help!

[Ryan Moyer]

Quote from @Eric Drum:

Thank you @Ryan Moyer!! If I'm understanding this correctly people that are managing several STR for other individuals are probably using some type of platform like Hospitable so they aren't having to create individual email/phone numbers for each property they are managing. Does Hospitable just roll everything up into essentially one account? We are using Pricelabs now for dynamic pricing but it sounds like we need another tool/website if we want to start managing multiple properties, correct? Thank you again for the help and guidance!

99% of people are either using their own account as a co-host attached to the property owner's account, or using a separate business account where they host all of the other listings under that one account.  IE they manage 10 other people's properties so they have one business account with those 10 listings in it.

It sounds like what you're wanting to do is create a separate Airbnb account for each property.  So to manage 10 properties you would have 10 Airbnb accounts.  That is definitely not normal SOP and not the way people typically do it.  If you wanted to do it that way could use a channel manager like Hospitable and add all 10 of those Airbnb accounts (which would each need their own email and phone number) to manage them from one place.  Or, you could add your primary account as a co-host on each of those 10 accounts and manage them from your primary.  But either way to create 10 accounts you need to 10 emails and 10 phone numbers.

Though, again, that would technically be against Airbnb's ToS unless you had 10 separate companies with 10 separate tax EIN's as well.

If you're asking what everyone else does, it's either create 1 separate business account that hosts all of their PM listings, or use their primary account as a co-host under the owner's Airbnb accounts.