Check your AirBnB Settings

[Michael Stokes]

Hi everyone, just wanted to share an AirBnB experience I had this evening with the group in case this happens to anyone else.  I logged in to my AirBnB dashboard tonight and saw a new section that said "New! Ways to get more bookings as travel changes".  I was curious so I clicked on it and found recommendations about relaxing cancellation policy, shorter (1 night bookings) etc., pretty much exactly what you would expect.  What I did not expect was a recommendation to turn on instant booking, because I have had that on since day 1.  

When I saw that recommendation I went into the normal booking settings and not only was it now set to off, it also lost the requirements I had set to allow someone to instant book.  I turned everything back on but wanted to share that information in case anyone else notices the same with their listing.  I am not sure if it was reset for my listing with this change or if something else caused it to turn off, but I have not touched that setting since initially setting up AirBnB.

Hopefully it was just a setting that impacted me, but I figured I would share.

-Mike