Find your Airbnb switch date (and what to do the day it lands)

Where the notice actually appears

Airbnb does not publish one date for every host. It tells each host individually, and it does that in two places:

• Email or SMS from Airbnb.Search your inbox for “service fee” or “price adjustment” if you think you may have missed it. Airbnb also confirms by email once you have actually used the price-adjustment tool, so a confirmation email means the switch has already happened on your account. (Airbnb Help Centre, article 4095)
• The price-adjustment tool itself, inside your Airbnb account.Airbnb built this tool specifically to help hosts who don't use property management software reprice ahead of their move to the single fee. If it has appeared for you, that is a reliable sign you are in the group being migrated. (Airbnb Help Centre, article 4095)

How to check which fee you're on right now

You do not need to wait for a notice to find out where you actually stand. Airbnb's own help centre sets out how to see it on a real transaction:

• Open Airbnb on desktop and go to Today > Menu > Earnings.
• Go to Upcoming or Paid, then open any transaction.
• Under Earnings, look for the line marked Airbnb service fee. (Airbnb Help Centre, article 1857)

What you see tells you which structure you're on:

• A small deduction, roughly 3% of the booking, on your side, and the guest paid a separate service fee at checkout.You're still on the older split fee.
• A single larger deduction, 15.5% for most hosts, and the guest paid no separate Airbnb service fee.You're already on the single fee, most likely because you sync your calendar or prices through property-management or channel-management software, which moves hosts onto the single fee automatically. (Airbnb Help Centre)

What actually changes on your payout

Airbnb calculates your payout as your nightly rate, plus any extra charges like a cleaning fee, minus the host service fee. (Airbnb Help Centre, article 459) Moving from the split fee to the single fee changes one line in that calculation, not the whole formula:

• Before (split fee):you lose roughly 3% off your payout, and the guest separately pays Airbnb a service fee of 14.1–16.5% on top of your price at checkout. That guest-side fee never touches your payout.
• After (single fee): you lose 15.5% (for most hosts) off your payout, and the guest pays no separate Airbnb service fee. Your listed price can look more competitive to the guest, because the fee is now hidden inside what you set, rather than added on top at checkout.

That second point is exactly why the price-adjustment tool exists: if you leave your nightly rate untouched, the extra fee comes straight out of what you keep. Repricing upward is how you pass some or all of it back to the price the guest sees, the same way the split fee always did.

The price-adjustment tool, in plain terms

Airbnb's tool does two separate things, and it is worth knowing which one you are agreeing to:

• Switching your fee structure. This part is one-way. Once you use the tool to move from split to single fee, Airbnb is explicit that you cannot revert back. (Airbnb Help Centre)
• Adjusting your prices. The tool applies a one-time ratio across your active and inactive listings, covering your calendar for the next two years, and you can keep adjusting individual prices afterwards through Calendar as normal. Bookings made before you confirm the adjustment are unaffected. (Airbnb Help Centre)

Neither part is compulsory before Airbnb migrates you, but knowing your own numbers before you confirm anything is the sensible order, not after.

Three things to do once you know your date

• 1. Find your notice.Check the two places above: your inbox/SMS and the price-adjustment tool inside your Airbnb account. If neither shows anything yet and you don't use property-management software, you're not being migrated yet.
• 2. Decide how you want to reprice, before you touch the tool.Work out your own break-even nightly rate rather than accepting Airbnb's automatic adjustment untested, remembering the fee-structure switch itself can't be undone.
• 3. Look at where a repeat or word-of-mouth guest could book you directly. A guest who already stayed with you and would happily come back doesn't need to go through Airbnb again, and a direct booking never carries this fee at all, whichever structure you end up on. Put your own nightly rate into our savings calculator to see the per-booking payout difference on screen, rather than a figure we assert here.