Understanding Airbnb promotion stacking and application rules

Understanding how promotions stack with each other in Airbnb prevents you from over discounting your rates.

In general, Airbnb promotions don't stack with each other. Instead, Airbnb promotions follow the application order.

If you set up multiple types of discounts for the same time period (e.g. lengths-of-stay and early-bird), only one will apply per night. It is always the highest-priority discount that will always apply and override the others.
If you have multiple discounts of the same type (e.g. weekly and monthly), the one that is the most beneficial for the guest will apply.

Promotions application order

Check below the order of applying discounts:

New Listing Promotion
Custom promotions
Seasonal discounts
- LOS discount
- Early-bird discount
- Last-minute discount
Promotions
- Length-of-stay
- Early-bird
- Last-minute
Stackable offers
- Non-refundable discount
- Mobile-only

Stackable offers

Only "Non-refundable discount" and "Mobile-only" promotion stack with other promotions and apply to your nightly price after all other discounts are calculated.

Practical examples

EXAMPLE I: I already have early-bird and weekly discounts activated in my account. I want to enable New Listing Promotion, but at the same time I want to avoid offering unprofitable rates.

Base rate: $100
No seasonal discounts
Active discounts:
- Early-bird promotion: 10%
- Length-of-stay promotion: 15%
- New Listing Promotion: 20% fixed discount

I. Discounted rate - New Listing Promotion

If New Listing Promotion is active, Airbnb disregards any other discounts as New Listing Promotion has the highest priority of all.

$100 - 20% = $80

New Listing Promotion is a temporary offer that automatically turns off after your listing receives three bookings. Once it is deactivated, Airbnb will revert to the next eligible discount based on the priority order.

II. Discounted rate - Length-of-stay

If a guest qualifies for both Early-bird and Length-of-stay, Airbnb will apply the Length-of-stay discount, as it has a higher priority.

$100 - 15% = $85

III. Discounted rate - Early-bird

If a guest qualifies for Early-bird, but the stay is too short to qualify for the Length-of-stay discount, Airbnb will apply the Early-bird discount only.

$100 - 10% = $80

Final outcome: Discounts do not stack, but apply according to the priorities. Airbnb protects your listings from accidental over-discounting by limiting the number of discounts that can apply at a time.

EXAMPLE II: I have both seasonal discounts and promotions. I want to understand how discounts apply.

Base rate: $100
Seasonal discounts:
- Seasonal Last-minute discount: 3%
- Season: from 1 October to 14 October
Promotions:
- Last-minute: 10%

Discounted rate - only one discount applies per night

There is a booking from 27 September until 3 October. Seasonal discounts normally have higher priority than promotions. However, since the seasonal last-minute discount only covers part of the stay, the last-minute promotion is applied to the remaining nights that fall outside the seasonal period.

Discounted rate (27 - 30 Sep): $100 - 10% (Last-minute promotion) = $90
Discounted rate (1 - 3 Sep): $100 - 3% (seasonal Last-minute discount) = $97

Total booking amount: 3 x $90 + 3 x $97 = $561

Final outcome: Discounts do not stack, but apply according to the priorities.

EXAMPLE III: I have both seasonal discounts and promotions. I want to introduce a "Non-refundable discount" to the set-up from Example II.

Non-refundable discount: 10%

Discounted rate - Non-refundable rate always stacks

There is a booking from 27 September until 3 October. Non-refundable rate is calculated with the lowest priority from the total booking amount.

Discounted rate (27 - 30 Sep): $100 - 10% (Last-minute promotion) = $90
Discounted rate (1 - 3 Sep): $100 - 3% (seasonal Last-minute discount) = $97

Total booking amount: 3 x $90 + 3 x $97 = $561

Non-refundable rate: $561 - 10% = $504.90

Final outcome: Non-refundable discount stacks with other discounts and applies to your nightly price after all other discounts are calculated.