Payment rules (guest payment plans)
Payment rules (guest payment plans)
Payment rules allow you offer payment plans to guests. You can collect (for example) 10% of the total booking amount at the time of booking and the remainder 7 days before check-in.
👍 How payment rules help
**More bookings**\
Offering guests a payment plan reduces friction to book. Guests may be more inclined to book your property when they only need to pay 50% upfront (for example).
**More future bookings**\
According to Airbnb, paying less upfront encourages bookings further in advance. Compared with ordinary bookings, the Pay Less Up Front payment option led to bookings with nearly double the lead time, helping hosts to secure and manage bookings more easily.
**Save money**\
Payment rules also reduce your transaction fee burden if a guest needs to cancel. It's cheaper for you to cancel a booking where you only collected 10% as opposed to 100%.
🚧 Payment rules are limited to direct and Vrbo bookings.
Video introduction to payment rules
Direct booking payment rules
Vrbo payment rules
Screenshots of the feature
What your direct booking guest sees
Pay part now, part later
Your guest sees how much they are due to pay now, and how much is due later.
Booking confirmation page
Your guest can always see the amount due and when on their booking confirmation page.
What you see
Easily see the status of each booking as the payment status is shown on the booking summary tab and on the booking price tab.
Updated on: 12/05/2026
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