Airbnb discounts question - clarification

At https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/channel-management-api-integrations-airbnb-discounts, it says:

"Note that Airbnb does not necessarily interpret the discounts exactly as you design them, because of limitations in their rate engine.  Your discounts as programmed into OwnerRez are mapped to Airbnb in the following ways:

1. Weekly/monthly discounts will show in the week/month discounts settings on Airbnb if they are exactly 7 or 28 nights and have no date criteria. Otherwise (if they have date criteria or target a different length of time) they will be set as rules on the calendar.
2. Other length of stay discounts will also be sent as rules to Airbnb. They must have a criteria of "number of nights" greater than and not be a 7 or 28 night discount. They may have date criteria. They can't have any other criteria than date and number of nights or they won't apply as rules in Airbnb -- you can't combine length of stay and other sorts of criteria like last minute or early bird."

In regard to the bolded text: 

(1) Does this apply also to discounts that are for "exact" numbers of nights, or "fewer than" nights, or ido only "greater than" LOS discounts work when weekly and monthly discounts are set?  I like to set special discounts for exactly 3 and 4 nights.

(2) Do these LOS discounts stack? In other words, if I have a discount of 5% for a 4-night stay, and also a 15% discount weekly discount, and a guest books for a week, do they get a 15% or a 20% discount?

Thanks in advance. 

Hi,

We have another article here that may provide some more helpful information on Length of stay discounts - https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/length-of-stay-discounts#airbnb

Regarding your questions:

(1) Does this apply also to discounts that are for "exact" numbers of nights, or "fewer than" nights, or ido only "greater than" LOS discounts work when weekly and monthly discounts are set?  I like to set special discounts for exactly 3 and 4 nights.

Airbnb has a select set of endpoints in their API for criteria in surcharges and discounts, as a result they generally don't have a means to translate any criteria set as "Less than", think of it like a language with no words to facilitate that idea. As an example I've attached how a discount set as "number of nights equal to 3 days" discount would be passed over through the API:

(2) Do these LOS discounts stack? In other words, if I have a discount of 5% for a 4-night stay, and also a 15% discount weekly discount, and a guest books for a week, do they get a 15% or a 20% discount?

They typically can in fact stack with themselves, since they're applied as rulesets on the Airbnb calendar you may be able to see this in effect on the Airbnb Dashboard.

~Caleb

They typically can in fact stack with themselves, since they're applied as rulesets on the Airbnb calendar you may be able to see this in effect on the Airbnb Dashboard.

Can the stacking behavior be seen/tested using the Rate Channel tester on OwnerRez?

Many thanks in advance.

Yes I believe so, the channel rate tester should break down individual line items including discounts on the displayed charges table. But please do let us know if you find otherwise.

And I'd recommend always doublechecking either way via the Airbnb dashboard.

~Caleb