Airbnb Automation

Tags: Airbnb Hosting

Advanced techniques for multi-property hosts & managers to scale, optimize and automate an Airbnb business

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.7

- Scale your Airbnb business
- Automate most of the repetitive tasks
- Automate 90% of communication

What you'll learn

Scale your Airbnb business

Automate most of the repetitive tasks

Automate 90% of communication

Automate bookkeeping

Optimize preparation between bookings

Automate pricing

* Requirements

* Being an Airbnb host with multiple listings

Description

This course is for Airbnb hosts or managers who have multiple listings and need to save time on repetitive tasks. Everything inside this course comes from my own experience: I'm a part-time real-estate investor and I rent my properties on Airbnb. However, the more properties I was buying, the more time I was dedicating to hosting. And since this is not my main business activity, I put everything in place to automate and optimize it to the maximum. As of today, I arrived at a point where almost everything works in the background. Here are some of the tasks I automated:

Bookkeeping inside Google Sheets. Everything is filled and calculated automatically.
Cleaning crew dates notifications. They receive the next check-out dates automatically by text message.
Messaging with guests: 90% of it is automated, the rest is optimized so they don't need to ask me questions.
Self check-in: guests always arrive and depart by themselves, I never need to go myself.
Between the bookings: my cleaning crew is efficient and takes care of everything. Refills are optimized.
Better ratings. Thanks to a few tricks, my ratings are going up automatically.

And although in this course I will show you how to get your Airbnb booking data inside Google Sheets, you will also be able to do get it inside Xero and Quickbooks if you prefer to use that. This is not covered in this course but once you understand how it works with Google Sheets you will be able to easily reproduce the same system with QuickBooks and Xero. For everything else, I'm still working on the remaining manual tasks and I'll be updating the course when I come up with automated solutions. But for now, this can already help you free out a lot of time. Just please understand the following before taking the course:

I will be using paid services here, you can't make these things work for free.
Some parts are very technical but totally doable. There is no coding involved.
There might be glitches. You'll need to look for solutions and I'll try to help where I can.

So, as an Airbnb host, if you feel concerned by the problems I'm mentioning here, don't hesitate to take this course!

Who this course is for:

Airbnb hosts or managers with multiple listings
Airbnb hosts who want to automate most of their Airbnb business

Course content

6 sections • 48 lectures

Introduction 2 lectures

Introduction to the course: what is automated and what is not Preview 08:11

Download and print this Airbnb Automation Checklist Preview 00:10

Technical: Automatic Bookkeeping 17 lectures

Introduction to automatic bookkeeping Preview 04:51

In this section we're going to build an automated system that takes booking data from Airbnb and inputs it inside a Google Sheet file. Then, inside the sheet itself, you can apply all kinds of custom formulas that your business needs.

Download the Written Recap of this Section for convenience Preview 00:31

Introduction to the Airbnb data source template to use as a basis Preview 01:52

Creating a Zapier Parser mailbox Preview 03:02

Creating a forwarding rule from Outlook or Gmail Preview 07:39

Tagging data in Zapier email parser Preview 05:13

Creating a Google Sheet and Setting a Trigger in Zapier Preview 03:53

Setting an action in Zapier to copy data to a Google Sheet Preview 05:57

Zapier sequence recap Preview 03:25

Adding the forgotten "Nights" field Preview 02:32

Cleaning the source variables to get the right date format Preview 08:19

Hidden character copy Preview 00:02

Google sheets: Settings of the spreadsheet Preview 04:22

Google sheets: Calculating the total sum per month Preview 07:05

Google sheets: Calculating a number of cleaning times Preview 01:45

Google sheets: Creating custom formulas according to your business needs Preview 05:07

Formulas Recap Preview 00:59

Technical: Auto check-out date SMS notifications for housekeepers (Android only) 6 lectures

Introduction to the Automatic SMS notifications for the cleaning crew Preview 06:52

In this section we're going to build a system that sends automated SMS messages to your cleaning crew notifiying them about the next check-out dates. The messages will be sent directly from an Android phone as if you sent them yourself.