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How to add your Airbnb listing to Vrbo, step by step
To add an Airbnb listing to Vrbo, create the Vrbo account yourself, rebuild the listing for Vrbo's format, match your fees and policies, check the minimum stay and booking window, sync the calendars both ways, and then search for your own listing to confirm it appears.
Examples on this page use made-up homes and numbers to show the method. They are not client results.
Before you start: what to expect
Vrbo guests lean toward families and groups booking whole homes, often further ahead. For many hosts a second platform adds a modest number of nights rather than doubling bookings. One industry analysis found the average gain for an Airbnb-only host adding Vrbo was under one extra booked night a month. Large homes and holiday areas tend to do better than that.
Step 1: Create the owner account yourself
Identity checks, tax details and payout banking have to be done by the owner. Nobody else should enter these for you.
Step 2: Rebuild the listing
- Headline: lead with the features guests filter for, such as pet-friendly, hot tub or parking.
- Description: your Airbnb text is a starting point. Remove any mention of Airbnb.
- Rooms and beds: enter every bedroom and bed. Vrbo uses these in search filters.
- Amenities: tick them one by one; they do not import.
Step 3: Upload photos carefully
Use your original files. Vrbo can reject a photo that carries another travel site’s logo or watermark. Put your strongest wide shot first, since Vrbo shows large images in search.
Step 4: Match rates and fees
- Set the base rate, weekend rate and any seasonal prices.
- Enter your cleaning fee and pet fee. Vrbo can flag a listing when fees are a large share of the stay total, so check how they look on a short booking.
- Match the cancellation policy and house rules to Airbnb, so a guest gets the same terms on either site.
Step 5: Check the settings that hide listings
This is where new Vrbo listings go wrong.
- Minimum stay. Check the default and every date range. A 4-night minimum, for example, removes a listing from every weekend search. See Vrbo listing not showing in search.
- Booking window. How far ahead guests can book. A window of only 6 months hides you from guests who plan a year ahead.
- Advance notice. Use at least one day if you sync calendars, to cover the sync delay.
Step 6: Sync the calendars both ways
Import Airbnb’s calendar into Vrbo, and Vrbo’s into Airbnb, then test with a blocked night on each side. Full steps are in Listing on Airbnb and Vrbo without double bookings.
Step 7: Publish, wait, then search
A new listing can take a day or more to appear in search. After that, open a private window and search your city for a normal weekend with your guest count. If you are not there, go back to Step 5.
Keep the two in step
Calendars sync. Nothing else does. Whenever you change a price, a fee, a minimum stay or a house rule on one platform, change it on the other the same day.
If you would rather hand this over, Co-Hosting includes all seven steps at no extra charge.
Want this done for you?
With Co-Hosting, we add your home to Vrbo and keep both calendars in sync as part of the service. Or start with a free listing check.
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Rather have someone check it for you?
Send us your listing and get a written co-hosting proposal. Nothing to pay upfront: Airbnb pays our share only when you are booked.