Earn with Hostbnb
Start earning from the experiences and services your guests already use
Guests ask you where to eat, what to book, and how to get to the airport. Recommend trusted local partners on your Hostbnb guest page and keep 70% of every commission — your guest never pays more.
Free on every plan · No extra fee · You approve every partner
70%
of every commission is yours
Free
included on every plan, no add-on
No markup
your guest pays the normal price
Monthly
payouts once the service is complete
What could your guest page earn?
Move the sliders to match your listings. The number is your share only — after Hostbnb's 30%.
Estimate your earnings
Across all your listings.
A tour, a transfer, luggage storage — anything through a partner.
A group day tour is often the biggest line.
Your estimated share
$25/ month
≈ $300 a year, on top of your nightly rate
Assumes a 15% commission (mid-range for tours) and your 70% share. An illustration, not a promise: real earnings depend on your partners, your city and your guests.
Build your Hostbnb page in three steps
Set it up once. After that it runs itself.
Create your free guest page
Check-in, Wi-Fi, house rules and your local picks on one page, with an AI concierge that answers guests in their own language.
See the walkthrough
Add the experiences guests book
Turn on tours, airport transfers and luggage storage near you, or invite a business you already send guests to. Nothing appears until you approve it.
Set up a partner
Share it — and get paid monthly
Send the link before arrival or leave the QR code in the unit. Completed bookings confirm after the refund window and land in your monthly payout.
How commissions work
A better stay is what makes the income work
Guests don't want ads. They want to know what's good nearby from someone who lives there — and to book it without opening five apps. That's what earns the five-star review, and the commission follows.
- In their own languageThe page and the concierge answer in the guest's language, day or night.
- Picks they can trustYour own recommendations first, partners clearly labeled, ranked by relevance — not by who pays most.
- Book in a tapTours, airport pickups and luggage drops straight from the page, at the business's normal price.
- Fewer messages for youThe questions you answer every stay are answered before they're asked.
What your guests are already asking for
We're starting where attribution is cleanest and the ticket values are highest, then expanding.
Tours & activities
12–25% commission
Luggage storage & delivery
10–20% commission
Airport transfers
10–20% commission
Salons, spas & beauty
10–20% commission
Bike & car rental
8–15% commission
Restaurants
¥300–¥1,000 per completed visit
Cafés & bars
¥100–¥500 per completed visit
Retail & souvenirs
5–15% commission
Coworking & gyms
10–25% commission
Photography & local services
10–20% commission
Cleaning & laundry
10–20% commission
The money, plainly
You keep 70% of the commission
A business pays a commission when your guest actually becomes a customer. You take 70%, Hostbnb takes 30%. It's a split of the commission, never of what your guest paid — and your guest never pays more for coming through you.
Worked example
- Guest books a ¥20,000 tour.
- Operator pays a 15% commission: ¥3,000.
- You receive ¥2,100. Hostbnb receives ¥900.
Paid when the guest is served
Nothing is payable the moment a guest taps a link. A commission confirms only after your guest completes the service and the refund window closes, so what you see as confirmed is money that can't evaporate.
- Clicks, bookings and redemptions per partner
- Pending vs. confirmed earnings, kept apart
- Monthly payout — or credit it against your Hostbnb invoice
- A live “subscription covered by earnings” bar
These are questions you are already answering
Our things-to-do pages show what travellers actually book in each city — tours, day trips, tickets and transfers. Every one of those is a booking your guest makes anyway, and a channel a local partner will pay you to send.
Your recommendations stay yours
A recommendation a guest can't trust is worth nothing to anyone — not to the guest, not to the business, and certainly not to you. So the product keeps four things visibly apart:
- Host recommendation — Personally selected by you. No commercial relationship.
- Nearby option — Surfaced by relevance. No commercial relationship.
- Partner offer — Pays a referral commission — and says so, on every card.
- Sponsored — Paid placement, clearly labeled as such.
Ranking runs on distance, availability, guest language, ratings, your approval and relevance to what the guest asked. Payment is one signal among many and can never be the only one. Every paying relationship is disclosed in the guest's own language, as Japanese advertising rules require.
Questions hosts ask
- Does it cost anything to join?
- No. Partner marketplace access is included on every Hostbnb plan, including the free plan. There is no partnerships add-on and no extra fee — Hostbnb earns only when you do.
- How much do I earn?
- You keep 70% of the commission a business pays; Hostbnb keeps 30%. That is a split of the commission, never of what your guest paid. On a ¥20,000 tour paying a 15% commission (¥3,000), you receive ¥2,100.
- Is this like an Airbnb affiliate program?
- It works for hosts the way an affiliate program works for publishers — you recommend, a guest books, you earn a commission — but it runs on your own Hostbnb guest page rather than on Airbnb, and it works the same for guests who booked on Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo or direct.
- When do I get paid?
- A commission is confirmed once your guest has completed the service and the provider's refund window has closed — typically seven days. Confirmed earnings are paid out monthly, or credited against your Hostbnb invoice if you prefer.
- What do my guests get out of it?
- One page with everything for their stay — check-in, Wi-Fi, house rules, and local picks from someone who actually lives there — in their own language, with tours, transfers and services they can book in a tap. They pay the business's normal price; coming through you never costs them more.
- Do my guests know a recommendation pays a commission?
- Yes, always. Partner offers are labeled as partner offers, and sponsored placements as sponsored, in the guest's own language. Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency requires an advertising relationship to be recognizable, and hiding one would cost you the trust that makes your recommendations worth anything.
- Do partners replace my own recommendations?
- No. Your personal picks stay their own section on the guest page. Partner offers sit separately below them, ranked by distance, availability, language, ratings and your approval — never by payment alone. You choose every partner that appears.
- Can I partner with a business I already recommend?
- That's the point. Invite them from your dashboard and we'll set up the offer page, QR code, tracking, billing and monthly payout. Most hosts already have these relationships informally; this makes them trackable and paid.
- Who does my guest pay?
- The business, or the booking platform it already uses. Hostbnb is the referral layer — we don't sell the tour, collect the money, or become the travel agent.
Want the long version? Read how to earn more as a host without raising your rates.
Better stays for your guests. More income for you.
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