I hate, hate , HATE the suggested prices by Airbnb (along with their harassing emails!)

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Yes, you can get them to pay cash but we don’t live on site so I kind of make up my own rules…
There is a really good discussion topic on this site.

New to booking.com and would love advice

Hello all, We are hosting an apartment in Oakland. We are listed on Air bnb, Booking and homeaway. I am not a fan of Bookng so far but we have almost this whole month booked thru them This banner sits right above our calendar: “Because we’re dedicated to being a safe platform for both customers and partners, we’ve temporarily disabled non-refundable and prepayment policies. As soon as we can give you access to them, we’ll let you know.” My question is when someone books the apartment thru Boo…

I do use Stripe.com and it’s pretty good and easy to use. I make sure guests have to enter their credit card details, cvc and address. Having CC details would be the only way to ensure you can charge them if they do cancel.