Airbnb Now Lets Users Pay Less Up Front For Bookings

Jordan Crook, TechCrunch
Tue, 01/16/2018 - 1:00am

Airbnb has today announced a new feature that will help users manage their payments on the platform. The feature, aptly albeit unimaginatively named Pay Less Up Front, lets users pay for a part of their trip upon booking and the rest near the time of check-in. Before now, Airbnb users had to pay 100 percent of their booking up front.

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