Where can I find my Airbnb receipts and invoices?

Sign in at airbnb.com and open Trips. Each past reservation has its own detail page with a payment breakdown, a Get receipt link, and, in countries where Airbnb is required to issue one, a Get invoice link that generates the VAT PDF. There is no unified invoice history page across all your stays. You click into each reservation separately. Airbnb for Work stays are the exception and roll up into the company admin console for the enrolled organization.

Is the Airbnb confirmation email my invoice?

No. The confirmation email you get after booking is a reservation confirmation with the trip details and estimated total. It is not a tax invoice and most accountants will not accept it for VAT recovery or strict expense policies. The payment receipt lives inside the reservation on airbnb.com once the stay is confirmed, and the VAT invoice (where applicable) has to be generated separately from the same page. Treat the confirmation email only as proof that the booking was made.

What is the difference between an Airbnb receipt and an Airbnb VAT invoice?

A receipt is a payment summary that shows what was charged to your card and how it breaks down across nightly rate, cleaning fee, service fee, and tax. Every paid reservation produces one. A VAT invoice is a formal tax document compliant with the local tax rules of the country of stay, with a proper invoice number, seller details, and explicit tax lines. Airbnb issues VAT invoices itself in many EU countries and some others. In markets where it does not, the host is the seller of accommodation services and issues the stay invoice instead, and Airbnb only invoices its own service fee.

Does Airbnb for Work billing work differently from personal travel?

Yes. Airbnb for Work is a separate program where a company enrolls, admins manage employee access, and invoicing consolidates at the company level instead of sitting inside each traveler's personal Trips. Invoices for Work stays are issued to the company by Airbnb Ireland UC (or the local Airbnb entity) and land in the admin console at airbnb.com/work. If your company is enrolled, the admin usually has a cleaner month-end view than any individual employee does. Invoices still respect country-of-stay VAT rules, so a single Work program can produce invoices under many different tax rates in the same month.

Which country's VAT appears on an Airbnb invoice?

The country where the stay takes place, not Airbnb's head office country. Airbnb's European operating entity is Airbnb Ireland UC, but accommodation VAT follows the destination. A three-night stay in Spain carries Spanish VAT. A week in Italy carries Italian VAT. A city break in Paris carries French VAT. This also applies to the service fee in most EU countries. One employee on a multi-country itinerary can generate five invoices with five different tax rates in a single week, which is one of the reasons mid-size travel programs outgrow manual receipt chasing quickly.

How does Airbnb invoice a non-refundable cleaning fee when I cancelled?

When a reservation is cancelled but a non-refundable portion such as a cleaning fee or a strict-policy nightly charge still applies, Airbnb settles the amount and issues a receipt or invoice for the portion actually charged, usually alongside the cancellation confirmation. The document looks similar to a normal stay receipt but the line items reflect the retained fees rather than a delivered stay. For VAT purposes this matters, because some jurisdictions treat cancellation fees as compensation (no VAT) and others treat them as consideration for a service (VAT applies). Keep both the cancellation confirmation and the receipt together so your accountant can apply the right treatment.

Can I bulk download all my Airbnb invoices for a tax year?

Not from the personal Trips interface. Each reservation is a separate PDF click, and there is no "export all receipts" option for individual travelers. Airbnb for Work admins have a better story with period reports at the company level, but even that produces one document per stay in most layouts. For any finance team with meaningful travel volume, clicking through a year of Trips is a real time cost, which is the gap Inbox Ledger fills by picking receipts out of the confirmation mailbox automatically.

Why does my Airbnb invoice come from Airbnb Ireland UC?

Airbnb Ireland UC is the legal entity that operates Airbnb in Europe and in many other markets outside the United States. It is the seller on the platform-fee invoice and, where Airbnb issues the VAT invoice for the accommodation itself, it is the seller on that document too. In the US, the entity is Airbnb, Inc. In some markets, local Airbnb entities issue invoices directly. The practical implication is that your books should record the actual issuing entity printed on the PDF, not just "Airbnb," because VAT number and tax treatment follow the legal entity.

Can my accountant access Airbnb receipts directly?

There is no clean accountant-only role on a personal Airbnb account. The practical options are to enroll in Airbnb for Work and add the bookkeeper as an authorized admin user, or to forward each receipt PDF as it arrives. Airbnb for Work is the right answer for any company with more than occasional travel. For individual travelers, forwarding the confirmation and receipt emails into a capture tool is usually faster than trying to share login access, and it keeps a clean audit trail outside the platform.

I booked a stay in one country but paid in another currency. What does the invoice show?

Airbnb displays prices and charges your card in the currency you chose, but the tax invoice reflects the country of stay, which may be a different currency from the payment. The receipt will usually show the charged amount in your card currency and the tax calculation in the country-of-stay currency, with the exchange rate Airbnb used at the time of booking. For expense reimbursement this can create a small gap between what the card statement shows and what the invoice shows. Use the invoice total for VAT purposes and the card statement for cash-flow reconciliation.

I am a host receiving payouts. Where are my invoices?

Host-side billing is a completely separate area of Airbnb that covers payouts, host service fee invoices from Airbnb, and occupancy tax remittance. It is not the same as guest Trips receipts and is not covered on this page, which is focused on guests who need documentation for travel expenses. Hosts should work from the Hosting menu and the Earnings dashboard, which have their own monthly statements and their own invoice logic depending on the host entity type and country.

How long does Airbnb keep old receipts available?

Trips history generally stays accessible for a long time on the traveler's account, but Airbnb does not publish a guaranteed retention period and receipts for old stays occasionally become harder to regenerate, especially after account changes or platform migrations. Most tax authorities require multi-year retention of invoices, which is usually longer than any travel platform formally commits to. Treat the airbnb.com Trips tab as a working archive and keep downloaded PDFs in your own accounting system for the full period your jurisdiction requires.

How to get Airbnb invoices

Step-by-step guide to downloading your Airbnb billing documents.

Last verified: 2026-04-24

Step-by-step: download invoices from Airbnb

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Open Trips and find the reservation
Sign in at airbnb.com and click Trips in the top navigation. Past and upcoming stays are split into tabs. Open the reservation you need documentation for and scroll to the payment details section. What lives here is a receipt, not a tax invoice. It shows the total charged to your card, broken down by nightly rate, cleaning fee, service fee, and tax. For most personal travel this is enough. For company reimbursement or VAT recovery it usually is not, and the distinction matters more than Airbnb's UI makes obvious.
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Request a VAT invoice for stays that require one
On the reservation detail page, look for Get receipt or Get invoice under the payment section. For stays in countries where Airbnb is required to issue a VAT invoice (most of the EU, UK, and some other jurisdictions), you can generate the tax invoice PDF directly from this screen. The tax applied reflects the country of stay, not Airbnb's Dublin head office. A week in France carries French VAT. A weekend in Portugal carries Portuguese VAT. For countries where Airbnb only acts as a booking platform and the host issues the tax document, this link produces a payment receipt instead and you need to ask the host directly for an invoice.
3
For business travelers, use Airbnb for Work
Airbnb for Work is a separate program for companies that want centralized billing and admin oversight across employee stays. If your company is enrolled, your admin manages the Work profile at airbnb.com/work, and invoices roll up into a company billing stream rather than sitting inside each individual traveler's Trips. Invoices for Work-linked stays are issued to the company by Airbnb Ireland UC or the local Airbnb legal entity and land in the admin's console, not necessarily in the employee's Trips tab. If you are an employee, check whether your company's travel policy has already connected you to Work before you start chasing per-reservation PDFs.
4
Deal with cleaning fees and cancellations separately
Cleaning fees, service fees, and nightly rates appear as line items on the same receipt, but they are not always treated identically for tax. Non-refundable cleaning fees charged after a cancellation produce their own settlement entry, sometimes under a different line, sometimes with a different VAT treatment than the original booking. When a reservation is cancelled, Airbnb issues a cancellation confirmation and, where applicable, a refund receipt or a credit note. Always save both the original receipt and the cancellation document together, because tax authorities care about the net position, not just the last PDF.
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Download every PDF and store it outside Airbnb
Save the generated PDF from the reservation page. Rename with a consistent pattern such as date-city-host-amount and keep travel receipts in one folder and VAT invoices in another. Airbnb's Trips archive stretches a long way back but does not publish a guaranteed retention period, and payment receipts for old stays occasionally become harder to regenerate after long gaps. Treat the portal as a working copy and your own folder as the record.

About Airbnb billing

Airbnb is two billing stories sharing one brand. Personal travelers find a payment receipt inside each Trips reservation and usually assume that is the invoice. It is not. Airbnb for Work is a separate program where the company is the customer, invoices roll up into an admin console, and the employee's Trips tab is not the source of truth.

The confusion costs finance teams real time. Traveler forwards a confirmation email. Accountant asks for a VAT invoice. Traveler opens Trips, downloads the receipt, sends it on. Accountant asks again, with the company name on it this time. Round two begins.

Airbnb accommodation VAT follows the country of stay, not the country where Airbnb is headquartered. A single week of travel across three European countries can produce three invoices with three different VAT rates, all issued by Airbnb Ireland UC but each reflecting the local tax rules of the destination. Booking in the wrong name once at the start of the trip means every one of those invoices goes out with the wrong legal entity on it.

About Airbnb

Airbnb is an online marketplace for short-term accommodation and experiences, founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco. It lists homes, apartments, and rooms in more than 220 countries. Outside the United States, the operating entity is Airbnb Ireland UC in Dublin, which is the seller of record on most European platform-fee invoices and on accommodation VAT invoices where Airbnb is required to issue them. Alongside the consumer product, Airbnb runs Airbnb for Work, a managed program for companies that want centralized billing and admin oversight across employee stays. Host-side billing is a separate track not covered here.

Manual vs automated

Manual

Sign in to airbnb.com and open Trips
Click into each past reservation one by one
Download the payment receipt PDF
Click Get invoice separately for countries that require VAT documents
Chase the host directly for stay invoices in markets where Airbnb does not issue them
Reconcile confirmation emails against the actual receipts

Automated with Inbox Ledger

Forward Airbnb confirmation emails to your Inbox Ledger address
Receipts and VAT invoices extracted automatically per stay
Tagged by country of stay and tax rate
Export to Drive, Sheets, or your accounting system

Why people stop doing this by hand

One weekend trip a quarter, one country, one personal card: Trips is fine. A sales team flying across Europe every week turns that into a different shape quickly. Every stay is a separate PDF click, some countries produce a VAT invoice and some do not, cleaning fees after a cancellation settle differently from the original booking, and the confirmation email that everyone treats as the invoice is not actually the invoice.

Airbnb for Work consolidates invoicing at the admin level for enrolled companies but does not solve the country-of-stay VAT rate problem, because that is a tax rule rather than a platform one. A single month of Work travel across five European countries still produces five VAT rates, each correctly issued, all needing to land in the books cleanly.

The per-reservation workflow also breaks down around cancellations. A non-refundable cleaning fee on a stay that never happened is easy to miss entirely, because no check-in email reminds anyone the transaction existed. The charge hits the card, the receipt sits quietly in Trips, and nobody opens it until bank reconciliation flags the gap.

Inbox Ledger treats Airbnb the way finance actually sees it: a stream of confirmation emails, receipts, and occasional VAT invoice PDFs landing in a mailbox. Forward the emails or connect the mailbox that already receives them, and receipts are picked out, tagged by country of stay, and separated from cancellation confirmations. Airbnb for Work admins can point the company billing address at the same pipeline, so the consolidated stream stays consolidated after it leaves Airbnb.

Next step

Occasional personal travel with no VAT recovery: Trips is enough. Company travel, multi-country stays, Airbnb for Work, or any workflow where a missing cleaning-fee receipt becomes a reconciliation problem: connect Airbnb to Inbox Ledger once and stop treating the confirmation email as the invoice.

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Where to look in the dashboard

Trips (airbnb.com/trips) lists every past and upcoming reservation and is where receipts live per-stay
The reservation detail page shows Get receipt or Get invoice once the stay is confirmed, depending on the country of stay
Account settings → Taxes is where to save company name, address, and VAT number for future receipts
Airbnb for Work (airbnb.com/work) is a separate admin surface for companies with centralized billing and employee travel oversight
Host-side billing (hosts receiving payouts) lives in a completely different part of Airbnb and is not covered here

Before you start — quick checklist

The document is a VAT invoice where the country of stay requires one, not just the payment receipt from the Trips page
Tax on the PDF reflects the country of stay, not Ireland (Airbnb Ireland UC is the issuing entity but VAT follows the destination)
Your company legal name and tax ID appear on the invoice, not just the traveler's personal name
Cleaning fees, service fees, and nightly charges are each visible as separate line items on the document
For cancelled bookings, both the original receipt and the cancellation or refund confirmation are archived together
Airbnb for Work stays are recorded in the company admin console, not only in the employee's personal Trips tab

Pro tips

Add your company name, billing address, and VAT number to the Airbnb account profile before booking. Airbnb uses whatever is on the profile at the time of reservation to generate the invoice. Adding details later does not backdate old PDFs, and support can only reissue inside a limited window.
The receipt in Trips and a proper VAT invoice are not always the same document. Half the missing-invoice tickets in finance teams come from travelers assuming the payment breakdown screen is the tax document, when it is only a summary for personal records.
In countries where Airbnb does not issue a VAT invoice itself, the host is the legal seller of accommodation services and must provide any tax invoice you need. Airbnb will always send a platform-fee invoice for its own service fee, but the nightly rate invoice comes from the host in those markets.
Non-refundable cleaning fees after a cancelled stay often confuse bookkeeping. The charge happens, the accommodation did not, and the line looks different from a normal stay. Keep the cancellation policy screenshot with the receipt so the tax treatment is defensible.
Airbnb for Work admins can pull consolidated reports for a billing period rather than one PDF per stay. If your company has even a handful of trips a quarter and is still using personal accounts, turning on Work removes most of the per-reservation chase and fixes the company-name-on-invoice problem at the same time.
Airbnb sometimes issues a second PDF for its own service fee as a separate invoice from the accommodation receipt, especially in jurisdictions where the platform-fee and the stay are billed under different VAT logic. Check the Trips detail page for both documents before you close the expense report.

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How to get Airbnb invoices

Step-by-step: download invoices from Airbnb

Open Trips and find the reservation

Request a VAT invoice for stays that require one

For business travelers, use Airbnb for Work

Deal with cleaning fees and cancellations separately

Download every PDF and store it outside Airbnb

About Airbnb billing

About Airbnb