For a few reasons, booking a stay through Airbnb can be difficult. The most significant of these is the fact that it’s not always simple to know from a quick scan how much you’ll pay for your vacation rental because the cleaning fee or security deposit could not be disclosed until after you click on a listing. But at last, Airbnb plans to increase pricing transparency.

The firm will start letting users see the whole cost of a stay in search results, as well as on the map, price filter, and listings pages, according to CEO Brian Chesky’s tweet from last month. The whole cost, including any savings and Airbnb’s service fee, will still be broken out for your review. Additionally, according to Chesky, Airbnb’s ranking system would give overall pricing a higher priority than nightly price. According to Chesky, the best-priced homes with the highest quality will appear higher in search results. However, there is one negative. Taxes are still not included in the price that is displayed in search results and on the map. Furthermore, given that many hotel booking websites display the whole price with taxes included in search results, it would be beneficial to see it at the jump as well. Since prices are frequently published before taxes in the US, Chesky noted, “Our thinking was that we should follow this norm.”

In other places, Chesky stated that Airbnb would give hosts more tools for pricing and promotions. He said that in order to stay competitive, hosts need a better grasp of what users actually spend and what they should charge. Users shouldn’t be required to perform “unreasonable” checkout duties like vacuuming or stripping the bedding, according to Chesky. He said that straightforward requirements for things like turning out the lights, tossing food in the garbage, and locking the doors are fair and that hosts should make them known when a reservation is made.