What renting through temporada leaves you
Two things, both earned by facts: reputation, shown on your profile and on the home's page, and night credits, swapped for nights hosts open to the program. Neither is money.
Reputation Points
Earned for a stay that closes with every step done, for writing a review, and more if it's long or has photos. The host earns more if the home has a valid verification.
Never earned for the rating you give or the tone of what you write. A one-star and a five-star review, same length and same photos, are worth exactly the same. An automated test in our code verifies it.
Points give you a level, shown as a label on the profile and the listing. It gives no discounts and no payment priority.
Night Credits
One night of a stay closed with every step done leaves one credit, whatever the home is worth. Credits take nights hosts publish: two or three single nights, no money involved.
Credits expire after 18 months. The ones closest to expiring are always spent first, and your panel tells you how many expire soon.
Per season: up to 3 nights in one stay, 6 in total, and only once per home.
Cancel 7 days ahead or more and you get them all back. With less notice, 1 is kept. Don't show up and you lose them.
Discounts with and without credits
When a host sets a discount they define one maximum, and two prices come out of it: the maximum by spending a credit, and 5 points less without it. Both are always shown, no asterisks.
Discounts never stack beyond 30% of the published price, and we never show a previous price that wasn't actually live.
On the host's side
Opening two or three nights to the program fills dates that were probably going to stay empty, with a real stay: check-in code, review and reputation. It's per home and you can switch it off whenever.
And if you hire services, you can pay part of them by giving nights. It's a perk for those who already hire: it unlocks with confirmed payment number 5.
What makes you lose it all
Faking stays or swaps to pile up credits breaks the program for everyone. When a case is confirmed —by a person, not an algorithm— everyone involved loses all their points and credits and their swaps are voided. The record stands and can be appealed.