Co-host on Airbnb: how to add one, what permissions they have, how they are paid and why it does not change your licence holder

Short answer: a co-host is a person (a relative, a neighbour or a manager) who gets into your Airbnb listing from their own account to help you run it, with one of three permission levels: Full access, Calendar and messaging access or Calendar access. You can have up to 10 per listing and assign them a share of each payout. The listing remains yours: reviews only appear on your profile, Superhost can only be awarded to you, and you are answerable to Airbnb for what the co-host does. And in Andalusia, adding a co-host on Airbnb does not change who the licence holder is in the Tourism Registry: that is done with the Junta.

How do you add a co-host?

From the computer or the app (October 2026):

1. Go to Listings and choose the listing.
2. In the listing editor, go to Your space and then to Co-hosts.
3. Click Invite a co-host.
4. Enter their country or region and their phone number or email address, and click Next.
5. Choose the permissions and click Next.
6. If you like, add a note; review and click Send.

The co-host has to accept the invitation, and for that they must have an Airbnb account and verify their identity. Only the listing owner can invite someone to several listings at once (and with the same permissions on all of them). The maximum is 10 co-hosts per listing.

What permissions can they be given?

The names are Airbnb's (October 2026):

No co-host, not even one with full access, can see or change your payout method or your tax information, or set their own payout. Permissions can be changed whenever you like in Co-hosts and do not alter the agreed payout. Co-hosts added before 3 May 2023 have full access by default.

A co-host with full access can be the Primary Host: the one who appears as host on the listing page and whom guests talk to. There can only be one.

Can they be paid through Airbnb?

Yes: in Co-hosts you choose the person, go to Payouts and choose one of these four options, which the co-host has 14 days to confirm:

• Cleaning fee: they take what you have set as cleaning.
• Cleaning fee plus percentage: the cleaning plus a percentage of the booking without the cleaning.
• Percentage: a percentage of each booking, with or without the cleaning.
• Fixed amount per booking.

How it works (October 2026):

• Only the listing owner can set it up.
• It is calculated on what you would receive from that booking, with Airbnb's service fee already deducted (Airbnb's commissions).
• The co-host gets paid after the guest's check-in, like you (when Airbnb pays). Co-hosts are paid first and you receive what is left; if their payouts exceed what the booking leaves, they may receive less than expected and you, nothing.
• If you change the payout, it only applies to bookings that start after the co-host accepts the new one.
• Only stays are shared: not damage reimbursements or Resolution Centre payments.
• The co-host needs their own payout method and, if asked, has to verify their identity and provide their tax information.
• There are limitations depending on where you, the co-host and the flat are: outside the US and the EU only one co-host per listing can be paid, and for flats in Mexico it is not possible. For Spain, Airbnb lists no limitation (October 2026).

An important tax detail: Airbnb says that co-host payouts do not change the amount reported for the owner for tax purposes. Your tax document shows the total of the booking and the co-host receives another with their share. What Airbnb reports about you to the tax office is explained in Booking and Airbnb report to the tax office.

Who keeps the reviews and Superhost status?

The listing owner. Airbnb puts it plainly: guest reviews are only shown on the owner's profile, even if the Primary Host is a co-host, and they do not appear on the co-host's profile or count towards their Superhost status. The Superhost badge is not awarded to co-hosts: only listing owners can qualify, and listings on which someone is a co-host do not count for them. That is why, if the listing is in your name and you change manager, the reviews and the badge do not leave with the manager. We go into detail in Superhost and Guest favourite.

How do you remove a co-host?

1. Listings, choose the listing and go to Co-hosts.
2. Select the person and click Remove co-host.
3. If you like, add a note and confirm with Yes, remove.

The owner and co-hosts with full access can do it. From that moment the co-host cannot touch the listing, see the calendar or message guests, and they stop receiving a payout for bookings that start afterwards. If they were the Primary Host, the owner becomes it again. You remain answerable for current and future bookings, including those they accepted, and their pending damage claims pass to your name. Before removing a manager, agree how they get paid for the bookings they have already sold (changing manager).

Does adding a co-host change the licence holder?

No. They are two different worlds:

• Airbnb decides who manages the listing and who gets paid. It is a commercial agreement.
• The Andalusian Tourism Registry decides who is the holder of the operation of the home (the one answerable to the Junta and listed next to the VFT/VUT code). The Junta says that, if the accommodation services (such as handing over keys or receiving guests) are provided by a third party, that third party must be listed as the operating company.

So if your manager comes in as co-host and also provides those services, the change of holder is not done on Airbnb: the company notifies the Junta with the notification form of procedure 7267, with a digital certificate, and the licence code does not change. You have it in Who holds the listing and the licence?, Can I run a flat if I am not the owner? and Changing the licence holder.

What does a manager do with this?

On Airbnb, the listing stays in the owner's account and the manager comes in as co-host. The Superhost badge belongs to the owner's profile and, if the owner leaves the manager, they keep the listings, the reviews and the photos. At TGV the commission is 15 % + VAT on what the owner receives from the platforms, not counting cleaning, which the guest pays separately.