Category Archives: General

General News that applies to all B&Bs

B&B Owners Admin Panel

By | October 21, 2015

I would ask all members to check the “My-BnB” admin panel regularly. Bookings are either commission free or low cost and many are being ignored or declined in favour of the more expensive OTA bookings. Please logon to https://my-bnb.com regularly to ensure you process the lowest cost bookings in the industry. Send an email to… Read More »

New Booking & Room Availability System Now Available

By | September 30, 2015

Members can now switch on an alternative room allocation & booking system from within the My-BNB admin panel. Top Menu >> Website Options >> Room Allocation This system has a multitude of benefits Shows you actual availability on your own website or webpage Allows 3rd party bookings (Booking.com, telephone….) to be added with a click… Read More »

Airbnb – the tax position in Ireland

By | August 13, 2015

IRELAND: Be warned, Airbnb are legally obliged to give details of hosts income to the Revenue Commissioners in Ireland. Airbnb had stated that income from renting rooms was NOT taxable under the “rent a room” tax relief scheme The Irish Revenue’s position is that the “rent a room” relief scheme is not open to Airbnb… Read More »

New Booking Engine with room availability

By | July 22, 2015

You can see a preview of our new booking engine that shows availability by room on our demo website. Click Here Please feel free to test this new system and give us your feedback. The back end will be available in you MY-B&B admin panel shortly with the following features:- Minimum Stay on each and… Read More »

Email Confirmations

By | June 26, 2015

We have received quite a bit of feedback recently about email confirmations not being received by guests and B&B Owners. I would stress that this is a problem that we have warned about for years. Due to extraordinary amounts of spam being sent, Internet Service Providers have to provide protection to their email users –… Read More »

B&B Owners Association

By | May 27, 2015

Looking after your interests The B&B Owners Association provides online marketing and booking services exclusively for B&Bs, Inns and Guesthouses. Using a collective marketing model, the price of managing and maintaining our members Internet presence is much reduced. Promotion worldwide on our directories, travel portals & regional websites Commission on bookings is as little as… Read More »