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How-to • Home host

Payment verification for your host account

Do you host on Airbnb as a business? Read how to verify your professional host account. If you're not sure about your host status, learn more about determining how you host on Airbnb.

When you host or help with hosting on Airbnb, you may be asked to provide information such as your legal name, date of birth, or government ID for verification. We may request this information as part of our identity verification process and confirming these details may be required by law, including as part of a process called Know Your Customer (KYC). If anything you submit is incorrect or cannot be confirmed, your account permissions could be limited, and you may not be able to receive payouts.

If any of this information is required for your account, we'll let you know. You'll receive an email and notifications with instructions on how to provide what's needed.

KYC requirements

KYC is a regulatory requirement to help protect our community from fraud and to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. Nearly every large company licensed to process payments for individuals has to comply with KYC—in other words, we’re required to know who’s accessing the Airbnb account, and who’s getting paid.

Why this is important

If any information is incorrect, incomplete or out of date, your payouts may be interrupted until we can verify your account, and your account could even be flagged as potentially fraudulent.

How we use your information

Rest assured, we value your privacy and safety. When we ask for personal information, we take measures to protect it and we use the information you provide according to our Privacy Policy.

What’s required for KYC

When you start to host, and periodically throughout your time hosting on Airbnb, we'll reach out for information and updates to meet KYC requirements.

The exact information we request from you may vary by regional requirements. Typically, it includes:

  • Your full legal name: This is what appears on a government ID or official document. It may differ from your Airbnb profile name, like if you’ve added a preferred first or business name.
  • Your home address: This is the physical address where you live, which may differ from your Airbnb listing address(es). It’s used to confirm your identity and won’t be shown on your listing or shared with guests.
  • Your date of birth: You may have entered this elsewhere, but we still need to confirm it.
  • Your place of birth, citizenship, and/or nationality: These are required for KYC in certain regions.

Your government ID: You may also need to provide photos of a valid government ID as part of identity verification, but we may still need to confirm it for KYC.

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