Payments and pricing
Paying for a stay
Prices are in AZN. You pay Absolute, not the host at the door. The guest programme fee is shown before you confirm.
What the total is
The listing shows a nightly (or experience) rate in AZN. At checkout you see nights × rate, any cleaning, extras you ticked — a transfer, a table, a second experience — and the guest programme fee. That is the number you authorise.
Cleaning, if charged, is a separate line. It is not hidden in the night. Extras you did not tick are not added later at the door. If a host asks for a second cash payment, report it through the contact form.
The 15% programme fee
The guest programme fee is currently 15% of the stay or experience subtotal unless the page says otherwise. It is calculated on the nights, cleaning and extras on that reservation — the subtotal you see — not on a leftover gift-card balance.
A creator username can reduce what you pay on a first stay when it is valid. It does not change what the host receives for the nights. The fee line is still shown before you confirm.
How you pay
You pay Absolute, not the host at the door. Payment partners collect the charge. Absolute does not store full card numbers. The methods you can use appear at checkout.
You are charged when the reservation is confirmed. Follow what the checkout screen says. Prices stay in AZN. A pending request is not a finished charge until it becomes a reservation.
Gift cards and a creator username
Apply a gift card and a creator username before you confirm. A code entered after pay does not rewrite the charge. If the card covers only part of the total, you pay the rest as usual, including the guest programme fee on the stay subtotal.
Gift cards do not buy another gift card and they do not settle a damage or Resolution charge. More sits on the Gift cards article next to this page.
Receipts and refunds
You get a receipt for the booking. Ask us through the contact form if you need a company invoice line; we reply from info@abaz.az. Refunds, when the Cancellation policy or AbsoluteCover for guests allows them, go back to the same method in AZN.
Bank timing is the issuer’s, often several business days after we process the cancel. The 24-hour grace window, when it applies, is a full refund to that same method.
Do not pay off the platform
Do not pay the host outside Absolute Stays for the same nights. Off-platform payment can cancel the reservation and remove AbsoluteCover for guests. A “discount if you pay cash” is how cover dies.
Keep the conversation on Absolute Stays so the reservation file is complete. Paying for a stay is the number on Confirm and pay — nights, cleaning, extras, 15%, in AZN.
