Resources for hospitality teams
Explore practical Pricing and Revenue guides for vacation rental hosts and property managers.
Tax usually attaches to the accommodation, not to the commission. Where a platform charges tax on its own service fee, that line sits on top of the commission, varies by jurisdiction, and almost never appears in the rate you set.
Automated pricing reads pace, availability and comparable rates. It can't read the wedding down the road or the room you've taken out of service. The overrides worth keeping are tied to a reason you can name, with an end date set at the same moment.
The gap between a flexible rate and a non-refundable one is the price of an option, not a discount. It holds only if it's wider than the cancellations you actually absorb. How to count your own share, size the gap, and know when to withdraw the lower rate.
A channel's headline commission describes one line, not your cost. The base it's charged on, the payment handling beside it and the optional programme fees all move the answer. Here's how to read the structure and compare four channels on net.
Working backwards from what actually lands in the account is the only way to see the real floor, because the rate on your listing page is the last stop in the chain, not the first. Here are the deductions in the order they bite and a four-step way to rebuild the number.
The first month's rate isn't a guess about demand. It's a number you should be able to walk through line by line six weeks later, when the only evidence left is what actually booked. Here's the cost floor, the three lines, and the day-thirty review.
A guest leaves on day two of five and asks for the rest back. The answer isn't a mood, it's a rule you wrote before the booking, and it needs four parts: which nights are chargeable, how the gap is valued, which costs survive, and when the money moves.
The price on the listing and the money in your account are two different figures, and the gap isn't an error. Currency display, conversion and payout each happen at a different moment. Here's where the number changes, what lands, and how to reconcile a month without chasing a difference that was never one.
Change a rate and the terms attached to it move too. A cancellation policy written against a price breaks the moment the price changes; one written against the plan survives. Here's how to anchor the wording, keep it readable, and verify it after every edit.
Percentage fees are charged on a base, and that base is rarely just the nightly rate. The cleaning fee usually sits inside it, which means part of what you charge to cover turnover goes straight back out. Here's how the base is built, how to read a payout line, and how to set rates from the number you actually keep.