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Airbnb and short stays3 min read

Short-stay income in your P&L next to rent

The question every host with a building eventually asks is whether the Airbnb units actually beat the leases after the cleaning and the coffee. The P&L by model answers it per unit, per month, from the ledger.

By the end of this pageYou will be able to read the P&L by model, know what each row is built from, and judge a unit's model on net per unit rather than income.
On this pageThe viewWhat each row is built fromOccupancy, two waysSeasons
Leased vs short-stay, per unit — click a rowInteractive
Harbour Ridge · P&L · August · by modelLEASED (45)SHORT-STAY (3)PER UNIT · LEASEDPER UNIT · SHORT-STAYIncome₱ 712,400₱ 151,200₱ 15,831₱ 50,400Cleaning₱ 38,000₱ 8,550₱ 844₱ 2,850Consumables & linen₱ 4,100₱ 11,020₱ 91₱ 3,673Direct costs₱ 19,080₱ 3,200₱ 424₱ 1,067Share of general₱ 187,500₱ 12,500₱ 4,167₱ 4,167Net₱ 463,720₱ 115,930₱ 10,305₱ 38,643Occupancy96%69%

The view

Money › P&L › By model splits the building into leased and short-stay columns with per-unit figures beside each. Cleaning and consumables get their own rows because that is where the models differ; everything else is the standard P&L. Switch to per-unit rows to see 2A next to 2B directly.

What each row is built from

Income: invoices or payments for leased units; payouts or checkouts for short-stay, by your basis. Cleaning: the labour share of rota cleans for leased; changeover jobs at their rate for short-stay. Consumables and linen: kit and linen movements tagged to stays. Direct costs: expenses on the unit. Share of general: the place's split rule, applied to every unit regardless of model. Net: income minus all of it.

Occupancy, two ways

A leased unit is occupied or not; a short-stay unit sells a share of its nights. The view shows each model's own measure. Comparing a 96% leased occupancy to a 69% short-stay one is not a like-for-like; comparing net per unit is.

Seasons

One month proves nothing for short stays. The trend view plots net per unit by model across twelve months; the short-stay line is jagged and the leased line is flat, and the question is whether the area under one exceeds the other. Add the low-season months before deciding to flip a unit.

Platform fees. Airbnb's host fee is netted from the payout; Booking.com's commission is invoiced separately. Record the second as an expense on the unit so both models' income is comparable. The payout CSV import does this for you where the export includes it.

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