Cleaning costs per unit and where they land in your P&L
Cleaning is the second-largest cost in a furnished building after the building itself, and almost nobody knows what it costs per door. The platform knows, because every tick has a unit, a time and a name.
How it is attributed
Labour. A cleaner's pay for the month (from payroll, or a figure you enter on their record) is shared across the units she worked in, by time in each unit where the ticks give it, otherwise by visits. Common areas take their share too. Supplies. Stock used in the unit at cost, from the cleaner's "used stock" line. Changeovers and turnovers. Jobs paid per job are charged at that rate to the unit they were for. Contracted cleaning — an agency invoice — is a general expense split across units by the place's rule, unless you record it against specific units.
Where it shows
The unit's P&L row, under Cleaning. The housekeeping report, as cost per unit and cost per task, this month and the trend. The cleaner's scorecard, as cost per task. The Airbnb page, per stay.
What to do with it
A unit whose cleaning cost is double the building's average is usually a tenant who asks for extras or a layout that takes longer; both are pricing conversations. A building whose cost per task is rising with flat task counts is a pay rise or a supply price rise — the report separates them. A short-stay unit whose changeover cost exceeds 20% of its nightly rate needs a higher minimum stay.
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