Net Per Night
The FolioWhat is left of a booking once everything has come off it, a night at a time.
A payout statement shows the commission and stops. The turn comes off later, the tax was handled by somebody else, and the cleaning fee was set once years ago — so nothing anywhere says what a night is worth.
The platform prints its commission on every payout. What it cannot print is what a turn costs this house, or which side of the occupancy tax the booking fell on — and between them those two decide most of what a night actually keeps.
About this tool
Net Per Night: what it solves
A platform’s commission is the same for every host on it, so a tool built on that number would be doing arithmetic the payout already shows you. The two figures that are the host’s own are what a turn costs this house and how the occupancy tax was handled, and both are invisible on every statement. Tax a platform collects on top and remits is not income at all — it never enters gross here and never enters what is kept — while tax the host collected is money they owe, and counting the first as revenue is the most common way this sum goes wrong. The finding is the cleaning fee against the turn. A fee is set once in a listing; a turn cost is worked out never, so the two have no relationship and the gap is invisible. Charge over the turn and the surplus is quietly subsidizing the nightly rate. Charge under it and the house is absorbing part of every turn, on every booking, with no line item anywhere saying so. Both directions are printed beside the net.
The commission is not the interesting number
Every host on the platform pays the same rate. It is on your payout statement, it is the same figure this month as last, and a tool built around it would be doing arithmetic the statement already did for you.
Two figures are yours and neither appears on any statement you receive: what a turn costs your house, and how the occupancy tax was handled.
The tax mistake, which is the common one
Tax the platform collects on top and remits is not your income. It never touched you. It should not appear in your gross and it should not appear in what you kept.
Tax you collected is money you owe. It is in your account and it is not yours.
Counting the first as revenue is the single most frequent way this sum goes wrong, and it goes wrong in a pleasant direction — your gross looks bigger and your margin looks better, on every booking, all year. Then the picture of the business you have been carrying around is not the business.
Both are handled explicitly here, as a choice you make rather than an assumption made for you.
The cleaning fee against the actual turn
This is the finding.
A cleaning fee is set once, in a listing, probably by looking at what other listings charge. A turn cost is worked out never. So the two numbers have no relationship to each other at all, and the gap between them is invisible in both directions.
Charge over your turn cost and the surplus is quietly subsidizing your nightly rate. Your rate looks more competitive than it is, and you do not know by how much.
Charge under it and the house absorbs part of every single turn, on every booking, forever, with no line item anywhere that says so.
Both directions are printed beside the net. Most hosts have never seen either.
A night at a time
The net is shown per night as well as per booking, because that is the number that compares.
A four-night booking and a two-night booking at the same rate do not leave the same money behind, and the reason is the turn — which is the arithmetic the room turn cost sheet works through in detail. The two tools are the same picture from either end.
What it replaces
The payout statement, which tells you what arrived and nothing about what it cost. Or the spreadsheet that nets commission off the gross and stops there, which is where most hosts stop.
Who it is for
B&Bs, inns, short-term rentals and holiday cottages — anywhere bookings come through a platform and the statement shows you revenue rather than what you kept.
What it will not do
It suggests no nightly rate and no cleaning fee. It shows you what yours are doing.
It does not know your tax obligations. It handles the tax the way you tell it to. Which taxes apply, who remits them and what you owe is between you and the authority where you are — this is arithmetic, not advice.
It does not price against other listings. Nothing here comes from anybody’s market data, and nothing here knows what the cottage down the road charges.
Nothing you type is sent anywhere. The arithmetic runs in your browser. Booking revenue and cost structure stay on the machine you typed them on. Close the tab and it is gone.
Yours would be built the same way.
This one runs on made-up data. The version built for your business runs on yours, and you own it outright. Builds start at $2,500. That is a floor, not a quote. What yours costs is agreed before any work begins. The first conversation is free.