Run your rentals before they run you. Cleaning fee optimizer for Airbnb and STR hosts. Compares 3 fee strategies side-by-side and tells you which one nets the most. Editable Excel. Airbnb’s algorithm penalizes listings when the cleaning fee climbs above 30% of a 3-night total. Most hosts find out by watching their search visibility quietly slide while their cleaner asks for a raise. Charge full pass-through and you take a search hit. Eat the cost and your margin disappears. Bundle into the nightly rate and the math gets fuzzy fast — especially across short stays vs long stays, where the answer flips. This workbook runs the math for you. Three strategies, side-by-side, with the annual dollar delta and the search-rank impact for each. One recommendation. Re-run when your cleaner’s rate changes. WHAT’S INCLUDED Excel workbook (5 tabs): - Start — recommendation headline, math summary, and the ”+$X,XXX/year” verdict in one glance - Inputs — cleaning cost, current fee, current ADR, length of stay, monthly bookings, platform commission - Strategy Compare — 3 strategies side-by-side: Full Fee charged / Partial Bundle 50% / Fully Bundled into rate. Per-booking net, annual revenue, delta vs current, search-rank flag, guest-perception note - LOS Sensitivity (Full version) — same compare across 1-2 night / 3-4 night / 5+ night cohorts, weighted by your booking mix. The answer is different for short stays than long stays — this tab shows it - Recommendation — 1-page printable action plan with the new fee, new rate, expected lift, and a 60-day review note Search-rank impact estimate (Full version): cleaning-fee-to-3-night-total ratio scored against Airbnb’s documented ranking factor. Under 15% reads “no penalty.” Over 30% reads “penalty.” The estimate is directional, sourced from Airbnb’s published guidance and host-community testing — footnoted accordingly.
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What's inside
- Airbnb and VRBO hosts whose cleaning fee feels too high but the math has never been done
- Hosts watching search visibility slide and wondering if the fee is the cause
- Multi-property operators where the answer differs by property LOS profile
- New hosts setting their cleaning-fee strategy from day one — before the bad habit sets in
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Format: Excel .xlsx + how-to PDF. Excel 2016+, Excel 365, Google Sheets compatible. Instant download after checkout. 14-day refund, no questions. Lifetime updates within v1.