Bookings and Profitability

Managing income from a vacation rental is complex due to the different ways platforms handle money. Anfitrión is designed so you see your real profitability transparently.

How to record a booking

In the Income section, you can add each booking individually. For each you'll need:

• Guest: Customer identification.
• Dates: Check-in and Check-out (the app calculates nights automatically).
• Gross Amount: What the guest pays in total.
• Platform: Where the booking was made.

Fee Models: Airbnb vs Booking

This is the most important point for your numbers to add up:

Deduction Model (e.g. Airbnb)

The platform deducts its fee before sending you the money.

• In Anfitrión, you'll see the Net Amount (what you receive in the bank) and the fee already subtracted. You don't need to create a separate expense for the fee.

Invoicing Model (e.g. Booking.com)

The platform sends you the total amount (or the guest pays you directly), and later the platform sends you a monthly invoice for its services.

• In Anfitrión, we record the total income. The application detects it's an invoice model and automatically creates a pending expense in your Transaction Ledger for the fee value. This way, your monthly profitability is accurate.

How to interpret booking profitability

The application analyzes each booking and shows:

• Income per night: So you can compare performance by season.
• Fee impact: How much each platform is deducting from your profit.
• Net margin: The real money left after fees and associated variable expenses (like cleaning).

Relationship between Bookings and Transactions

Every time you record a booking, a movement is created in the Transaction Ledger. This unifies your accounting so when you export your data for tax filing, you don't have to cross-reference calendars with bank statements: everything is on the same list.