Accounting
Turn booking income into clean, reconciled accounts in Xero, QuickBooks, Sage or FreshBooks — automatically.
How to Record Airbnb Income in Xero (Without the Manual Entry)
How to record Airbnb income in Xero correctly: what a payout really contains, the right line-item structure for accommodation, cleaning and service fees, and how to automate it.
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VAT for Short-Term Rentals: When to Register & How to Handle OTA VAT
VAT for short-term rentals explained: when registration becomes compulsory, why holiday lets are standard-rated, and how to handle VAT on OTA commission.
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Multi-Property Short-Term Rental Accounting: A Clean P&L Per Property
Multi-property Airbnb accounting done right: how to get a clean profit and loss per property using tracking categories, and automate the per-property tagging.
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Cleaning Fees, Damage Deposits & Taxes: Where Do They Go in Your Books?
Airbnb cleaning fee accounting explained: where cleaning fees, refundable damage deposits and occupancy taxes belong in your books, and how to record each correctly.
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Your Short-Term Rental Chart of Accounts: A Template That Works
A short-term rental chart of accounts template: the income, expense and liability accounts hosts actually need, why the split matters, and how to keep it clean.
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How to Track OTA Commissions as Expenses (Airbnb, Booking.com & VRBO)
How to track Airbnb, Booking.com and VRBO commission in your accounting as a proper expense, why netting it out costs you, and how to automate the split.
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Bank Reconciliation for Short-Term Rentals: A Step-by-Step Guide
Short-term rental bank reconciliation made simple: why OTA payouts never match your invoices, the step-by-step method, and how to automate the matching.
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VRBO Income in QuickBooks: the Setup Nobody Explains
How to record VRBO income in QuickBooks correctly: what a payout contains, the line-item structure for accommodation and fees, and how to automate the draft invoice.
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Expedia Bookings and Your Accountant
Expedia accounting for hosts: how Expedia's commission and remittance model differs, the right invoice structure, and how to automate the draft in your books.
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Accounting for Short-Term Rentals: OTA Income, Fees & Reconciliation (The Complete Guide)
A complete guide to short-term rental accounting: why OTA income never matches your bank, how to structure your books, and how to reconcile Airbnb and Booking.com payouts.
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Channel Manager vs. Better Accounting: What You Actually Need
A channel manager distributes rates and availability across OTAs. Airflow connects bookings to your accounting. Here is how to tell which problem you actually have.
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Why None of Your OTA Payouts Match Your Invoices
Airbnb, Booking.com and VRBO each net fees and commission differently, so OTA payouts rarely match your invoices. Here is why, and how to reconcile cleanly.
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Short-Term Rental Tax Prep: Get Your Books Ready in a Weekend
Short-term rental tax prep made manageable: what records you need, a quick UK and US overview, and how clean draft invoices and an activity log make Airbnb tax preparation fast.
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Hostaway & Guesty Do Channels — But Who Does Your Books?
Hostaway and Guesty are excellent channel managers, but they are not accounting tools. Here is the books-side gap they leave, and how Airflow fills it honestly.
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Bookkeeper vs PMS vs Airflow: An Honest Breakdown
Bookkeeper vs PMS vs Airflow for short-term rentals: what each one actually does, what it does not, and how to combine them without paying for overlap.
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Best Airbnb Accounting Software in 2026 (Xero, QuickBooks, Sage & FreshBooks)
Looking for accounting software for your Airbnb? The real question isn't which ledger to use — it's what gets your booking income into it cleanly. Here's how to choose, and how Airflow connects to all four major engines.
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Deposit Now, Balance Later — and the Books Stay Right
Let guests pay a deposit to hold their dates and the balance closer to arrival. Airflow tracks every stage automatically — deposit paid, balance remaining, fully paid — and the accounting stays reconciled the whole way. Live across cards, Paystack, and manual payments.
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Owner Statements That Write Themselves — and Land in Xero
If you manage properties for owners, the monthly statement is the job everyone dreads. Airflow now builds each owner's payout statement automatically — rent collected, deductions, your management fee, net payout — emails it, shows it in a portal, and pushes it to Xero as a draft owner remittance. Live now.
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Automatic Accounting Sync
How Airflow automatically creates draft invoices in Xero, QuickBooks, FreshBooks, or Sage from your booking data — with correct line items, taxes, and FX.
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Airbnb Payouts Don't Match Your Invoices — Here's Why
The guest paid €1,200. After Airbnb's ~15% host-only fee and a currency conversion, your bank received £867. Your Xero invoice says something else entirely. Here's what's happening — and how to fix it.
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Your Booking Confirmation Emails Are a Goldmine You're Ignoring
Every booking confirmation email contains guest details, dates, amounts, fees, and platform data. You're reading them once and filing them. Here's what you should be doing instead.
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Xero + Short-Term Rentals: The Setup Nobody Teaches You
Xero is powerful accounting software. But setting it up for short-term rental income — with multiple properties, platforms, currencies, and fee structures — is harder than it should be. Here's the right way.
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Multi-Currency Bookings Are Breaking Your Spreadsheet
EUR bookings, GBP payouts, USD reporting, KES bank deposits. If you're managing multi-currency bookings in a spreadsheet, something is already wrong. Here's why — and how to fix it.
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Your Money, Every Currency: How Airflow Handles Multi-Currency Bookings
Bookings in euros, payouts in pounds, accounting in dollars — Airflow's three-layer currency model handles it all without spreadsheets.
Read article → Automated Accounting: From Booking Email to Draft Invoice in Seconds
How Airflow turns a forwarded booking confirmation into a categorised, tax-ready draft invoice in your accounting software — without you touching a spreadsheet.
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Connect Everything: Xero, Stripe, Google, and Beyond
Airflow connects your booking channels to your accounting, payments, calendar, and email — without replacing any of them.
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Why Every Booking Business Needs a Middleware Layer
You're the human middleware between your booking platforms, your accounting software, and your clients. Here's why that needs to change.
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