Co-hosting is a different business than owning
Co-hosting means you are managing someone else's property, which means every booking, expense, and cleaning cost eventually has to be explained to an owner who was not there for it. Generic host tools built for someone managing their own listing do not have a concept of an owner statement or a management fee co-hosting software has to be built around that relationship from the start.
One system across every owner relationship
Managing five owners often means five separate mental models — who gets what percentage, who wants a call versus a monthly email, whose property has the finicky lockbox. The Property Tool keeps every owner relationship in the same system: one calendar and inbox across all the properties you co-host, with each owner scoped to see only their own.
Owner statements that make the fee split explicit
A co-hosting fee is usually a percentage of revenue, sometimes with expenses handled differently property by property. Statements calculate that split explicitly and consistently — so an owner who is not managing the property day to day can still see exactly how their payout was calculated, without having to take your word for it.
Co-hosting is a reporting business
The service you sell is not really cleaning coordination or message handling — it is confidence. An owner hands you their property and their revenue and wants to believe the numbers. Everything operational you do is in service of a monthly statement they trust enough to renew on.
That is why the fee calculation and the owner portal matter more than they might for someone managing their own listings: they are the product surface the client actually evaluates.
Getting the fee structure right
Co-hosting fees commonly run somewhere between 10% and 25% of revenue depending on what is included, and the structure matters as much as the number — what counts as revenue, whether cleaning is inside or outside the fee, who absorbs channel commission.
Whatever you agree, it has to be computed the same way every period or the conversation reopens monthly. Co-hosting fee structures covers the common shapes and why the tracking matters as much as the rate, and the free co-host fee calculator works the split through on a single booking.
Working across accounts you do not own
Co-hosts frequently operate on listings owned under the host's account, which means your system of record cannot be the channel. If your only ledger is the platform's payout report, you inherit its categories, its timing and its gaps.
Keeping the property, its bookings, its costs and its statements in your own system means the relationship survives a change of channel — and that you can report on a property let across two platforms as one property.
Scaling past the point of remembering
Most co-hosting businesses hit the same wall around eight to twelve properties: the volume of turnovers and messages exceeds what one person can track without a system. Tasks generated from checkouts and a unified inbox threaded per property are the two changes that move that ceiling.
Common questions
Can I report on a property let on more than one platform?
Yes. The property is the unit of record, so stays from different channels aggregate into one ledger and one statement.
How do I show an owner what my fee was calculated from?
The fee is a stated percentage of a stated base, applied every period. The statement shows the base, the fee and the net.
What if I co-host with a partner?
Multiple team members with roles are supported on one account.
Is there a commission on what I collect?
No. Pricing is a published price per unit, with nothing taken from what you collect.
Do you connect to Airbnb directly?
Channel sync is available as an add-on module.