Using Commission Calculations

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You can use Guesty's Commission Calculations feature to divide and share incomings between property managers and owners. Use placeholders such as fare_accommodation and channel_commission to create formulas. 

Note:

Set up Commission Calculations formulas per Guesty account, per listing or per reservation.

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See some examples of Commission Calculations formulas and learn more about each of the fields you complete when creating the formulas.

Use the placeholders below to create the formulas.
Placeholder
 Which information is being calculated?
channel_commission
Value of "Channel commission" from each reservation (including Airbnb).
channel_commission_tax
The taxes that are paid on the channel commission.
discount
The discount calculated for each reservation based on a listing's pricing settings. Currently relevant for Vrbo reservations.
host_channel_fee
Relevant for Airbnb and Pre-deduct manual reservations. Only relevant for Airbnb. This is Airbnb's Service Fee.
fare_accommodation
The total accommodation fare as it appears in the booking channel.
adjusted_fare_accommodation
The net accommodation fare amount. This includes adjustments, discounts and coupons.
fare_cleaning
The cleaning fee, if it exists for the specific reservation.
guests_count
Total number of guests for the reservation.
guests_included_in_base_price 
Number of guests who are included in the base price. This is used to determine the number of added guests, minus the guest count).
extra_person_fee
A listing's extra person fee.
nights_count
Total number of nights for the reservation.
host_payout
Total payout received from the booking channel including taxes plus additional fees. For Airbnb reservations, the host_channel_fee is removed from the host_payout. For all other channels, the channel_commission is not deducted from the host_payout.
net_income
The result of the "Net income formula" field. This can only be used inside the second or third fields of "Commission formula".
round
If you want to round up/down the results, you can insert the formula into the "round" brackets. For example: round(fare_accommodation*0.2).
host_subtotal
Total payout received from the booking channel, plus additional fees and does not include taxes. For Airbnb reservations, the host_channel_fee is removed from the host_subtotal. For all other channels, the channel_commission is not deducted from the host_subtotal.
taxes
The total amount of taxes for the reservation.
pm_commission
The value (calculation result) of the Property Manager’s (PM) Commission Formula field. This value includes both the PM commission and PM commission tax.

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