{"id":708,"date":"2026-08-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stayease.co.za\/checkedin\/what-your-monthly-owner-statement-should-show"},"modified":"2026-08-25T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:00:00","slug":"what-your-monthly-owner-statement-should-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stayease.co.za\/checkedin\/what-your-monthly-owner-statement-should-show\/","title":{"rendered":"What your monthly owner statement should show you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you hand your property to a manager, the monthly statement is how you know it&#8217;s working. It should answer three questions in under a minute: what did my home earn, what did it cost, and what lands in my account? Here&#8217;s what a good statement shows, using the format we send our own owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. The headline numbers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Reservations and nights sold:<\/strong> how busy the home was.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Average nightly rate:<\/strong> what guests paid per night.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>What you earned:<\/strong> the bottom line, after every fee and expense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Gross revenue and platform fees, per channel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Airbnb, Booking.com and direct bookings each have different fees and pay out differently. A good statement shows each channel&#8217;s gross booking value, its fees, and the net that was paid out. If those three numbers don&#8217;t reconcile, ask why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. The management fee, clearly stated<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your manager&#8217;s fee should be a stated percentage of a stated base, so you can check it with a calculator. At Stayease it&#8217;s a percentage of the net income, shown as its own line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. Expenses, with receipts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A guest ran out of supplies? A tap needed a washer? Expenses paid on your behalf should be listed individually, with the date, the amount and a receipt you can see. No mystery &#8220;sundries&#8221; line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. The settlement: who pays whom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some platforms pay owners directly; others pay the manager. A clear statement ends with one line:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Example:<\/strong> &#8220;We&#8217;ve deducted our R 1,204.07 fee and R 89.99 of expenses from the R 6,441.75 we collected for you, and the remaining R 5,147.69 is on its way to your account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. Every booking, with proof<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each stay, with dates, nights and the amount paid out, and the platform payout statements attached so you can verify every figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7. What&#8217;s coming next<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bookings that started this month but pay out next month should be listed separately, so nothing is counted twice or forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your current statement leaves you with questions, that&#8217;s a sign. Ours is built so every number traces back to a payout or a receipt. Want to see what your home could earn with us? Start with a <a href=\"\/estimate\/\">free revenue estimate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gross revenue per channel, platform fees, a clear management fee, receipted expenses and one settlement line: how to read a property manager statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-owners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stayease.co.za\/checkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stayease.co.za\/checkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stayease.co.za\/checkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayease.co.za\/checkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayease.co.za\/checkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stayease.co.za\/checkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayease.co.za\/checkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stayease.co.za\/checkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayease.co.za\/checkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayease.co.za\/checkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}