We need a simple way of rolling our cleaning fee into nighty rent. The market is moving toward a "no cleaning fee" mentality. The appearance of no cleaning fee to a traveler is appealing. However, we all know nothing is free. I feel that if we had a way to roll the cleaning fee into the rent, automatically, it would be VERY beneficial.
It really is not feasible to do this manually because you never know how many days a guest will book, so you cannot calculate this until the guest makes a selection. As an example, let's say you have your rates set to $200 per night with a cleaning fee of $100. If you choose to roll this fee into your rates to give the appearance of no fee, this is the way it would work below.
Software adjusts your rates based on your minimum nights settings. Example......
- Your standard rate $200/night w/ $100 cleaning fee you want to roll in.
- Minimum nights set to 4 nights
- Software sets your rates to $225 per night for those 4 nights
- Any nights booked more than 4 nights receives an automatic $25 discount. This keeps your hidden cleaning fee at $100 max.
Doing it this way gets you the $100 cleaning fee by adding $25/night to the rate for only 4 nights (your min night setting), and anything over 4 nights booked, that $25 is discounted. This would work the same if you had a 2-night min or a 7-night min. The software would just adjust the rent equally for the min nights set, and then discount any days booked that exceed your min night setting.
I think this would give us an easy way to roll certain fees into our rates without a lot of thought. The OTAs already are starting to favor hosts with free cleaning and this will be attractive to guests as well, with no surprises at time of booing.
Anybody else like this idea?
