What you just described is the current way that OR works and not what this thread is about. Agreed, this would also help for recurring expenses like landscaping, tech, etc.
What you sent along does not work for many business models. I don't collect the cleaning fee and keep it. I charge a cleaning fee per reservation. It is not always the same as the cleaning fee charged to the guest. All income is revenue and I charge a flat fee on all revenue, including cleaning fees. I also have to charge other fees per booking that the guest does not pay - i.e. linen fee. Regarding the booking fees, it is a known OR limitation that it cannot properly pull in VRBO pay per booking fees. A recurring expenses feature would allow a 5% VRBO fee to be charged to every VRBO reservation. This is not currently possible including in the screenshot you sent.
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Edward, not sure if this will be helpful or not, but the surcharges can be configured. I suspect it requires that the PM module be turned on but you can choose to handle them appropriately. Here is a cleaning fee where we get the entire amount... It never even appears on the owner statement. Guest pays it and it comes to us. We run the PM statement to get what our total payouts from the owner should be.
And then on the owners you can decide for each owner how to handle the channel fees. This one is an example for an Owner setup to deduct that channel fees from the owner. And of course you can choose to show it or not.
I believe that this thread is more related to those things that happen over and over each month but are not really related to the booking themselves...at least that is what I thought it was. Like fees we charge for tech or landscaping or window washing, etc... it happens month after month for a property but is not tied to a booking.
