Net after 15.5%

What each night really leaves you. Under the price of every night you can still sell, what is left after Airbnb’s 15.5%; and when you select nights, the full math of that possible booking.

Where: Your Airbnb multicalendar: a second line under each price and, when you select nights, the “What you get” card in Airbnb’s side panel.
What it reads: The prices already on your calendar and the nights you select. For the card, also your cleaning fees, length-of-stay discounts and active promotions, from your listing’s pricing settings.
What it costs: No AI call. The labels only read the screen. The card reads a listing’s pricing settings the first time you select nights on it, and keeps them while you stay on the calendar.
What it changes on Airbnb: Nothing. It only reads.

The problem

Today, when a new booking comes in, Airbnb keeps 15.5% of the total: of the nights, and of the cleaning fee too. But your calendar still shows what you ask, not what reaches you. Doing that subtraction in your head, night by night, while you adjust prices, is slow and easy to get wrong: the fee also applies to cleaning, a weekly or monthly discount only comes off the nights, and your promotions are already inside each night’s price.

Where to find it

Open your multicalendar on Airbnb. There is nothing to click: under the price of each night you can still sell, there is now a second, smaller line with what that night leaves you. The “What you get” card appears when you select nights, the way you always do in Airbnb.

The Airbnb multicalendar in month view: under the price of each night still for sale, a smaller line with the net; booked nights have none; on the right, Airbnb’s listing settings — Nothing to open: the net shows up on its own under every price you can still sell.

The dark strip at the top of each month is “Month insight”, a different tool, with its own guide.

The label under each price

Each label is that night’s price minus 15.5%. The fee is worked out to the cent, and what is left is rounded once to whole units, the way Airbnb writes its prices, in the page’s currency.

Four nights up close: each price with the net label right below it, in smaller type — The price minus 15.5%, rounded to whole units, in the page’s currency.

It takes up no space: it hangs under the price without adding any height, so the calendar does not move a single pixel. On a night you select, it takes the colors Airbnb gives that cell, so it stays readable.

Where there is no label

Booked nights do not get one: they no longer show a price, and the money from those bookings is counted by Month insight. Neither do blocked nights, for the same reason.

A booked night, covered by Airbnb’s reservation bar and without a net label, next to two free nights that have one — A booked night shows no price, so it gets no label.

Nor do nights that have already passed. They can no longer be booked, and this 15.5% is what Airbnb keeps from a booking made today: the fee depends on the day a booking is made, not on the dates of its nights.

A night that has already passed, greyed out, with its price and no net label — A night that has passed can no longer be booked: no label.

“What you get”, for the nights you select

If someone booked a few particular nights, how much would reach you? Select them on the calendar. In its side panel, Airbnb shows its price per night. Right below it, the extension’s card appears, in its own colors, so you can tell its estimate apart from Airbnb’s figures.

Airbnb’s price per night for three selected nights and, right below it, the extension’s cream “What you get” card: 3 nights, Nightly rates, Cleaning fee (3+ nights), Gross booking, Airbnb fee (15.5%), Net payout, From the nights, From cleaning, the amount per night, a note on the next discount and the footer — Airbnb’s price per night on top; below it, the extension’s card, in its own colors.

The card looks up your cleaning fee and your length-of-stay discounts, and does the math as soon as they arrive. Until then it shows the nights and what you ask for them, and leaves the rest blank, saying it is looking them up.

The labels need no sign-in. The card shows its figures only when you are signed in to the extension; otherwise it says “Sign in to see the net for this selection.”, with a “Sign in” button. Account and settings shows how signing in works.

The math, row by row

First, how many nights you selected.
“Nightly rates” is the sum of what you ask for each one.
“Cleaning fee” is the fee set in your listing, and it says which one it used: “3+ nights” or “short stay”.
“Gross booking” is the nights, minus a length-of-stay discount if one applies, plus cleaning.
“Airbnb fee (15.5%)” comes off that whole total, cleaning included.
“Net payout” is what is left: the big number.
“From the nights” and “From cleaning” show where that money comes from, each one already without its share of the fee. If you pay someone to clean, the line that is really yours is the one from the nights.
At the end, your payout spread across the nights, cleaning included: the number for comparing a three-night booking with a five-night one.

You can check it with a calculator

Without a length-of-stay discount, the labels of the nights you selected add up to “From the nights”, give or take the rounding of each label.

The three selected nights, in Airbnb’s dark selection color, each with its price and its net label — The three labels add up to “From the nights”, give or take the rounding.

And “From the nights” plus “From cleaning” come to exactly your net payout, to the cent: the cleaning part is worked out by subtraction, so the two always add up.

If your listing has a length-of-stay discount the selection does not reach yet, a note tells you from how many nights it would apply, and how much less the guest would pay for a stay that long, at the average price of the nights you picked. It is a figure to help you decide, nothing more.

Only for consecutive nights

The math only appears for consecutive nights. Take the middle one out of three: at the top of Airbnb’s panel, the range of dates turns into a count of nights, and the card explains that this way it is not one booking.

Airbnb’s side panel, headed by a count of two nights instead of a range of dates, and the “What you get” card with a single line: the selected nights are not consecutive, so they are not one booking — No total that falls short: the card says why there isn’t one.

The same goes if one of the nights is booked or blocked, or if the selection reaches the edge of what the calendar has on screen: instead of a total that falls short, the card tells you why there is none. For the edge, it asks you to scroll until every selected night is visible.

Two nights: the other cleaning fee

Airbnb lets you set two cleaning fees: one for stays under three nights, and another for the rest. With two nights selected, the cleaning fee row says “short stay”, and the card uses that fee.

The “What you get” card for 2 nights, with the cleaning fee marked “short stay” — Under three nights, the short-stay cleaning fee.

If you only have one of the two set, the card uses the one you have and says so, instead of putting a zero as if it knew. If it could not read your cleaning fee at all, it says the total goes without it.

Seven nights: the length-of-stay discount

If your listing has a weekly discount, seven nights in a row bring a new line: “Length-of-stay discount”, weekly, from 7 nights. It comes off the nights only; the cleaning fee is charged in full. And only one applies, the longest tier the booking reaches: weekly from 7 nights, monthly from 28. Stacking both would be discounting twice. Below, the note already points to the next tier.

The “What you get” card for 7 nights, with a “Length-of-stay discount” line, weekly, from 7 nights, between Nightly rates and Cleaning fee, and a note on the monthly tier — One discount, the longest tier the stay reaches, on the nights only.

Promotions are not subtracted again: each cell’s price already comes discounted, and when a promotion covers every night you selected, the card says so. A length-of-stay discount the extension could not read is named too: the card says it is not in this total.

Why it works

The math comes from what is already in front of you: the nights you marked and each cell’s price, which already includes your promotions and your date-based rules. Your cleaning fees and discounts are read from your listing’s settings; it does not ask you for them. One fee on the total and every step on screen, so every row can be checked by hand. When it cannot give an honest number, it says why.

Its limits

It excludes taxes, extra guests and pets, and the card says so at its foot.
The 15.5% is fixed in the extension: it is not read from your account.
It is math for deciding prices, not the payout Airbnb will send you.
Booked and past nights get no label and are not counted. The money from your bookings is in Month insight.