Nobody Should Manage a Night Cap by Hand
Counting nights against a letting limit every month, for every property, forever, is a job that fails quietly. What it takes to hand it over safely — and what should still need your say-so.
Can a night cap be managed automatically? →
Which Nights Should You Give Up?
If a night cap means closing part of your year, the question is not how many nights but which ones. Rank the year by your own rate card and the answer changes by thousands.
Which nights should I close to stay under a night cap? →
In Namibia, Letting an Unregistered Room Is a Criminal Offence
The Namibia Tourism Board Act makes providing accommodation in an unregistered establishment an offence carrying a fine up to N$20,000 or two years' imprisonment.
Do I need to register my rental with the Namibia Tourism Board? →
Barcelona's Tourist Licences All Expire in November 2028
Roughly 10,101 HUT licences, none renewable, all gone by November 2028 — upheld by the Constitutional Court. No calendar setting fixes this. What the options actually are.
What happens to Barcelona tourist licences in 2028? →
Portugal's Alojamento Local, Now That Lisbon Has Stopped Issuing
AL licences became permanent and transferable in 2024 — then Lisbon began closing neighbourhoods to new ones. Why the licence is now the asset, and how containment zones work.
Can I still get an Alojamento Local licence in Lisbon? →
Greece's AMA Number, and the 60-Day Line That Isn't a Cap
Greece requires an AMA number from AADE on every listing. The 60-day threshold is widely misread as a limit — it is a tax classification boundary, and the difference matters.
Do I need an AMA number in Greece, and is 60 days a limit? →
Italy's CIN: The Code That Goes on Your Listing and Your Front Door
Italy's national identification code must appear in every advert and physically at the property. What the CIN is, how it differs from the regional CIR, and the €8,000 downside.
What is Italy's CIN code, and where must I show it? →
Amsterdam's 30 Nights — and 15, If You're in the Wrong Street
Amsterdam caps holiday letting at 30 nights a year, and at 15 in eleven central neighbourhoods since April 2026. Plus the per-booking reporting duty hosts keep missing.
How many nights can I let in Amsterdam? →
London's 90 Nights: How to Count Them Before the Council Does
The 90-night rule applies to the property, not to you, resets on 1 January, and has a second condition most hosts have never heard of. How to count it properly.
How do I count London's 90 nights? →
A Night Cap Is an Accounting Problem, Not a Calendar Problem
Your calendar shows today. It cannot tell you what was available last March — and that is exactly what a night-cap rule asks. Why proving your number needs a ledger.
How do I prove how many nights my property was let? →
From 20 May 2026, Your Platform Reports Your Nights For You
EU Regulation 2024/1028 makes platforms verify your registration number and report your activity to national authorities every month. What it changes for hosts, and what it does not.
What does the EU short-term rental regulation change for hosts? →
Short-Term Rental Rules by City, 2026
Night caps, registration numbers and licence freezes across Europe and Africa, with the number, the authority and the date for each — and what actually counts towards your limit.
What are the short-term rental rules in my city? →
Three Properties, Three Spreadsheets, One Sunday Afternoon
Multi-property owners reconcile by hand because each property lives in a different place. What a portfolio view shows that three spreadsheets cannot, including the pipeline nobody tracks.
How do I see all my properties on one page? →
Your Booking System and Your Accounts Disagree. Which One Is Wrong?
Two systems, two totals, and no way to tell which is right. How to reconcile bookings against your ledger month by month, and what the gaps usually turn out to be.
Why don't my bookings match my accounts? →
Will My Garden Cottage Be Affected by Cape Town's 50% Availability Rule?
You live in the five-bedroom house and let the two-bedroom cottage. Under Cape Town's draft by-law the erf is one property, so the cottage borrows the whole house's capacity — and the answer flips entirely if the City counts it the other way.
Will Cape Town's 50% rule affect my garden cottage? →
Short-term Letting in the City of Cape Town
What the City of Cape Town's draft Short-Term Letting By-Law, 2026 actually requires: registration, a registration number on every listing, availability and occupancy data sharing, and the 50% room-nights rates threshold. Comment closed on 5 October 2026; rating changes are due from 1 July 2027.
What does Cape Town's draft short-term letting by-law require? →
Where Your Bookings Are Actually Sold
A row of tiles under your bookings list and calendar showing every place each property can be booked, whether it is live, and the listing title Airflow matches your booking emails against.
Where can each of my properties be booked? →
Letting an Owner Block Their Own Dates Without Handing Over Your Calendar
Owners want to use their own property. You cannot give them the keys to your calendar. Here is how owner block-date requests work in Airflow: the owner asks, you approve, and only then is anything blocked.
How can an owner block their own dates safely? →
How to Calculate and Record Your Management Fee
Two managers can both charge 20% and pay the same owner different amounts. The difference is the base the fee is charged on. Here is how to choose it, and how Airflow applies it on every owner statement.
How do I calculate and record my management fee? →
What to Show an Inspector: A Night-by-Night Letting Statement
If a council asks how many nights your property was let or offered, a screenshot of today's calendar proves nothing. What a letting statement should contain, and how to download one.
What do I show an inspector who asks about my letting nights? →
Staying Under Cape Town's 50% Letting Threshold
The draft by-law counts nights your property is available, not nights it's booked. Here's how the 50% maths works and what it means for your rates bill.
How do I stay under Cape Town's 50% letting threshold? →
Your Calendar Still Shows a Cancelled Booking
A guest cancelled on the channel, but the dates are still blocked everywhere else. Why feeds leave stale blocks behind, and how to clear them.
Why does my calendar still show a cancelled booking? →
Cancelling Shouldn't Take Your Listing Down
Downgrading and closing your account are two different decisions. Now they have two different outcomes — one listing stays live, takes bookings, and gets paid.
Does my listing stay live if I cancel my plan? →
How to Set Seasonal Rates for a Short-Term Rental
Fixed rack rates or a percentage off a base? Recurring seasons, minimum stays, discount stacking, and a yearly increase that compounds correctly.
How do I set seasonal rates for a short-term rental? →
A Booking Is a Thing at a Time
One booking engine for nights, days, per-person tours, appointments and timed sessions, with the same checkout, invoice and books behind every type.
Can one system take nights, tours and appointments? →
Price Next Season Before You Have To
See what each season actually achieved against the rate you set, then apply a yearly increase per season, only where your own booking data supports it.
How should I price next season? →
It's a Trip, Not a Booking
Guests have trips, not bookings. Paste an itinerary or forward a flight confirmation and Airflow builds the plan: stays, flights and activities in one place.
How do I turn an itinerary into one trip plan? → Go Live on Your Own Terms
Publish your direct booking page, your marketplace listing and your website embed separately, per property. Or run Airflow accounting-only, with no public page.
Can I publish my booking page and listing separately? →
Every Booking You Already Have, In One Place
Import existing bookings three ways: a CSV or Google Sheet, an iCal feed, or typed by hand. Every route blocks the dates before it touches your books.
How do I import the bookings I already have? → One Resource or One Hundred
Airflow works the same whether you run a single room or a hundred properties. Start small, grow without re-platforming, and never change how you work.
Does Airflow work for one room as well as a hundred properties? →
See Your Whole Business in One Place
Bookings, revenue, clients and activity across every property — and every business you run — on a single dashboard. No more flicking between tabs.
How do I see my whole business on one dashboard? →
Multi-Property Short-Term Rental Accounting: A Clean P&L Per Property
Multi-property Airbnb accounting done right: how to get a clean profit and loss per property using tracking categories, and automate the per-property tagging.
How do I get a profit and loss for each property? →
Owner Statements That Write Themselves — and Land in Xero
If you manage properties for owners, the monthly statement is the job everyone dreads. Airflow now builds each owner's payout statement automatically — rent collected, deductions, your management fee, net payout — emails it, shows it in a portal, and pushes it to Xero as a draft owner remittance. Live now.
How do I produce monthly owner statements? →
Why Your Cleaning Team Can See Your Revenue (And How to Fix It)
Most booking tools give everyone the same access. Your cleaner sees your revenue. Your co-host sees your billing. Here's why proper team permissions matter — and what they should look like.
How do I stop my cleaning team seeing my revenue? →
One Calendar to Rule Them All
Day, week, month, and year views — all in one calendar. See every booking across every property at a glance.
Can I see every booking in one calendar? →