Pricing
How Airflow pricing works: plans priced by the listings you run, with automated tasks included.
Listing on Crew HQ: Fees, Calendars and Payments, Explained Plainly
The questions hosts ask before listing for yacht crew on Crew HQ: what's free, what's charged, whether we need your Airbnb login, and how guests pay. Straight answers.
Is listing on Crew HQ really free? →
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? →
Your Villa Sleeps Eight. Who Actually Books It?
An average party size hides the shape of who comes. What a group-size breakdown shows, why it changes year to year, and what it means for how you price extra guests.
What size of group actually books my place? →
Cape Town's 50% Rule: Stay Under, or Go Commercial?
Staying under Cape Town's draft 50% letting threshold means closing nights. Crossing it means commercial rates. How to work out which costs you less, with three worked examples, including a family home with a garden cottage.
Should I stay under Cape Town's 50% rule or go commercial? →
Occupancy Was 78%. So Why Was It a Bad Year?
Occupancy and average rate both flatter a bad year. What a per-night value chart shows that neither does, and how to find the months where you discounted and still didn't fill.
What did each night of my year actually earn? →
Is a Direct Booking Actually Worth More? Run the Numbers
A direct booking does not save you the channel's whole commission. A worked example of what each side really costs, the largest discount you can offer before you lose money, and when direct is worth less.
Is a direct booking really worth more than an Airbnb one? →
Tourist Tax and City Tax on Short-Term Rentals: How to Charge It Properly
How tourist, city and occupancy taxes on short-term rentals are worked out, who collects them, and how to charge them correctly on your direct bookings.
How do I charge tourist tax on a short-term rental? →
The Plan Has a Price. What Did Last Month Actually Cost?
What running an Airflow account costs in a quiet month and a busy one, which work uses automated tasks and which is free, and where to read your own number in the portal.
What does an Airflow account really cost each month? → How to Take a Deposit on a Direct Booking
How much to ask for, when the balance should fall due, and the edge case that trips up every booking system: a guest who books inside your own balance window.
How do I take a deposit on a direct booking? →
Setting a Cancellation Policy for Direct Bookings
Free cancellation until when? What to charge, what to put in writing, and the one safeguard that stops a guest's throwaway email cancelling a real booking.
How do I set a cancellation policy for direct bookings? →
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? → 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? →
Your Website Builder Bill Is Just the Start
A website builder gives you a brochure. For less than a Wix subscription, Airflow gives hosts the website and the operating system behind it — and moves your old site over in one conversation.
Is a website builder enough for a booking business? →
Plans & Upgrading
Understanding Airflow's plans, what's included at each level, how your automated-tasks allowance works, and how to upgrade when you're ready to grow.
Which Airflow plan do I need, and how do I upgrade? →
Stop Paying Per Property — You're Overpaying in the Off-Season
Per-property pricing charges you the same in January as in July. If your bookings are seasonal, you're subsidising empty months. There's a fairer model.
Why pay per property in the off-season? →
Automated Tasks, Not Per-Property Fees: Why We Chose a Fairer Pricing Model
Most booking software charges per property per month, whether you use it or not. We think you should pay for what you actually process.
Why does Airflow charge by task, not per property? →