StayMargin — Airbnb fee-impact audit
Airbnb moved its fee onto you. Your prices didn’t move. We fix that — exactly.
StayMargin audits every listing component — nightly rate, cleaning fee, extra-guest fee — against the 15.5% host-only fee and delivers the precise repriced numbers that restore your old payout, in 48 hours. Done for you, in plain dollars.
Host-fee-impact calculator
What is the 15.5% fee costing you?
Enter one listing’s prices. The fee is charged on nightly rate plus cleaning and extra-guest fees — taxes excluded, exactly as Airbnb charges it.
Free and gateless — no account, no email before the result. The full audit runs the same engine on every listing, with the restored-payout verification.
The problem
The fee didn’t shrink — it moved
It moved onto every component
The fee didn’t shrink — it moved. You now pay all of it, on every component you charge.
Nightly-only raises leave money short
Raising only your nightly rate leaves your cleaning and extra-guest fees short — the fee is charged on those too.
A dashboard is not a finished answer
Pricing software gives you a dashboard and a learning curve. It does not give you a finished answer.
How it works
How the audit works
Send your prices
Send us your current nightly rate, cleaning fee, extra-guest fee, and booked nights per listing (a screenshot or a simple form — 5 minutes).
We run the fee-impact audit
We run the fee-impact audit: old payout vs. new payout, loss per stay, annualised loss if nothing changes.
You get the repricing sheet
You get a repricing sheet with the exact new numbers per component, per listing, ready to paste into Airbnb / your PMS — plus the guest-facing total comparison so you can see guests pay close to what they already paid.
Worked example
One listing, priced three ways
The published example: a $150/night listing paid the host $145.50 under split-fee and pays $126.75 now. Airbnb’s own illustration: a $100 price now earns the host $84.50.
The deliverable
The repricing sheet
The deliverable, broken into its named parts — a document, not a dashboard.
Pricing
Pricing, as a statement
If our repriced numbers, applied exactly as delivered, do not restore your per-stay payout to within $1 of the pre-change payout at the fee rate we audited, we redo the audit free or refund the order. (Payout restoration is arithmetic; bookings and revenue depend on your market and are never guaranteed.)
Audit
$149
one-time · 1 listing
- 1 listing, full fee-impact audit
- Old vs. new payout, loss per stay, annualised loss
- Restored repricing for all components
- Delivered within 48 hours of complete inputs
Reprice Pack
$349
one-time · up to 5 listings
- Up to 5 listings, everything in Audit
- PMS-ready repricing CSV
- Guest-total comparison per listing
- Delivered within 72 hours for up to 5 listings
Sentinel
$79/mo
recurring · monthly monitoring
- Monthly re-check — fee changes and payout drift
- A fresh repricing sheet whenever Airbnb moves the rate or your mix changes
- Cancel anytime
Honest scope
Arithmetic, stated plainly
This is arithmetic on your own prices. It is not financial, tax, or legal advice — and we never ask for your Airbnb login.
“I use PriceLabs.”
Keep it for demand pricing. PriceLabs tunes around a base price YOU set — if that base was never corrected for the fee change, every adjustment inherits the leak. We fix the base, per component, once.
“I'll just raise prices 15%.”
Close, but the restoring uplift is 14.79% applied to every component — and a flat guess overshoots some listings and undershoots others once cleaning/extra fees are in the mix. We give exact per-listing numbers.
“Guests will stop booking at higher prices.”
Guests already paid roughly that total under split-fee — they just saw part of it as a separate Airbnb fee at checkout. That line is gone now; the total is what matters.
Is this financial advice?
No. This is arithmetic on your own prices and Airbnb's published fee — a calculation and repricing sheet, not financial, tax, or legal advice.
Do you need my Airbnb login?
Never. You send prices and booked nights; we never ask for credentials or account access.
Which hosts are affected?
Nearly all home hosts have now been moved to the single fee, in waves ending Oct 13, 2026 (EU independents). If you're unsure which structure you're on, the audit inputs include a 2-minute check from your Earnings page.
