Bookkeeping for
Short-Term
Rentals.
An Airbnb or Vrbo payout is never the booking total. Host fees come out, cleaning fees come in, and occupancy tax is remitted by the platform in some places and left to you in others. We break each payout back into rent, fees and taxes and keep the books by property, so you can see which listings actually make money.
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Built for Every Kind
of Short-Term Rental
One cabin you run yourself or a dozen units across several LLCs, the job is the same: turn platform payouts into real numbers for each property.
Self-Managed Hosts
You own one or a few listings and handle guests yourself. We reconcile every Airbnb and Vrbo payout, split out fees and cleaning, and keep rental costs apart from your personal spending.
- Payouts split into rent, fees, cleaning
- Loan payments split into interest and principal
- Utilities, internet and supplies coded
- Cleaners and handymen tracked for 1099s
- Furniture and appliance purchases recorded
Multi-Property Portfolios
You run several properties, often under more than one LLC. We keep separate books for each entity and track each property inside them, so every unit has its own P&L and nothing bleeds between companies.
- Separate books for each LLC
- P&L by property or unit
- Channel manager reports matched
- Co-host payouts recorded
- Shared costs split across properties
- Owner contributions and draws tracked
Managers and Co-Hosts
You run listings for other owners and earn a fee or a share. We keep your company's income apart from the guest money you pass through, and match each owner payout to its statement.
- Management fee income recorded
- Owner payouts matched to statements
- Guest money kept apart from your income
- Cleaning and turnover crews tracked
- Software and channel manager fees coded
- Damage claims and refunds recorded
The Financial Headaches
We Fix
Short-term rental income is easy to collect and hard to read. These are the usual problems in host books.
Payouts booked as revenue, fees disappear
If each deposit is booked as income, the host fees the platform kept never show up. Revenue looks smaller than it really is, one of your biggest costs is invisible, and you can't compare what Airbnb, Vrbo and direct bookings actually earn you.
Occupancy tax: who collected it, who owes it
In some places the platform collects and remits lodging tax for you. In others you owe it yourself, sometimes to the city, county and state separately. If the books don't show which is which, you can overpay, underpay, or count tax money as income.
Every property blended into one P&L
When three listings share one bank account and one set of categories, you can't tell which property carries the others. A slow cabin hides behind a busy condo, and shared costs like software and supplies never get split fairly.
Furnishing costs buried in supplies
Setting up a rental means furniture, linens, appliances and decor all at once. Coded as supplies, the first year looks like a loss and your CPA has to dig to sort out what should be treated as an asset. We record it so your CPA can make that call quickly.
Every Month
Everything You Need,
Nothing You Don't
Short-term rental books live or die on the payout. We work from Airbnb, Vrbo and channel manager reports to rebuild what each stay earned, then reconcile it to the bank every month.
Monthly Bookkeeping
Every account reconciled, every transaction categorized, every month. You get a clean P&L and balance sheet you can read and use to make decisions.
See Full Details →Financial Reporting
A monthly P&L for each property and for the whole portfolio, revenue by platform, and a balance sheet showing occupancy tax you collected but haven't remitted yet.
See Full Details →Bank Reconciliation
Every business account and credit card matched and verified each month. No mystery charges. No unresolved transactions. No surprises.
See Full Details →Accounts Payable & Receivable
AP covers cleaners, maintenance, supplies, utilities and software bills. AR covers direct bookings, damage claims and payouts a platform still owes you.
See Full Details →Catch-Up Bookkeeping
Months or years behind? We clean it all up before monthly service starts, at a flat price per month behind that we quote up front.
See Full Details →Payroll Support
If you have employees, such as housekeeping staff or a property manager, Gusto runs payroll and files the payroll taxes, and we reconcile it to the books. Contract cleaners are tracked for 1099s.
See Full Details →"Very reliable, detail-oriented, and keeps my finances in perfect order. Their expertise and responsiveness make managing my business stress-free. Highly recommend!"
Short-Term Rentals
FAQ
Questions we hear from Short-Term Rentals before they sign on with Tides.
Based in Greenville, SC —
Serving Clients Nationwide
100% remote bookkeeping for small businesses across South Carolina and throughout the United States.
Beyond Short-Term Rentals,
We Serve All These Businesses
Tides Bookkeeping specializes in bookkeeping across 12 distinct industries. Industry-specific expertise means fewer errors, better categorization, and a bookkeeper who already understands how your business makes money.
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Focus on Your Guests.
We'll Handle
The Books.
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✔ Reviewed by Daniel Cope, Advanced QuickBooks ProAdvisor · Updated August 2026