HostingBooks was built by a team of CPAs and short-term rental owners. We couldn't find bookkeepers who actually understood how STR income works, so we built HostingBooks ourselves. We reconcile every booking channel and close your books every month, so you always know exactly where you stand.
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Send us access to your current books, whatever shape they're in. We tell you plainly what's clean, what's missing, and what it'll take to get current, before you're a client.
A chart of accounts built for multi-channel payouts, historical books cleaned up, and your reporting set up the way an owner actually wants to read it.
Monthly reconciliation across every booking channel, clean financial statements, and a standing eye on the permits and filings your listings carry.
One monthly rate, no surprise add-ons for doing the job properly.
Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, and direct bookings, reconciled separately so payouts, fees, and refunds never get lumped together.
Nightly revenue, cleaning fees, platform fees, and owner payouts, broken out and not buried in one line.
A P&L and balance sheet you can actually read, delivered on a predictable schedule every month.
Managing listings for other owners? Each one gets their own statement, broken out from the rest of your portfolio.
Messy books get caught up as a one-time project, billed on its own, so it never distorts your ongoing rate.
A standing eye on permit renewals, business licenses, and occupancy tax filings for your listings, bundled in and not upsold separately.
Clean books handed off to your tax preparer every year, and we're glad to get on a call with them directly.
You work with someone who actually understands STR income, not a rotating pool or a support queue.
No tiers to compare or features to unlock. Every listing gets the full service, priced to your portfolio's size and complexity.
Every booking channel reconciled and closed out every month, on a predictable schedule.
A P&L and balance sheet built around how STR income actually works, delivered monthly.
A standing eye on permit renewals, business licenses, and occupancy tax filings, bundled in and not upsold.
Clean books handed off to your tax preparer every year, with direct coordination when needed.
We'll look at your books and tell you exactly where you stand: what's clean, what's missing, and what it would take to get current. Continue only if it's the right fit.
Get your free reviewGeneralist bookkeepers treat a short-term rental like any other small business. It isn't one. Payouts land across multiple platforms on different schedules, and a chart of accounts built for a generic small business misses how STR income actually breaks down. HostingBooks was started by a team of CPAs who own short-term rentals themselves, so this isn't advice from the outside. It's the system we built for our own listings first.
Reconciles what shows up in the bank feed and calls it done. Airbnb, VRBO, and direct payouts all get lumped into one messy category.
Reconciles every booking channel separately, so payouts, fees, and refunds are always broken out and traceable.
Uses the same chart of accounts as any small business, whether it fits a rental or not.
Uses a chart of accounts built around how STR income actually works: nightly revenue, cleaning fees, platform fees, and owner payouts, each its own line.
Prices by the hour, so you don't know your bill until it arrives.
Prices by portfolio size within a clearly scoped plan, so you know the rate going in, and anything outside that scope is quoted separately, not silently added to an invoice.
Treats your permits and tax filings as entirely your problem to track.
Keeps a standing eye on the permits and occupancy tax filings your listings carry, bundled into the same monthly rate.
No. We handle monthly bookkeeping, reconciliation, and financial statements. We hand off clean books to your CPA for annual tax strategy and returns, and we're glad to coordinate directly with them.
Yes, that's normal. Historical cleanup is quoted and billed separately from your ongoing monthly rate, so getting caught up doesn't distort what you pay going forward.
We keep track of your STR permits, business licenses, and occupancy tax filings, and flag anything coming up for renewal. It's bundled into your monthly rate as a standing part of the service, not a separate product. It's a useful extra on top of clean books, not the main event.
Yes, absolutely. Many of our clients start with one listing and are growing real estate entrepreneurs building toward more. We'll get your books right from the start, so scaling up later is that much easier.
Free books review, no commitment, just a clear picture of what's clean and what isn't.