Home›Free Guides›Commission Calculator
Free Tool · Accommodation

What Are Airbnb & Booking.com
Actually Costing You?

Most accommodation owners know the commission rate. Very few have worked out what it adds up to over a year — or five. Move two sliders and find out.

Your numbers

Rough figures are fine. You only need to be in the right ballpark for the total to be useful.

$
120 nights is roughly a third of the year — typical for a regional weekender.
How much of your business comes via Airbnb, Booking.com, Stayz and the like — rather than people booking you directly.
Rates vary by property, region and program. Pick the closest, or set your own.
Realistically, repeat guests and word-of-mouth are the easiest to shift first.
You're paying, every year
$4,500
in commission on 96 nights booked through platforms.
$22,500
Over the next five years
$1,350
Kept per year if you shifted 30% to direct
A $799 direct booking website would pay for itself in 3 nights of direct bookings.

Estimates only, based on the figures you entered. Commission rates vary by property, location, platform program and season — check your own statements for exact numbers. Nothing here is financial advice.

Want us to sanity-check these numbers?

Send us your property and we'll tell you honestly whether a direct booking site would pay for itself in your situation — and if we don't think it would, we'll say so. No charge, no obligation.

We'll include the numbers from this calculator so we're both looking at the same thing.

Something went wrong sending that — please email hello@localrankdigital.com.au or call (03) 9969 9097.

✅

Got it — we'll be in touch within one business day.

Worth saying

The platforms are not the enemy

They fill empty midweek nights, they reach people who have never heard of you, and for a new property they are genuinely the fastest way to get booked. The problem is not using them — it's using them for guests who would have booked you directly if they'd been able to. Repeat visitors, word-of-mouth referrals, and people who found you and then went looking for your website. Those are the ones worth owning.

Not sure where your bookings come from?
That's the first thing to fix.

We'll look at your listings, your website and your Google presence, and tell you where your direct bookings are leaking away. Free, and no obligation.

Get a Free Review → See Our Free Guides