Short-Term Rental Accounting Scorecard

The Short-Term Rental Accounting Scorecard grades your operation on the 21 practices that separate audit-ready property managers from the ones scrambling every month-end. Score yourself in minutes and see exactly where to focus next.
Download the scorecard, see where you stand, then book a call to review your results with our team.
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Download your free scorecard and learn how to:

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Stop guessing and start measuring with a clear score for every area of your accounting, not a vague feeling that things are "probably fine."

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Protect your trust account by spotting gaps in reconciliation, advance deposits, and lodging tax before someone else does.

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Plug revenue leakage by reconciling every OTA payout to its reservation, and every reservation to cash.

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Know exactly what to fix next with a maturity path that shows which habits to build first.

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Breeze through year-end by tracking vendor payments the right way long before taxes are due.

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Make decisions on real numbers by tracking the right financial metrics across your business.

What's inside

21 checkpoints. Three pillars. One honest score.

Each column is ordered by maturity, from the foundations every operation needs to the practices of the most disciplined teams.

Property Accounting
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The trust-accounting fundamentals: where guest money lives, how it's reconciled, and whether taxes reach the right jurisdictions on time.

  • A dedicated trust account for reservation revenue
  • Monthly bank-to-trust reconciliation
  • OTA payouts matched to reservations and cash
Operations Accounting
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The day-to-day engine: expenses, fees, vendor payments, and the cash management that keeps every owner payout covered.

  • Billable expenses tracked by property
  • Accrual-basis revenue and cost reporting
  • Revenue leakage trending toward zero
Reporting & Analysis
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The insight layer: whether your numbers actually reach owners and decision-makers, on time and in a form they can act on.

  • Monthly property-level income statements
  • Take rate and margins tracked by property
  • Real-time dashboards leaders actually use

From download to action plan in four steps

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Download it free

Fill out the short form and get instant access to the one-page PDF.

2

Check what's true today

Be honest. Only tick a box if it happens consistently, not "most months."

3

Total each column

Score each pillar out of 7 and see where your operation is strong and where it's exposed.

4

Fix your lowest column first

Start at the bottom of the maturity path and work up, or book a free review and build your plan with our team.

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