occupancy-tax
Direct booking
Price disparity: what it means and why platforms undercut your own site
Price disparity means one stay carrying two different prices in two places. At a small property it usually runs the wrong way, with your own website asking more than your platform listing, and four settings cause most of it: a platform discount you fund, a child billed as an extra guest, a lodging tax counted twice, and two totals that were never comparable.
11 minute read
Direct booking
What is occupancy tax, and who collects it at your property
Occupancy tax is what a guest owes the local government for a short stay, and you are the one who collects it and sends it in. Here is who remits it on a direct booking, which platforms collect for you, how to register and file, and what to do if you have not been collecting.
12 minute read