Cleaning Fee

The cleaning fee is the separate charge a guest pays to cover resetting the property between stays. In theory it is a pass-through, but in practice it only breaks even if it matches what your cleaner actually bills per turn. When the fee falls short, the difference quietly becomes a cost you absorb on every booking.

There is also a volume effect: the more bookings you take, the more turnovers you pay for, so a busy month means more cleaning, not just more revenue. Set the fee too high, though, and it can discourage short stays, since a one or two night guest sees the flat fee spread across very few nights.