Money & Performance
Cleaning Fee
The separate charge a guest pays for the turnover — not profit.
Why you care
It is a pass-through, and for most owners a slightly negative one. Believing it is profit leads owners to underprice the nightly rate to compensate for a “high” cleaning fee, which is the expensive part.
Worked example
You charge $150. Cleaner takes $125, laundry $15, consumables $18. You ran that turn at −$8, and paid a platform fee on the $150 for the privilege.
Taught in Assumptions About the Money