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Property Owner Statement Settings

Written by Djardi Messaoud

A financial reconciliation tool that lets property managers create, customize, and finalize monthly statements for each property owner, showing rental income, commissions, expenses, and taxes in one place.

What is a Property Owner Statement?

A Property Owner Statement is a monthly financial summary that you prepare for each property owner. It brings the numbers from a given period into a single document and, once finalized, is shared with the owner through their Property Owner Portal.

Each statement shows the following totals:

  • Rental income: gross earnings from reservations in the period, based on the selected calculation method and before deducting channel host fees.

  • PM commission: your fee for managing the property

  • Expenses and adjustments: out-of-pocket costs and credits

  • Taxes: taxes computed across PM commission and expenses

  • Due to property owner: the final amount payable to the owner

Every statement is tied to one property, one owner, and one period, typically one month.

Why use Property Owner Statements?

  • Replace spreadsheets and manual reconciliations with structured records in one centralized place.

  • Keep property owners informed through a published statement that they can view in their portal

  • Maintain version history when finalized statements are edited

  • Handle multiple brands and changing contract terms without losing historical accuracy

Roles and permissions

When it comes to owner statements, the following roles have the permissions below:

  • Account Owner & Administrator: Configure business settings and finalize statements.

  • Accountant: Finalize statements.

  • Property Owner: View-only access to their finalized statements in the Property Owner Portal.

Note: ‘Open’ / ‘In Review’ statements are not visible to property owners. Only when you finalize a statement does it become visible to the owner.

Recommended setup before your first statement

These are the items you'll typically want in place before creating your first statement:

  • The property owner has been invited and has accepted the invitation

  • At least one brand has been defined in Profile > Business Settings

  • The current contract start date has been set on the property

  • The tax profile has been created in Profile > Business Settings

  • The relevant tax profile and brand have been selected for the property’s business model

Set up Profile Business Settings

Profile Business Settings are available only to the team owner under Profile > Business Settings.

This section contains the account-level settings used for Property Owner Statements, including:

  • Base currency

  • Calculation method

  • Brands

  • Tax profiles

Base currency

The base currency is the main currency used for the account. It is also used as part of a statement-related financial setup.

Reservations and expenses can use a currency different from the statement currency. When this happens, conversion rates are requested from iGMS. For the conversion rules, including the last day of the period for finalized statements and close to the current day for open ones, see the Currency conversion section in the Property Owner Statement Calculation article.

Calculation method

The calculation method controls how reservations are allocated to statements. This setting determines which statement period a reservation lands in.

The available calculation methods are:

  • By check-in date: The full Rental Income and full PM Commission land in the statement that contains the check-in date, or the first date that falls into a statement.

  • By check-out date: The full Rental Income and full PM Commission land in the statement that contains the check-out date.

  • By stay dates: The amounts are split between statements proportionally to the nights that fall in each period.

Brands

Brands let you group properties under different operating names. A typical example is a single account operating two brands, such as "Cozy" and "Fiddler."

Brands can be edited but cannot be deleted, so set them up thoughtfully.

Each brand can contain details such as the brand name, location, email, phone number, and logo. The selected brand appears on Owner Statements.

Tax profiles

Tax profiles define which taxes apply to statement calculations. They are used when calculating taxes on PM commission, services applied to PM commission, and expenses.

A tax profile can later be selected in the property’s business model setup from the property’s Management tab.

Configure statement settings on the property

Property-specific statement setup is managed from the property editor, under the Management tab.

Property owner

Each property can have one property owner assigned to it.

A property cannot have two property owners in the same team. If real-world ownership is shared, the property must be created in a separate team with a different owner.

Current contract start date

The current contract start date is the date from which the current agreement with the owner applies.

This date interacts with statement branches and transition-date logic. For the full mechanics, see the Statement branches section in the Property Owner Statement Calculation article.

Business model setup

The business model setup is accessed from the property’s Management tab by clicking Change in the business model card.

From this page, you can configure:

  • The business model type

  • PM commission settings

  • Tax profile

  • Brand

  • Statement settings

How reservation settings are applied

A reservation is always calculated with the settings of the first statement where it first appeared.

This includes:

  • The PM commission business model

  • The PM commission percentages

  • The reservation timing setting

  • All split share configurations

If you change any of these settings later, only new reservations, meaning reservations that have not yet appeared in any statement, will use the updated settings. Reservations that already appear in a statement will keep their original settings in every subsequent statement they touch.

Reservation changes are corrected in later calculations

When calculating each statement, the system checks the amount that has already been paid against the amount that should have been paid by the end of the statement period. This helps correct statement amounts when a reservation is altered after it has already appeared in a previous statement.

For example, if a reservation is changed after an earlier statement period, the system can account for the difference in the relevant later statement instead of treating the reservation as completely new.

Configure PM commission

How you configure commission depends on the business model selected for the property in the Management tab in the business model settings.

Model 1: None

If the business model is set to None, PM commission is always zero for every reservation.

Rental income still appears in the statement and the Due-to-owner total still calculates normally. Only the PM commission line is zero.

Use this option if you want statements to track rental income, expenses, and the amount due to the owner without taking a commission.

Model 2: Basic

In the Basic model, the base for PM commission is fixed at Accommodation after discounts, also known as the base price. You configure the commission percentage and a minimum fee per reservation.

Configure the following:

  1. Platform-specific percentages: Set percentages for the desired booking platforms in your account. When a reservation comes from a platform you have configured, that percentage is used.

  2. Other platforms percentage: A fallback percentage applied when a reservation comes from a platform you have not explicitly configured.

  3. Minimal PM Commission per reservation: A floor amount. The system first calculates the percentage-based commission, then compares it to this minimum. If the calculated commission is lower than the minimum, the minimum is used instead. The result can never exceed Accommodation after discounts for that reservation.

Expressed as a formula:

PM commission = min(Accommodation after discounts, max(percentage * base, Minimal PM Commission per reservation))

Model 3: Advanced

In the Advanced model, your PM commission has two parts that are summed together:

Total PM commission = Basic part + Split share part

Basic part

Choose the base the percentage will be applied to.

Available bases:

  • Accommodation after discounts: The base price

  • Cleaning fee: Cleaning fee on the reservation

  • Pet fee: Pet fee on the reservation

  • Linen fee: Linen fee on the reservation

  • Other guest fees: Guest fees not covered by the categories above, from new reports

  • Channel host fee: The fee the channel charges the host

  • Payment processing fee: Payment-gateway fees

  • Closed Resolution Amount: Sum of closed resolution amounts from transactions plus the closed resolution sum from the reservation. Airbnb only.

  • Canceled Reservations: For canceled reservations only, the expected total payout is used as the base. Always 0 for non-canceled reservations.

  • Unrecognized Revenue: For now, always 0. In a future release, its value will be open to modification.

After choosing a base, set the percentage. The same minimum and cap rules from the Basic model apply to this basic part of the Advanced commission.

Minimal PM Commission per reservation is the floor for the basic PM commission calculation. In the Basic model, this result cannot exceed Accommodation after discounts. In the Advanced model, the basic PM commission uses the same formula as the Basic model, while the split share commission is calculated separately and added to the basic part.

Split share part

Add as many split share components as you need. For each, set the percentage that goes to the property manager.

Available components:

  • Cleaning fee

  • Pet fee

  • Linen fee

  • Other guest fees

  • Closed resolution amount

  • Canceled reservations

  • Unrecognized revenue

The split share part of your commission is the sum of percentage × component amount for every component you've configured.

Note: A component cannot appear both as the base for the basic part and as a split share.

Minimum split share for the cleaning fee

For the Cleaning fee split share specifically, you can set a minimum flat split share amount.

Note: The minimum field can only be modified when the manager retains the full cleaning fee, meaning 100%. If the cleaning fee is split with the owner in any way, the minimum field is locked.

Taxes

Tax profiles are created in Profile > Business Settings and selected for a property through the business model setup in the property’s Management tab.

The current release uses a single tax model: the owner is the merchant of record for taxes, not the property manager. Taxes flow through to the owner's side of the statement.”

Taxes in the statement are calculated from the property’s tax profile. They can apply to the PM commission, services applied to the PM commission, and expenses, including separate tax rules for expenses categorized as Services or Supplies.

The full tax formula is described in the Property Owner Statement Calculation article.

Brand used in statements

Brands are created in Profile > Business Settings and selected for a property through the business model setup in the property’s Management tab.

The selected brand appears on the Owner Statement. This helps teams that manage properties under different operating names keep owner-facing statements aligned with the correct brand.

Statement settings

Statement settings are configured from the property’s business model setup.

Available settings include:

  • Details for the reservations: lets you choose which reservation details are shown on the statement, such as guest name, reservation dates, platform type, and nights.

  • Null reservations included: includes reservations with a zero balance in the statements.

Create, edit, and finalize a statement

Statement states

  • Open: The statement is being prepared. It can be edited and is not visible to the property owner.

  • In Review: The statement has been prepared and is being reviewed before finalization. It is not visible to the property owner yet.

  • Finalized: The statement is published and visible to the property owner in their portal.

  • Replaced: A previous version of a finalized statement that was edited. It is kept in history for audit purposes.

Versioning

When you edit a finalized statement and save the changes, a new version of the statement is created. The previous version is marked as Replaced and kept in history so you keep an audit trail of finalized changes.

Chronological finalization

Statements must be finalized in chronological order. For example, if February, March, and April are still open, you cannot finalize May first. The system will block the action.

Finalizing the statement

Only the Account Owner and the Accountant role can finalize a statement. `cannot finalize.

To finalize, we can enter the statement that is currently ‘In Review’ from the ‘View’ embed button and click the Finalize button.

Reopening a finalized period

If you need to add an expense or make a correction after finalizing:

  1. Open the finalized statement.

  2. Click Reopen period.

  3. Make your changes.

  4. Finalize the statement again.

Note: You cannot delete expenses that were part of the finalized version. You can edit or add expenses after reopening, but the original finalized expenses remain in the record.

Expenses and adjustments

You can log expenses and adjustments in two places:

  1. The dedicated Expenses and Adjustments tab

  2. Directly inside a statement

Sign convention

  • Expenses are positive. They represent money you spent on behalf of the property, such as supplies, services, or a loan advanced to the property.

  • Credits are negative. They represent refunds, offsets, or amounts returned to the owner.

Category

Every expense is classified as either:

  • Service: labor or services, for example, paying a handyman to fix the heater.

  • Supplies: physical items bought for the property, for example, buying and installing a replacement window.

The category matters for tax computation. The property's tax profile defines separate tax rules for Services and Supplies.

Concept and description

  • Concept: A short title for the expense, for example, "Window replacement."

Tax profile

The tax profile is inherited from the property and cannot be edited per expense. However, we can add custom taxes that are related to the expense only.

Editing rules

The expense can have two statuses:

  • Draft: the expense can be modified or deleted.

  • Finalized: the expense cannot be modified or deleted. If you want to make some corrections, you can add a new expense with the ‘Credit’ type.

FAQs

Can two property owners share a single property in the same team?

No. One property has exactly one property owner. If real-world ownership is shared, the property must be created in a separate team with a different owner.

What happens if I change my PM commission settings mid-year?

Reservations are always calculated with the settings of the first statement where they appeared. Any reservation that has already been included in a statement keeps its original settings. New reservations will use the updated settings.

Can I delete a brand?

No. Brands can only be edited, not deleted.

Can property owners edit a statement?

No. Property owners have view-only access to their finalized statements.

Which business model should I pick?

Choose None if you don't take a commission, Basic if you charge a flat percentage of the rental amount with optional platform overrides, and Advanced if your contract takes different shares from different fee types or uses a non-standard base.

Troubleshooting

  • I can't finalize a statement.

    • Check whether any earlier periods are still open. Finalization must be done in chronological order.

  • The numbers don't match the owner's expectations.

    • Verify the current contract start date on the property card, the business model, the per-platform percentages, and the Minimal PM Commission per reservation setting. For a deeper breakdown of the math, see the Property Owner Statement Calculation article.

  • A reservation seems to have used the wrong commission settings.

    • Reservations lock in the settings of the first statement where they appeared. Check whether the reservation first appeared under older settings.

  • I can't edit an expense inside a statement.

    • The statement is likely finalized. Click Reopen period first.

Have more questions? Please feel free to reach out to us at [email protected], and we will gladly help as best and as fast as we can.

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