Numbers that explain themselves
Each month beside last year, the reason it moved, and the figure behind every sentence. Daybook never tells you what to charge.
The questions a host actually asks
Is this month as good as last year?
Where the month stands against the same month last year, by the same date: nights booked, money already in, and what is booked for the rest of the month.
Why is it different?
Whether a month moved because more or fewer nights were booked, or the same nights went at a different price, and what those nights usually earned. Tap Why Daybook says this for the working.
Compared with what?
Every comparison names its benchmark. Last year, when last year was a full year. Otherwise the middle of your full years, and it says which.
Which months are strongest?
Ask the clerk: a short list of questions with straight answers, like every month's income and nights last year beside a typical year, with what the ranking is based on.
What do these empty nights usually make?
Tap an empty night on the calendar and Daybook shows what that kind of night earned in the same month last year, how many of them sold, and whether that same night sold. Facts, never a price to set.
Gaps to fill
The open nights coming up, with what nights like them earned you last year.
A first read, then a letter every Friday
What I know about your places
The morning after you upload your past bookings, Daybook writes its first read: what your business is, the kind of year it has, your guests, how you price, your best months, and what it can't say yet.
The Friday letter
Every Friday, on your board: where you stand against last year, what Daybook took care of and noticed, and what it couldn't see. Every past letter is kept. Each one ends: The hosting is yours. The checking is ours.
The month closed
Early each month, the letter puts the last month in the books against last year, and sets up the month ahead.
Only money that reached you
Numbers counts payouts: from the history files you upload and the booking emails Daybook reads. Nights on your calendar with no payout yet count as nights, never as money. Anything that fails Daybook's checks is left out rather than guessed at.
Your past bookings
A CSV file from Airbnb, Booking.com or Vrbo, your own spreadsheet of direct bookings, or a letting agent's statement. Tap Import on your board to add one.
So the figures are true
Tell Daybook the cleaning and pet fees guests pay and what each site takes, and it works out what a night earned for the room.
How Booking.com pays you
A Booking.com confirmation shows the guest's price, not your payout. Say in Settings whether Booking.com pays you or guests pay you directly, and Daybook works out what reached you.
Costs
Add what a changeover costs you (cleaning, laundry, supplies, your time) and Daybook can show what a stay kept.
About Numbers
Does Daybook change my prices?
No. It never logs in to Airbnb, Vrbo or Booking.com and never moves a rate.
Will it tell me what to charge?
No. It tells you what your nights have earned and how many of them sold. The price is yours to set.
I'm new and have no history.
Numbers fills in as your bookings arrive. Where there isn't a year to compare against yet, Daybook says so rather than inventing a comparison.
What if a figure looks wrong?
Tap not right? beside the opening line and say what you expected. It is recorded for the person who builds Daybook to look at.
See your own morning in Daybook. You don't need a card.
£15 a month after the free trial, everything included. The first 50 hosts who pay become Founding Hosts and keep £15 a month for as long as they stay.