REAL HOST FEEDBACK

The moment the numbers finally started making sense

What hosts noticed after putting their bookings, platform fees and expenses in one place.

I almost went with a cheaper template. Then I saw that this one separates platform fees and taxes instead of just tracking deposits. That was the part I was actually missing.

Linda K.
Verified Buyer

At first, $37 felt high for a spreadsheet. Once I went through the demo file and saw how the income, expenses, properties and Tax Summary connect together, the price made much more sense.

Sarah M.
Verified Buyer

I already had my own spreadsheet, but it started getting messy once I added another property and another booking channel. This is built for that exact situation.

Michael R.
Verified Buyer

The value isn’t just in having dashboards. It’s being able to see the gross amount reported by the platform, the fees taken out, and what actually reached the business in one place.

Sarah M.
Verified Buyer

I didn’t want another monthly subscription just to organize rental numbers. A one-time $37 file that I can keep using across my properties was much easier to justify.

David T.
Verified Buyer

I’m not great with spreadsheets, so I expected this to be complicated. I had it set up in a few minutes and understood where everything went almost immediately.

James P.
Verified Buyer

I was worried I’d break a formula or enter something in the wrong place. The layout is much simpler than it looks, and the protected cells made me feel a lot more comfortable using it.

Rachel B.
Verified Buyer

I opened the demo first, followed how the sample bookings were entered, then copied the same process with my own numbers. That made the whole setup really easy to understand.

Daniel C.
Verified Buyer

I thought 13 tabs would be overwhelming, but I really only use a few of them day to day. Once the setup was done, the dashboards updated automatically.

Amanda H.
Verified Buyer

I’m definitely not an Excel person. I pasted in my booking data, added my expenses, and the summaries started making sense right away. Much easier than the spreadsheet I had built myself.

Robert S.
Verified Buyer

For the first time, I could clearly see why the income reported by the platform didn’t match what actually reached my bank. Seeing the fees and taxes separated finally made the numbers make sense.

Nicole W.
Verified Buyer

I used to have income in one sheet, expenses somewhere else, and platform statements in my inbox. Now I can look at one property and see its income, expenses, and actual performance in one place.

Kevin G.
Verified Buyer

The biggest difference for me was finally being able to compare my properties properly. One of the listings I thought was performing best was not the strongest once I looked at the full numbers.

Laura N.
Verified Buyer

I stopped trying to explain random deposits at the end of the year. Now I have the bookings, platform fees, expenses, and property totals organized before I send anything to my accountant.

Matthew D.
Verified Buyer

I always assumed the platform total and my payouts should match. Once I entered the bookings into the tracker, I could see exactly where the difference came from instead of guessing.

Christopher V.
Verified Buyer

I had one question while setting up my properties and got the clarification I needed. Knowing there was someone I could contact made me much more comfortable buying a spreadsheet this detailed.

Rebecca E.
Verified Buyer

The 14-day refund policy was what made me comfortable trying it. I knew I could actually open the files, test them with my own setup, and decide if they were right for me.

Jason Q.
Verified Buyer

I was worried I’d be left on my own if something didn’t make sense. Between the instructions, the pre-filled demo, and the option to reach out for help, I never felt stuck.

Laura N.
Verified Buyer

I had a setup question after downloading the tracker and the support made the process much easier. It was reassuring to know I wasn’t just buying a file and being left to figure everything out alone.

Steven M.
Verified Buyer

What gave me confidence was that the refund policy is straightforward. There aren’t a bunch of conditions attached to it, so trying the tracker felt like a much smaller risk.

Chloe B.
Verified Buyer

How it works

From download to your real number in under an hour

Nothing to install. No account to make. No permissions to grant. Open the file, answer three questions, and start pasting.

01

Three answers and setup is done

Your currency symbol. The month your tax year starts. Your listings.

That's it. Type them once on the Setup and Properties tabs and you never open those tabs again unless something about your business changes.

About 5 minutes
02

Paste a year of bookings in one go

Export your transaction history from the platform and paste it into the Income tab. Tag each row with its listing and its channel. Vrbo bookings, direct bookings, and Airbnb bookings sit in the same table, so there's nothing to merge later.

Expenses take four fields: date, listing, category, and amount.

Room for 8,000 bookings and 8,000 expenses
03

See what you actually earned

Pick a year and a property on the Annual Dashboard. The Tax Summary shows your gross earnings, every fee and tax the platform removed before paying you, and the figure that's left.

One line sits on its own: the fees and taxes you'd otherwise be taxed on. That's the number you were missing.

Tax Summary tab

What it does

Four things that change how your year ends

Not a list of tabs. The four places a multi-property host loses money or loses hours, and what the file does about each one.

Inside 01

Tax Summary

The Tax Summary tab takes the gross figure your platform reported and subtracts what it already took before paying you – host service fees, fast-pay fees, and the tax it collected from your guest. What's left is your net taxable base, filtered by year and by property, with the gap shown on its own line.

You stop declaring money that never reached your bank. And when your accountant asks where the number came from, you have it.

Tax Summary tab showing gross earnings with host service fees, fast-pay fees and platform-collected taxes subtracted to reach net taxable base
Inside 02

One ledger, every channel

Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Houfy and direct bookings all go into the same Income tab, each row tagged with its channel. The Setup tab holds 40 income entries in total, so there's room for every other platform you list on plus your own cleaning, pet and late-checkout fees.

No more parallel sheets that drift apart by March. One table, one set of totals, already reconciled when the questions start.

Income tab with bookings from Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and direct stays in one table, each tagged by channel
Inside 03

Per property, not per payout

Platforms deposit one pooled amount covering several listings. Tag each booking to its property and the Property, Comparison and Custom dashboards pull that lump sum back apart – income, expenses, profit and margin for each one on its own.

You find out which listing is carrying the others. That's the number behind renewing a lease, raising a nightly rate, or letting a property go.

Property dashboard showing income, expenses and profit split out for each individual listing
Inside 04

Set a target, then chase it

Give each property a monthly profit goal across a five-year window on the Properties tab. The monthly, annual, and 5-year dashboards then show actual against goal and how much is left to earn, calculated from the same bookings you're already logging.

This is the tab that keeps the file open in June. Tax comes once a year. A number you're chasing comes every month.

Annual dashboard showing profit against the annual goal with progress percentage
Inside 05

Every trip, logged and claimed

Log each drive as you make it–odometer start and end, where you went, and what it was for. Set your own rate per mile or kilometer, add the business-use percentage, and add the parking and tolls that came with it. The claim total builds itself as you go.

Most hosts never claim this, because they never wrote it down. The cleaning run, the key handover, and the hardware store–those miles are a real cost you're currently absorbing.

Distance tracker with odometer readings, business-use percentage, parking, tolls and total claim per trip
14 days to change your mind

14 days to change your mind

Email us within 14 days and you get a full refund. You don't need a reason, and you don't need to send anything back. Refunds go to your original payment method.

What you get

Everything in the download

One file, two copies, and the templates that come with it. No upsells, no add-ons.

  • The tracker – 13 tabs, 6 dashboards Tax Summary, Income, Expenses, Properties, Setup, Distance Tracker, Instructions, and six dashboards covering per property, monthly, annual, 5-year, comparison and a custom date range.
  • Two copies of the file A demo already filled with sample bookings so you can see every dashboard working, and a blank one ready for your own numbers.
  • Excel and Google Sheets Both versions in the same download. Use whichever you already have — you don't need both.
  • Room for 12 properties and 8,000 bookings Each listing gets its own dashboard. 8,000 rows on Income, 8,000 on Expenses, and 40 income categories you can rename.
  • Setup guide and CSV walkthrough Five minutes to set up. Step-by-step instructions for importing your platform's transaction export.
  • 18 guest guidebook templates IncludedEditable in Canva. Add your check-in steps, wifi code, house rules and local recommendations, then send guests the link.

$37 once. No subscription.

Instant download · 14-day refund · Excel and Google Sheets

Most trackers log numbers. This one separates them.

A single-listing host can use almost anything. Once payouts arrive pooled and fees come off at source, the difference starts costing money.

Slate Studio Tracker
A basic template
Fees separated from gross
The Tax Summary tab subtracts host service fees, fast-pay fees and platform-collected taxes from gross, and shows what's left
Logs the figure the platform reported, which is gross
More than one channel
Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Houfy and direct bookings in one table, tagged by channel. The Setup tab holds 40 income entries in total
Built around one platform. A second channel means a second sheet
More than one property
Up to 12 listings, each with its own dashboard. Tag a booking to a listing and a pooled payout comes apart
Usually one listing, with totals that don't split
Reading the numbers back
Six dashboards: per property, monthly, annual, 5-year, comparison and a custom date range
Column totals at the bottom of a sheet
Outside the US and UK
Any currency symbol, any tax year start month. No rates or bands built in, so nothing has to be stripped out for your country
Often assumes one country's tax year and one currency
Works everywhere
Excel and Google Sheets, both included
One format; often breaks between them
What it costs
$37 once. The file is yours, and nothing expires
$6 to $10 for a template, or from about $15 a month for bookkeeping software, forever

Before you buy

The questions hosts actually ask

If yours isn't here, email contact@slatestudioco.com and a person answers.

$37 for a spreadsheet, isn't that steep?

I'm not good with spreadsheets. Will I actually be able to use this?

How do I know this will actually make a difference for me?

It's a download. Can I actually get a refund?

There are free Airbnb spreadsheets out there. Why pay for this one?

How long is this going to take me to set up?

Does it work in my country?

Is this tax advice?

Will it work with my booking platform?

See what you actually earned

Your platform reported one number. Your bank received another. The Tax Summary shows you the difference, per property and per year.

Instant download · 14-day refund · No subscription