Optimise Your Airbnb Without Handing Over Full Control
We combine Airbnb support with revenue management to help owners and property managers improve performance without losing control. The result is a more supported, more optimised property with stronger foundations for guest experience and revenue growth.
This keeps the full calculator layout and sections in place, while adding your four co-hosting tiers for listing 1 and keeping the original stepped pricing for the rest of the properties.
Setup
Choose your co-hosting tier, revenue input, and service mode
Independent Hosts can now work from gross or net monthly income. Automatic tiering still follows the highest-earning property, while Property Managers keeps the original stepped pricing untouched.
Automatic tiering uses the highest income property. Turn on override if you want to manually place a client on a specific tier.
Override automatic tier selection
When off, the tier follows the highest income property. When on, you can force the tier manually.
Property Managers mode starts at a minimum of 6 properties and keeps the original pricing: listing 1 at AU$550, properties 2–10 at 1 hour per listing per week, 11–20 also at 1 hour per listing per week, 21–50 at AU$100 each, and 51+ at AU$50 each.
Accelerate mode is on. Higher-touch co-hosting support
Accelerate keeps the same fixed co-hosting tier, then layers the extra add-on by listing range on top.
Portfolio
Properties and monthly revenue
Independent Hosts uses the highest property after any gross-to-net conversion to choose the applied tier. Property Managers keeps its existing pricing structure untouched.
Property Managers mode has a minimum of 6 properties. It keeps listing 1 at AU$550, then properties 2–10 are 1 hour per listing per week, 11–20 are also 1 hour per listing per week, 21–50 are AU$100 each, and 51+ are AU$50 each.
Automatic handovers for Independent Hosts: Tier 1 to Tier 2 at AU$3,000, Tier 2 to Tier 3 at AU$6,000, and Tier 3 to Tier 4 at AU$7,333 based on the highest property net income.
Combined net incomeAU$ 0
Highest income propertyProperty 1 · AU$ 0
Net used for tieringAU$ 0
VA capacity controls
Choose whether to top up VA capacity
Full-time is 50 hours per week. Top-ups are billed monthly using weekly shortfall × 52 ÷ 12.
Make VA 1 full-time
Top up VA 1 to 50 hrs/week at AU$20/hr.
Add 2nd VA full-time
Available once VA 1 is full-time or when the hours naturally spill into VA 2.
VA top-up costAU$ 0
Total including top-upsAU$ 0
Dedicated hours
Dedicated VA hours schedule
Your current entitlement: —
Listing 1
0 hrs/week
No dedicated VA hours.
Your entitlement right now: —
Listings 2–10
2–10 hrs/week
Monthly = listings × 1, shown as hours per month.
Your entitlement right now: —
Listings 11–20
11–20 hrs/week
Weekly = listings × 1 for Property Managers in the 11–20 property range.
A live summary of the selected listing 1 tier, stepped co-hosting pricing for the rest of the properties, accelerate add-on, dedicated coverage, and any VA top-up costs.
AU$ 0Per month
Average per propertyAU$ 0 Per Month
Coverage shownTier-based
Base co-hosting feeAU$ 0
Accelerate add-onAU$ 0
Dedicated VA coverage0
VA top-up costAU$ 0
Listing 1 follows the tier you pick. After that, the calculator keeps the stepped co-hosting rates for properties 2–10, 11–20, 21–50, and 51+. Dedicated hours are hours allocated exclusively to your business so your VA can take direct instruction and handle the work you need completed.
How it works
What changes the number
Selected co-hosting tierSets listing 1
Property countTriggers the stepped co-hosting bands
AccelerateOptional add-on by range
Capacity controlsWeekly shortfall top-up
Pricing tiers
Pricing schedule
Property Managers mode has a minimum of 6 properties and keeps the original stepped pricing schedule with no tier selector.
Listing 1
AU$ 550
Property Managers mode — minimum 6 properties, original pricing with no tier system.
Listing 1 is currently using Property Managers at AU$550.
Properties 2–10
1 hr per listing / week
For Property Managers, this band is measured as 1 hour per listing per week for properties 2 through 10.
This band is currently active. Each extra property in this range is AU$300.
Properties 11–20
1 hour per listing per week
For Property Managers, this band is also measured as 1 hour per listing per week for properties 11 through 20.
This band is currently active. Each extra property in this range is measured at 1 hour per listing per week.
Properties 21–50
AU$ 100 each
The original stepped co-hosting rate for properties 21 through 50.
This band is currently active. Each extra property in this range is AU$100.
Properties 51+
AU$ 50 each
The original stepped co-hosting rate for properties above 50.
This band is currently active. Each extra property in this range is AU$50.
Frequently asked questions
Airbnb Management, Co-Hosting & Setup FAQs
These are the questions most owners ask before we help set up their property, pricing,
channel manager, and co-hosting systems.
Owner questions
The most common questions around setup, software, accounts, pricing systems, and how involved owners need to be.
Yes. We deliberately set properties up under your own accounts so you keep full control of your listings, systems, and operating assets. This is important because it means you are not locked into us the way many traditional property management models lock owners into their own infrastructure. If you ever decide to move away from our service, you still keep the foundations of your business and can continue operating without having to rebuild everything from scratch.
Yes. If you want to manage a property properly across multiple booking platforms, a channel manager is essential. It helps keep your calendars, rates, minimum nights, booking rules, guest messaging, and platform integrations organised in one place. Without one, you create more manual work, more room for mistakes, and a much higher risk of sync issues, pricing errors, or double bookings. For owners who want to operate professionally, a channel manager is not really optional.
Yes. If we are managing your pricing, dynamic pricing software is necessary. PriceLabs allows us to adjust your rates based on demand, seasonality, local events, booking pace, lead time, day-of-week performance, and market conditions. Static pricing leaves too much money on the table at the wrong times and can also hurt occupancy when rates are not adjusted fast enough. To manage pricing effectively and strategically, we need a proper dynamic pricing tool in place.
Yes. These are separate software subscriptions and are paid in addition to our service. We structure things this way intentionally because it protects you. If we were ever to step away, or if you ever chose to manage the property yourself, your software stack would still be yours and your property would still be operational. You are not renting access to our private system. You are building a real setup that stays with you.
As a guide, PriceLabs is roughly USD $30 for the first property and OwnerRez is roughly USD $55. Pricing is subject to change. As you add more properties, your total software cost usually increases, but the per-property value generally improves because software providers often discount more heavily at higher volumes. These tools should be seen as part of the operating cost of running a serious short-term rental business properly.
We prefer OwnerRez because it is one of the most powerful and well-priced channel managers available. It gives us more control, stronger functionality, deeper configuration options, and better operational flexibility than many simpler alternatives. For owners who want more than just a basic syncing tool, OwnerRez gives a much stronger long-term foundation. It is particularly useful when you want to build proper systems, manage multiple channels well, and keep more control over how your property is run.
Yes. We recommend it and all of our clients use it. IntelliHost’s Revenue IQ can be a very powerful addition when it is used properly because it adds another layer of revenue insight and pricing intelligence to the property. On its own, software does not create results, but when combined with the right setup and strategy, it becomes a very strong tool. For owners who want to take pricing performance seriously, it is highly recommended.
No, you do not. Our Airbnb course is included for free and is valued at $7,500, and it is designed to show you exactly how to do the setup yourself. That said, setup is not just about clicking buttons. It is about understanding why things are configured in a certain way and how those decisions affect performance, automation, guest experience, and long-term scalability. If you skip most of the lessons, the setup can still take you at least 30 hours, and even then you may not properly understand the reasoning behind the structure. The VA option exists to save you time and reduce mistakes.
Our VA support for channel manager setup, listing setup, and PriceLabs setup is $30 per hour, with an average build time of around 20 to 30 hours. During that process, we can help connect and structure your property across major OTAs and booking channels including Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Google, direct bookings, and other relevant platforms. The goal is not just to get you live, but to get you live with a system that is structured properly from the start.
The honest answer is that you need to be fairly involved, especially at the beginning. No one knows the property as well as the owner does. Your input helps shape what should be included in the listing, what needs to be improved in the property, how it should be maintained, what will create a better guest experience, and where there may be opportunities to increase revenue. Most property managers only focus on basic management. We are trying to build a stronger and more sustainable short-term rental business using strategies that many others simply do not use, and that requires real owner insight during setup.
Case Study
Turning Around Underperformance Through Airbnb Optimisation and Revenue Management
Challenge
BnB Management approached us with a clear concern. Their Airbnb listings were underperforming compared to market benchmarks. Despite being in high demand locations, occupancy rates were stagnating, pricing was inconsistent, and guest engagement had dropped noticeably over recent months.
The Result
We reached out to Scott from Wealth Through Property to assist with our revenue management and listing quality across our portfolio. Scott has been an integral part of improving both processes for our listings throughout South East Queensland.
His insight, communication, and strategic approach have helped elevate the performance of our properties and streamline how we manage them. We highly value his professionalism and the tangible results he has delivered for our team and clients.
When this property manager came to us, their portfolio was running smoothly but had lost its human touch. Automation had overtaken personality, and bookings no longer reflected how much they cared about helping their clients succeed.
They wanted their clients to get more more bookings, more income, more results. Our goal was to rebuild not just performance, but connection across their entire operation.
The Result
When this property manager came to us, their portfolio was running smoothly but had lost its human touch. Automation had overtaken personality, and bookings no longer reflected how much they cared about helping their clients succeed.
They wanted their clients to get more more bookings, more income, more results. Our goal was to rebuild not just performance, but connection across their entire operation.
