For owners who want their home booked, not just managed.
A percentage of each booking, a one-off onboarding fee, and the freedom to leave on 30 days’ notice. Everything from the listing to the monthly statement is run for you.
Rate card Updated 29 October 2026
Straight Up Stays charges 15% of booking revenue on stays booked through a booking site such as Airbnb or Booking.com, and 20% on direct bookings made on the home’s own booking page on our website. There is a one-off £500 onboarding fee, paid when you sign. There is no lock-in, no exit fee and 30 days’ notice, and the revenue estimate is free. The percentage covers full management: pricing, the listing and marketing on 30+ booking sites, every guest, cleaning and repairs coordinated, and a monthly statement.
Updated 29 October 2026. For what management costs across the UK market, see our guide to Airbnb management fees.
Sources: Straight Up Stays terms, 29 October 2026. Airbnb’s fee: Airbnb Help Centre, “Airbnb service fees”, read 29 October 2026; it is Airbnb’s charge, taken before the payout, and separate from ours.
£67,500
A three-bedroom bungalow that had earned around £1,100 a month as a long let took a single booking of 546 nights at an average of £171.82 a night, paying out £67,500. That is one property, not a typical or guaranteed result. See The Bungalow.
Long stays like this are one of our two specialities, with direct bookings. Are mid-term lets worth it?
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Type what a stay brings in and choose where it was booked. You’ll see our fee and what’s left, drawn as the line on your monthly statement.
A week in summer, a long weekend in March, a month for a contractor: any stay works.
Straight Up Stays
Owner statement Example
Stay booked through a booking siteStay booked direct on your home’s booking page
£1,000
Want the whole journey, from what the guest pays to what lands in your account? The Airbnb payout calculator works through booking-site fees, cleaning and the management fee on each basis.
Direct bookings
Most holiday lets take every booking through a booking site. The site finds the guest, and keeps the relationship.
Each site takes its own fee before the money reaches you. On Airbnb’s host-only fee, most hosts pay 15.5% of every booking.
So every home we run gets its own booking page on our website, and we market it, so guests can book you direct with no booking-site commission.
A direct booking is found, taken and looked after by us from the first click to the review. That is the work the 20% pays for, with no booking site taking a cut beside it.
Direct bookings and mid-term stays are what we’re known for. See the homes guests can book direct, or read how direct bookings work for a holiday let.
What’s included
The percentage pays for the whole running of your home. The full list of more than 50 jobs is on our Airbnb management page; this is the short version, with the two lists every owner should see before signing.
Each one is in writing, next to your rate, before you sign.
Pricing models
There are four common ways to be charged for running a short let. Each one suits somebody. Pick one to see how it is paid, who carries the risk and when it fits.
This is how we charge for full management.
We offer this for selected homes only, under a separate company let agreement.
No lock-in, no exit fees, no charge for enquiring or for the estimate. You stay because it’s working for you.
Questions
Rather talk it through? Leo picks up the phone: 01271 447054.
Airbnb’s host-only fee: Airbnb Help Centre, read 29 October 2026.
15% of booking revenue on stays that come through a booking site such as Airbnb or Booking.com, 20% on direct bookings made on your home’s own booking page on our website, and a one-off £500 onboarding fee paid when you sign. There is no lock-in, 30 days’ notice and no exit fee. The revenue estimate is free.
Because the work behind it is ours from start to finish. We build and market your home’s own booking page, the guest books and pays there, and no booking site takes a commission. On a booking-site stay the site has done part of the finding and takes its own fee for it: on Airbnb’s host-only fee, most hosts pay 15.5%. So the direct rate is higher, and no booking site takes a cut alongside it.
Booking revenue, as defined in writing in your proposal before you sign: what counts, and how the guest cleaning fee and any booking-site fee are treated. Ask us to walk you through one booking, pound by pound, on the call.
It is a one-off £500 for onboarding your home, paid when you sign the agreement, and it is the only fee before your first booking. Your proposal lists what it covers for your home and how things like photography are handled.
No. Leave with thirty days’ notice, any time. No lock-in, no exit fees, no charge for enquiring or for the estimate. Bookings already in the calendar are dealt with in the handover, so guests are looked after either way.
The property itself, its permissions and insurance, your finance and your own tax, and decisions on bigger spending above the limit you set. How cleaning, linen, consumables, VAT and photography are handled for your home is written into the proposal, so nothing arrives as a surprise on a statement.
No. We pay for the market data behind it, and it is free to you. It sets out what your home could earn through the year, the running costs and our fee, so you see what lands with you before you decide anything.
Full management is almost always a percentage of booking revenue, often with VAT and set-up costs on top, and the headline rate matters less than what it includes. Our guide to Airbnb management fees in the UK compares the models and lists the questions to ask any company, us included.
For most homes, yes, because the manager is paid on what your home earns, so filling the quiet weeks pays them too. A fixed fee can suit a home that books steadily all year, but it costs the same in an empty month as a full one.
For selected homes, yes, under a separate company let agreement: we rent the home for a fixed rent and carry the booking risk ourselves. It isn’t right for every property, so it is assessed home by home after the estimate. Full management is our main service.
No. Bookings move with demand, pricing and the season, and nobody can promise them. What you get is a realistic range for your home with the assumptions shown, and a manager paid on a percentage of what it earns.
On your monthly statement, which shows every booking, the revenue, our fee, any agreed costs and your payout, line by line.
More on the money: Airbnb management fees in the UK, when management isn’t worth it and what the agreement should say.
Tell us about the property. You’ll get a realistic revenue range built from paid market data on comparable homes near you, with running costs and our fee set out, so you see what lands with you. Leo rings to talk you through it.
