Practical guides for STR cleaning operators and Airbnb hosts.
How much short-term-rental cleaning costs in 2026, the four pricing models cleaning businesses use, and the line items that quietly bake an extra 30% into the per-clean rate.
The four cancellation scenarios that cost cleaning operators real money, what Airbnb's policies actually cover, and a tiered cancellation policy template you can put in writing with your hosts today.
Stop copy-pasting Airbnb checkouts into Jobber. The free, Jobber-native way to turn iCal feeds into scheduled cleaning jobs — with the cancellations, UID rotations, and timezone gotchas covered.
Vrbo's iCal feed looks identical to Airbnb's at first glance — and breaks differently in five specific ways that cost cleaning operators wasted truck rolls and angry hosts. The Vrbo-specific quirks every STR cleaning automation has to handle.
The tools an STR cleaning business actually needs at 1, 10, 25, and 50 properties — and what to skip until you're past each gate. Field service, calendar sync, payroll, accounting, customer comms.
What iCal is, how to grab the export URL from Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Hospitable, and Houfy, and the dates-vs-timezones details that bite every operator on their first integration.