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Free STR what-if tool

Can a higher nightly rate make up for fewer booked nights?

Compare two scenarios after booking fees and operating costs. Change the rate and occupancy yourself to see what would need to be true.

Illustrative inputs, not market benchmarks. This tool does not predict how a price change will affect demand.

Use the same month, season or year for both scenarios. Exclude nights you will not offer.

Enter demand as
Current scenario
Operating cost assumptions
What-if scenario
Operating cost assumptions

Occupancy is booked nights ÷ available nights. Fractional nights are allowed for modeled averages; they are not a count of reservations.

Booking fees apply to room revenue only. Use your own effective percentage, not the example rate.

Include costs that rise with occupied nights, such as supplies and utilities. Allocate unrecovered turnover costs per night using your assumed stay length; do not enter a per-stay cost unchanged.

Include costs that remain even when empty, such as insurance and recurring subscriptions, for this period only.

The math, and what it leaves out

  1. Room revenue = nightly rate × booked nights.
  2. Contribution per booked night = nightly rate × (1 − booking fee percentage) − variable cost per night.
  3. Modeled operating result = room revenue − booking fees − variable costs − fixed period costs.
  4. When the what-if contribution is positive, nights to match = (current operating result + what-if fixed costs) ÷ what-if contribution per night, with a minimum of zero. Whole-night thresholds round up.

This is an educational operating-cost comparison, not full profit, taxable income or cash flow. It excludes financing and debt payments, depreciation, income and lodging taxes, capital purchases, reserves, refunds, and separately charged guest fees. It assumes constant average rates and costs within each scenario. Check stay length, seasonality, channel mix and your records before making a pricing decision.

Amounts are calculated before display rounding. Inputs stay in this page and are not saved or sent by this calculator.

Need to examine turnover costs? Use the cleaning fee calculator. For an annual income-and-expense scratchpad, visit the STR Tax Hub.