Visitor Levy for hostels
Hostels sell beds, not rooms, and often run far more individual bookings per week than a hotel of equivalent capacity. The billing model reflects that — and the calculation itself still runs per reservation, whatever the accommodation unit.
Bed-level accommodation model
A hostel property records its bed count as part of its profile, and is billed per bed rather than per property or per room — reflecting that a single hostel property can represent a much larger unit of taxable capacity than a typical short-term let or hotel room. The levy calculation for an individual booking works exactly the same way regardless: it's driven by that specific reservation's accommodation amount, stay dates and guest count, not by the bed count on the property record.
High-volume booking workflows
Hostels typically run a high volume of shorter, lower-value bookings compared with hotels or short-term lets — which makes manual entry impractical at any real scale. Import a booking export in bulk (up to 500 rows in a single batch calculation), and every row runs through the same calculation and data quality checks as a single manually entered booking: duplicate detection, suspicious nightly rate flags, and currency/VAT consistency checks all apply automatically across the whole file.
Keeping a busy quarter under control
With a high booking count, a small number of problem rows can be easy to miss. Return Readiness scores the whole period and lists exactly what's outstanding — bookings requiring review, an unresolved import error, a missing availability declaration — each linking to where it's fixed, so nothing has to be found by scrolling through every reservation individually before you file.
Check a single booking first
Try the free calculator with one bed booking's figures before importing a full quarter.