MANAGED STR REVENUE MANAGEMENT
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RevFactor charges a flat $350 per property per month plus a one-time $150 onboarding fee per property. That is the full rate for the managed service: 1 to 5 U.S. properties, a dedicated strategist, daily rate monitoring, and monthly reporting. No percentage of revenue.
Author: Federico Zimerman, Founder of RevFactor. He spent 10 years in airline revenue management at American Airlines before founding Blackbird Hospitality and RevFactor. LinkedIn.
Reviewed: by the RevFactor strategist process. Every RevFactor figure on this page is copied from a case-study page or the benchmarks post. Every vendor fee is read from the vendor's own pricing page on October 16, 2026. Last modified 2026-10-22.
What does RevFactor cost?
MONTHLY FEE
$350
per property per month, flat
Same price for 1 property as for 5. No revenue share.
ONBOARDING FEE
$150
per property, one time
Charged once at the start of each property.
Child listings on the same parent account add $50 per month each.
Portfolios past five properties move to enterprise pricing.
| Properties | Monthly | First month |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $350 | $500 |
| 2 | $700 | $1,000 |
| 3 | $1,050 | $1,500 |
| 4 | $1,400 | $2,000 |
| 5 | $1,750 | $2,500 |
First month is $350 plus $150 per property. Totals are multiplication, not a quote for a portfolio with child listings.
What is included?
The $350 per month covers the revenue-management layer, nothing else. The owner keeps guest communications, cleaning coordination, and the listing itself.
- A dedicated strategist with permissioned co-host access to the property management system (PMS)
- Daily rate monitoring against a built comp set of 10 to 15 comparable listings in the same submarket
- Monthly reporting on RevPAR, occupancy, ADR, and pacing versus same-time-last-year
- Minimum-stay and gap-night management inside the owner's own PriceLabs account
The strategist works in the owner's own PriceLabs account, which is the engine the service runs on. The fuller scope sits on the Airbnb revenue management service page, and the first-month review is described on the pricing audit page.
Co-pilot, not autopilot. The strategist manages the revenue decisions while the owner keeps full control of the listing, the guests, and the brand.
What Airbnb revenue managers charge in 2026
Published fees fall into two models: a flat fee per listing, and a percentage of revenue. Every row below is copied from the company's own pricing page, fetched on October 16, 2026, with the URL beside it. Where a page prints nothing, the cell says "Not published". The table is a record of what each page said that day. It is not a ranking and says nothing about which company is cheapest, because the plans include different things.
| Company | Published fee | Model | Onboarding or setup | Contract | Source and checked-on date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevFactor | $350 per property per month, flat | Flat fee per property | $150 one time per property | Month to month after a three-month minimum; notice period to end | revfactor.io/pricing, this page |
| Revenuenaire | Core plan from $225 per month for 1 listing; $565 per month for 5 listings | Monthly retainer by listing count | A one-time Pricing Strategy Setup is mentioned, price not published | Month to month; notice period not published | revenuenaire.com/airbnb-revenue-management-plans, checked October 16, 2026 |
| Enrich Revenue Management | $300 per month for 1 listing; $250 each for 2 to 4; $225 each for 5 to 10 | Flat fee per listing | One month of service, billed with the first month | Month to month, cancel anytime | enrichrevmang.com/pricing, checked October 16, 2026 |
| Revande | $130 per listing per month (Performance); $199 per listing per month (Maestro) | Flat fee per listing, no percentage of revenue | No setup fee printed | Not published | revande.com/pricing, checked October 16, 2026 |
| Surge Revenue Management | Full service $225 per listing per month for 1 to 5 listings; Monthly Oversight $399 per month for 1 to 10 units | Per listing, or a flat oversight retainer | Not published | Minimum 4 months on the Hire, Train & Oversee plan; other plans not published | surgerevenuemanagement.com/services, checked October 16, 2026 |
| Hostlyft | 1 to 2 units €120 per unit per month; 3 to 4 units €75; 5 to 9 units €60 (also listed in USD and GBP) | Per unit, tiered by portfolio size | No setup fee | Month to month, cancel anytime | hostlyft.com/pricing, checked October 16, 2026 |
| Revy | 5% commission on revenue | Percentage of revenue | Not published | Signed contract; 30-day written notice to end or pause | revypro.com/how-it-works, checked October 16, 2026 |
| PriceLabs (tool baseline, not a revenue manager) | Not printed on the page fetched today, which shows a 30-day free trial; $19.99 per month for a single U.S. listing was recorded on October 12, 2026 | Software subscription | Not published | Not published | hello.pricelabs.co/pricing, checked October 16, 2026 |
Hostlyft prints its prices in euros, dollars and pounds; the euro figures are shown as printed. Revy's own pages carry no recent date, so confirm its terms before relying on them. PriceLabs is a software tool and is shown only as the baseline a revenue manager works inside. For a scored comparison of the companies, see the ranked list of STR revenue management companies, and for the longer explanation of what a revenue manager does, read the revenue management guide.
Flat fee or percentage of revenue?
A flat fee costs the same whatever the listing earns. A percentage fee rises with revenue. The table below is arithmetic only, using RevFactor's flat fee of $350 per property per month ($4,200 a year) against a 5% and a 1% percentage model at two example revenue levels. The revenue levels are examples, not figures from any RevFactor property, and nothing here is a performance claim.
| Example annual revenue | Flat, $350 a month | 5% of revenue | 1% of revenue |
|---|---|---|---|
| $60,000 | $4,200 | $3,000 | $600 |
| $120,000 | $4,200 | $6,000 | $1,200 |
The flat fee equals a 5% commission at $84,000 of annual revenue and a 1% commission at $420,000. Below those revenue levels the percentage costs less; above them the flat fee costs less. The first-year onboarding fee of $150 is left out of the table, so the first 12 months of the flat model cost $4,350 per property.
What the comparison leaves out: a percentage model pays the manager more when revenue rises, which lines up incentives, while a flat fee gives you a cost you can budget. The fee model does not change the work. Check what each plan includes, who holds the pricing account, and how you can cancel.
Who is it for, and who is it not for?
IT IS FOR
- Owners of 1 to 5 U.S. short-term rentals who run guests and cleaning themselves.
- Hosts whose pricing gets checked only when time allows.
- Owners willing to give a strategist co-host access and let them make the rate decisions.
- Hosts who want to keep their own pricing account.
IT IS NOT FOR
- Owners who want someone to handle guests, cleaning and maintenance. That is property management.
- Portfolios past five properties, which move to enterprise pricing.
- Hosts who enjoy setting prices and only need software.
- Anyone expecting a full calendar. The target is RevPAR against a comp set.
What does the fee cost against actual results?
The STR revenue benchmarks post publishes numbers from seven case-study properties. As of the May 2026 data pull, those seven properties had $233,861 on the books for June to August 2026, against $94,280 at the same point in 2025. That is $139,581 ahead of the prior-year pace.
| Line item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Management fees (7 properties × $350 × 3 months) | $7,350 |
| Onboarding (7 properties × $150, one-time) | $1,050 |
| Total fees for the window | $8,400 |
| On-the-books revenue, summer 2026 | $233,861 |
| On-the-books revenue, summer 2025 (same point) | $94,280 |
| Ahead of prior-year pace | +$139,581 |
On-the-books (OTB) figures measured at the May 2026 data pull, not earned revenue. Seven properties across seven markets. Full property-by-property breakdown at the case studies. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
What did the fee look like against revenue on eight managed properties?
This table shows booked revenue for June to August 2026 against the same point in 2025 for each case-study property, by owner first name, with how long RevFactor has managed it. On 8 of 8 properties, booked revenue is higher than at the same point last year. The last column is arithmetic: three months of the $350 fee divided by the 2026 booked figure, from 1.5% to 6.9%. It excludes onboarding and child-listing fees.
| Owner | Property | Booked 2025 | Booked 2026 | Change | Months managed | 3 months of fee as share of 2026 booked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryssa | 2BR, Albion, MI | $5,851 | $22,985 | +292.8% | 8.2 | 4.6% |
| Zoey | 2BR, Glenwood Springs, CO | $8,692 | $29,327 | +237.4% | 6.2 | 3.6% |
| Thea | 3BR, Norton Shores, MI | $12,383 | $35,802 | +189.1% | 8.2 | 2.9% |
| Cecilia | 4BR, Hopkins, MN | $9,237 | $18,593 | +101.3% | 8.2 | 5.6% |
| Alisha | 4BR, Norfolk, VA | $9,706 | $15,244 | +57.1% | 8.2 | 6.9% |
| Sarah | 4BR, San Diego, CA | $15,537 | $30,859 | +98.6% | 8.2 | 3.4% |
| Elizabeth | 5BR, North Myrtle Beach, SC | $20,065 | $41,418 | +106.4% | 7.1 | 2.5% |
| Grant | 6BR, Gatlinburg, TN | $21,501 | $68,960 | +220.7% | 2.8 | 1.5% |
Method: booked revenue on the books for June, July and August 2026, measured at the May 2026 data pull, against the same booking-curve point in 2025 for the same listing. Change is the figure printed on each case-study page. Booked revenue is not earned revenue, and each row is one listing, so the table promises nothing for yours. The 4BR, Norfolk, VA property (Alisha) shows the smallest change of the eight at +57.1%.
What do the markets behind those properties look like?
A pricing strategist judges a listing against its market, so the market belongs beside it. Each row sets the property's booked occupancy beside the market's for the same months.
| Market | Market occupancy | Property booked | Index | RevFactor listings in market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Michigan / Western MI | 20.8% | 75.0% | 3.60x | Not stated |
| Glenwood Springs, CO | Not published | Not published | Not published | 5 |
| Lake Michigan / Western MI | 43.7% | 56.5% | 1.29x | Not stated |
| Minneapolis Metro, MN | 33.8% | 43.5% | 1.29x | Not stated |
| Norfolk, VA | 28.6% | 27.2% | 0.95x | Not stated |
| San Diego, CA | 23.7% | 29.4% | 1.24x | Not stated |
| North Myrtle Beach, SC | 51.0% | 56.5% | 1.11x | 14 |
| Smoky Mountains, TN | 41.6% | 55.4% | 1.33x | 31 |
Source: RevFactor's published case studies, May 2026 data pull, June to August 2026 window. Sample size: one managed listing per row; listing counts come from the case-study text where it states them. Two rows share the Lake Michigan market and print different market occupancy, so both are shown as published.
The second table sets each market's rate, revenue per available night and booking lead time beside it, so you can see whether a market sells on rate or on volume.
| Market | ADR | Occupancy | RevPAR | Lead time | Active listings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Michigan / Western MI (Norton Shores, MI) | $556 | 42.0% | $261 | 72 days | 56 |
| Glenwood Springs, CO (Glenwood Springs, CO) | $395 | 48.0% | $203 | 51 days | 264 |
| Minneapolis Metro, MN (Minneapolis, MN) | $208 | 48.0% | $104 | 40 days | 1,651 |
| Norfolk, VA (Norfolk, VA) | $243 | 46.0% | $124 | 34 days | 864 |
| San Diego, CA (San Diego, CA) | $402 | 54.0% | $224 | 48 days | 9,801 |
| North Myrtle Beach, SC (North Myrtle Beach, SC) | $389 | 38.0% | $165 | 66 days | 4,510 |
| Smoky Mountains, TN (Gatlinburg, TN) | $383 | 47.0% | $186 | 60 days | 4,019 |
Source: AirROI market summary (api.airroi.com/markets/summary), pulled 2026-10-16. Sample size: the active-listing count in the last column, for the one city named in brackets; the Lake Michigan row uses Norton Shores and the Smoky Mountains row uses Gatlinburg. AirROI's response does not state its measurement window, so these are market-wide figures for all listing sizes, not a match to the June to August window above. Nothing here is estimated.
What has the fee produced across the portfolio?
Across RevFactor's 322-listing portfolio, managed pricing runs +24% RevPAR versus the submarket comp set, measured as a 24-month rolling average, and orphan nights fell from 25.0% to 11.9% of vacant nights. The STR revenue benchmarks post prints the method for both. Read the case studies in full.
Sources and data
- Revenuenaire: https://revenuenaire.com/airbnb-revenue-management-plans/, checked October 16, 2026.
- Enrich Revenue Management: https://www.enrichrevmang.com/pricing, checked October 16, 2026.
- Revande: https://revande.com/pricing, checked October 16, 2026.
- Surge Revenue Management: https://surgerevenuemanagement.com/services.html, checked October 16, 2026.
- Hostlyft: https://hostlyft.com/pricing, checked October 16, 2026.
- Revy: https://revypro.com/how-it-works/, checked October 16, 2026.
- PriceLabs (tool baseline, not a revenue manager): https://hello.pricelabs.co/pricing/, checked October 16, 2026.
- RevFactor fee schedule: this page, current as of the last modified date above.
- Portfolio figures (322 listings, +24% RevPAR versus comp set, orphan nights 25.0% to 11.9%): STR revenue benchmarks 2026.
- Property figures: the eight published case studies, May 2026 data pull.
- Market figures: AirROI market summary, https://api.airroi.com/markets/summary, pulled 2026-10-16.
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