{"id":13706,"date":"2026-09-09T15:21:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apartmore.pl\/short-term-rental-management-price-list\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:21:13","slug":"short-term-rental-management-price-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apartmore.pl\/en\/short-term-rental-management-price-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-term rental management price list: commissions, fees and what actually remains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Short-term rental operators in Poland usually take between 15 and 30 percent. That range says less than it seems, because two companies quoting the same number can leave the owner with completely different amounts. What decides it is the base they charge the commission on and what they add on top of it.<\/p>\n

Below is a rental management price list broken down into parts: what the commission is calculated from, which fees appear alongside it, which two taxes are always in the bill, how to work out what actually remains, and what to ask before you sign a contract. At the end we give our own terms, so there is something to compare against.<\/p>\n

Commission on revenue or on income? That is the main question<\/h2>\n

A commission on revenue is calculated on everything the guest paid. A commission on income is calculated on what remains after booking costs, meaning the platform commission, payment fees and similar items. The same 20 percent therefore means something different in each model.<\/p>\n

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Item<\/th>\nCommission on revenue<\/th>\nCommission on income<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Guest payment (gross price)<\/td>\n10,000 PLN<\/td>\n10,000 PLN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VAT 8% on the accommodation service, paid to the tax office before any split<\/td>\n\u2212741 PLN<\/td>\n\u2212741 PLN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Booking platform commission (15% of the guest price, for example)<\/td>\n\u22121,500 PLN<\/td>\n\u22121,500 PLN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Base for the operator’s commission<\/td>\n10,000 PLN<\/td>\n7,759 PLN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Operator’s commission, 20%<\/td>\n\u22122,000 PLN<\/td>\n\u22121,552 PLN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Left to the owner before the fixed costs of the flat<\/strong><\/td>\n5,759 PLN<\/strong><\/td>\n6,207 PLN<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

The figures are illustrative, rounded to whole z\u0142oty, and serve to show the mechanics rather than to forecast revenue. They leave out smaller items, such as VAT on the platform commission. At the same percentage rate the difference here is 448 PLN a month. Over a year that is more than 5,000 PLN.<\/p>\n

The question to put to every operator is: what amount do you calculate your commission on?<\/strong> On what the guest paid, or on what is left after VAT and the platform commission. These are two different things, even though both price lists call it \u201e20 percent”.<\/p>\n

Two taxes that are in the bill whoever runs the flat<\/h2>\n

Before you compare commissions, it is worth knowing two items that are not a cost of working with a company but a cost of short-term rental itself. They are paid the same way when an operator runs the flat and when the owner rents it out by the night alone. The difference is that with an operator they are counted from day one and visible in the statement.<\/p>\n

VAT at 8 percent.<\/strong> Short-term accommodation is a service covered by this rate. When the sale goes through an operator, every guest payment contains the tax, the operator pays it to the tax office, and only the net amount is split between the owner and the company. In the example above, 741 PLN out of the 10,000 PLN payment goes to the tax office. The tax is included in the price the guest pays. All accommodation providers quote prices with the tax, so the guest compares offers on the same terms and your flat does not come out more expensive because of it. Renting on your own, a subject exemption applies up to 240,000 PLN of annual sales, but then there is no operator either and you handle everything yourself.<\/p>\n

Property tax at the business activity rate.<\/strong> A flat rented by the night pays property tax as premises connected with business activity, not as a home. In Gda\u0144sk for 2026 that is 35.53 PLN per square metre a year instead of 1.25 PLN. For a 50-square-metre apartment the difference is around 1,700 PLN a year, roughly 140 PLN a month. The matter was settled by a resolution of seven judges of the Supreme Administrative Court of 21 October 2024 (III FPS 2\/24): repeated short-term rental is in essence a service close to hotel services. You pay the tax to the city, usually in four instalments, and it belongs in the fixed costs of the flat.<\/p>\n

We covered both topics in more detail, together with the flat-rate tax, the tourist tax and property registration, in our article on taxes and the legality of short-term rentals in Gda\u0144sk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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An apartment in our management. Photo: Apartmore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rental management price list: fees beyond the commission<\/h2>\n

The commission alone is rarely the whole cost. Price lists and contracts contain items that are easy to miss when comparing offers:<\/p>\n