Author Archives: mxs

Airbnb – the tax position in Ireland

By | August 13, 2015

IRELAND: Be warned, Airbnb are legally obliged to give details of hosts income to the Revenue Commissioners in Ireland. Airbnb had stated that income from renting rooms was NOT taxable under the “rent a room” tax relief scheme The Irish Revenue’s position is that the “rent a room” relief scheme is not open to Airbnb… Read More »

New Booking Engine with room availability

By | July 22, 2015

You can see a preview of our new booking engine that shows availability by room on our demo website. Click Here Please feel free to test this new system and give us your feedback. The back end will be available in you MY-B&B admin panel shortly with the following features:- Minimum Stay on each and… Read More »

STRIPE Virtual Terminal

By | July 9, 2015

There are NO monthly charges with the STRIPE Virtual Terminal (VT) and you can use it to process credit card payments with or without the card. The graphic below shows the default VT – you can type credit card details into this, the money will be collected by STRIPE and forwarded to your banks account.… Read More »

Email Confirmations

By | June 26, 2015

We have received quite a bit of feedback recently about email confirmations not being received by guests and B&B Owners. I would stress that this is a problem that we have warned about for years. Due to extraordinary amounts of spam being sent, Internet Service Providers have to provide protection to their email users –… Read More »

STRIPE Account Holders

By | June 24, 2015

TIP: You can use your virtual terminal in a new way. Type in a booking reference and this will allow you to charge that guest using your STRIPE account – you can amend the description for the charge by overtyping. This is very useful for “No Shows” – guests leaving without paying or collecting cancellation… Read More »

B&B Owners Association

By | May 27, 2015

Looking after your interests The B&B Owners Association provides online marketing and booking services exclusively for B&Bs, Inns and Guesthouses. Using a collective marketing model, the price of managing and maintaining our members Internet presence is much reduced. Promotion worldwide on our directories, travel portals & regional websites Commission on bookings is as little as… Read More »