What a holiday-let owner needs to know
For owners who let their place themselves. Fees, documents and offices, explained from the law, with the section behind every claim.
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Bookings and calendarDeposit and cancellation terms
How much deposit a cottage owner in Czechia can ask for, what a cancellation fee can rest on, and what a consumer guest must be told before booking. How to settle a cancellation with the right documents for a VAT payer and a non-payer, with links to the law.
Fees and taxesUbyPort step by step
How to get access to UbyPort and report your first foreign guests to the police: the registration request, up to 30 days of waiting, the form and the receipt. And what you risk if you miss the three working day deadline.
Fees and taxesBooking.com commission and VAT
A commission invoiced from abroad by Booking.com or Airbnb is taxed by you, not the portal. What a VAT payer and a non-payer must declare, register and file, and by when, with a link to the section of the law for each point.
Bookings and calendarSync Booking.com and Airbnb calendars
What iCal carries and why a double booking can still happen after the sync. How to set the calendar up in two directions and what to check afterwards.
Fees and taxesWhat an accommodation invoice must contain
What an accommodation invoice must contain for a VAT payer and a non-payer, when to issue it and how to show the tourist tax on it. Every point comes with a link to the section of the law.
Fees and taxesWhat a Czech guest book must contain
Czech law knows no "guest book", it knows the tourist tax evidence book and the foreigners' house book. We go through what belongs in which, when one record is enough, how long to keep them and when to report foreigners to the police.
Bookings and calendarWhich booking system for a cottage
A portal, a spreadsheet, or your own website with a system? Five questions a cottage owner with one or two properties should ask: where guests come from, what happens on booking day, what the law expects, what it costs per year and what happens to the data if you leave.
A booking system for cottages, with your own website
Calendar, payments matched to the bank, VAT invoices and the guest register. One system instead of five spreadsheets.