--- title: "Calculate comissions automatically using Channel Deals" description: "Take control of your commission costs with Zeevou's Channel Deals. Learn how to create and manage deals for channels like Booking.com to ensure accurate profit reports." url: https://support.zeevou.com/en-gb/articles/152-calculate-comissions-automatically-using-channel-deals collection: "Log Your Expenses" updated: 2026-11-04 language: en-gb --- # Calculate comissions automatically using Channel Deals Take control of your commission costs with Zeevou's Channel Deals. Learn how to create and manage deals for channels like Booking.com to ensure accurate profit reports. The **Channel Deal** feature in Zeevou allows hosts to define commission rates for different booking channels (such as Booking.com or Airbnb) to ensure commissions are accurately reflected in the **Monthly Performance Report (MPR)**. When a booking includes commission details from the channel, those values are shown directly in the MPR. If no commission is provided, Zeevou automatically calculates it using the predefined channel deal rate. The same logic applies to manual bookings, where the correct commission is applied based on the channel deal settings. Channel Deals also prevent overlapping agreements for the same channel, property, and time period, helping maintain clear, consistent, and accurate commission records. This automation reduces discrepancies, improves financial reporting, and gives hosts a clear view of their net earnings. **Access and Preview Mode (Financial Reporting Module)** The Channel Deals feature is part of the **Financial Reporting** module. If your account does not have this module active, you can still preview the page using sample (mock) data. ![Channel Deals page under Finance, showing deal filters and a table of commission deals by title, channel, dates, allocation, and actions. Visible: Channel Deals, Dashboard, Prices, Create a Deal, Unlock Financial Reporting, All Deals.](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelparticle/o1BBoem7TmeTKWnyj4oZwQjDTtVt6xSHmvCabzRgwUk8MI6xpDIC1XkyAbyb0bV9H9P9GD5UJae.png) **When viewing the page in preview mode:** - **Sample Data Notice:** A notice banner at the top of the page clearly highlights that the displayed information is sample data for preview purposes. - **Interactive Preview:** You can still explore the page layout and open the "Create a Deal" drawer to see how it works, though saving changes will require an upgrade. - **Locked Controls:** Action buttons, editing tools, and filters (like Channel or Listing filters) are temporarily disabled with helpful tooltips guiding you on how to unlock them. **How to Unlock Channel Deals** To start creating and managing your actual channel deals with live data, simply activate the **Financial Reporting** module: 1. Click **Unlock Financial Reporting** on the banner (or click **Unlock Feature** inside the Create a Deal drawer). Once updated, your live property data will instantly load, unlocking all filters, actions, and management tools. ## **How to Create a Deal** 1. Log into your [Zeevou account](https://app.zeevou.com). 2. Navigate to **Finance**, then **Channel Deal** on the main menu. 3. Click **Create a Deal** in the top right corner. 4. On the opened window, select  the channel you would like to create a Deal for. 5. Select the timeframe which must fall to the Booking's Arrival Date to qualify for this Deal. 6. Click **Proceed**. 7. On the opened drawer, adjust the **Financial Settings**: - **Percent Per Booking** - **Fixed Amount Per Booking** - **Expense Type** - **Invoice Frequency** 8. Set **Allocation** for **All Possible Listings** or **Specific Listings**. 9.  For **General Info**, enter - **Title** - **Description** (Optional) 10. Click **Create**. **Created Channel Deals Overview** You can view all created channel deals on the **Channel Deals** Dashboard. You can click on the three dots of each to select **View/ Edit** or **Delete**. You can click on the **Filter** icon to apply filters to view them. **How to Edit Each Deal** You can view three cards of **General Info**, **Financial Settings**, and  **Allocation** which can be updated on the opened deal. Note that new changes will adjust the Channel Commission on all **Not-finalised Bookings** associated with this Deal. ## Automatically Added Comission to the Bookings Commissions are automatically added in the following cases: 1. **API-Connected Listings**: If the listing is connected to a channel via API (e.g., Booking.com, Airbnb), the commission is automatically applied based on the channel's integration settings. 2. **Channel Deals for Manual Bookings**: If a manual booking is created and there's an existing **channel deal** set up for that channel, the commission will also be applied automatically. ## PRE and POST Channel Comission Types There are two types of channels used for calculating commissions: **PRE** and **POST**. - **PRE**: In this type, the channel deducts its commission before sending the booking to us, and we receive the remaining amount. Therefore, we must display the total amount paid by the guest, which is calculated as the _Total Price in XML_ plus the channel's deducted commission. - **POST**: Here, we receive the full reservation amount upfront. After the guest checks out, the host calculates the invoices with the channels. For example, **Expedia** operates as a PRE channel type. To calculate the commission for bookings where the channel has not pre-set a commission (such as SU), we use the following formula: - **Actual Total Price** = Total Price in XML ÷ (1 - (Channel Deal Percentage Per Booking ÷ 100)) - **Channel Commission** = Actual Total Price - Total Price in XML _Note_: This formula is a standard method we use for other organizations, and they are satisfied with it. If discrepancies arise between our calculations and Expedia's, we propose two possible solutions: 1. The Channel Deal percentage might need adjustment. 2. Expedia's calculation method should be reviewed. They might be using a different or updated approach, and we may need to align with it.