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STR Business Scorecard

See the truth
in your STR business.

Score. Diagnose. Improve.

See where your STR business is strongest, where it's weakest, and the three things to focus on next.

Built from the lessons behind a £346k UK STR portfolio and growing direct bookings from 3% to 25%.

STR Business Scorecard

Example

Overall Score

68 /100

Score band

Strong

Scorecard Categories

Your Score

  • 1Revenue & Pricing72 /100
  • 2Direct Bookings38 /100
  • 3Marketing & Conversion61 /100
  • 4Systems & Automation66 /100
  • 5Owner Independence59 /100
  • 6Guest Experience81 /100

Strongest area

Guest Experience

81%

Biggest opportunity

Direct Bookings

38%

Your three priority fixes

  • 1Improve direct booking capture
  • 2Tighten pricing review routine
  • 3Reduce owner reliance with better systems
  • £346k

    Revenue generated from our own short-term rental portfolio.

  • 3% → 25%

    Direct bookings grown from a fraction of demand to a quarter of it.

  • 6 areas

    Every part of the business scored, not just the marketing.

The six areas we score

Each area carries equal weight and is scored out of 100 alongside your overall result.

  • 01

    Revenue & Pricing

    You price deliberately and understand what each property actually earns. That gives you a reliable base to build the rest of the business on.

  • 02

    Direct Bookings

    You already own part of your demand. Direct bookings protect your margin and make the rest of the business far less fragile.

  • 03

    Marketing & Conversion

    You know who you are for, why guests choose your area, and how to present it. That is what makes everything else convert.

  • 04

    Systems & Automation

    The operation runs on process rather than memory. That is what makes growth survivable.

  • 05

    Owner Independence

    The business can function without you in it every day, which is what turns a portfolio into an asset rather than a job.

  • 06

    Guest Experience

    Guests get a consistent, low-friction stay, and recurring issues get fixed properly. That protects reviews and repeat bookings.

How the scorecard works

01

Answer

Seven quick profile questions, then 24 scored questions across six areas.

02

Score

You get an overall score out of 100 plus a score for each of the six areas.

03

Act

You get your biggest constraint, three prioritised actions and the tools that fit.

Software we actually use

Honest breakdowns of the software behind pricing, bookings, automation and operations, including where it works and where it doesn't.

See the tools

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