In Bnbtally, with the Sync Manager, you have full control over what takes place in your books. Here, we’ll show you how to automate, sync, recreate and rollback anything we sync into your books.

Related Guide: Airbnb Accounting & Bookkeeping: A Comprehensive Guide

To get to the Sync Manager, navigate to the Sync Manager menu item on the left in Bnbtally and select a connection to focus on.

What you see in the dashboard is a list of sync activity related to this connection. Each item you see in this list is called a Sync Object, it represents an Airbnb payout that has been processed with your listing setting rules and prepared for syncing into Xero. Here you’ll see what’s been synced, what’s being processed and can see if there’s any sync objects that need your attention.

For each item, you can select the view link and be able to drill down and get more information about it.

From here, you’ll be able to see which listing it came from with a link to your listing rules as well as the reservation code and a link to the itinerary and so on. You’ll also be able to see a log report of what took place in processing the payout related to the Sync Object and will have a link to view those objects in Xero.

After you’ve synced a few items to Xero, click to view one of the Sync Objects in your Sync Manager. Scroll down to the Sync Object Log, look for your Invoice and select the link "View in Xero"

Bnbtally will take you directly to the invoice created in Xero...

You’ll notice the Accommodation Fare has been allocated along with the Cleaning Fee and Airbnb Service Fee. The Airbnb Service Fee is a negative number, and represents the fee Airbnb charges to hosts. All of these items add up perfectly to the payout amount. However, if you’ve set a Custom Tax, this will likely be created in a second invoice (created by another Sync Object).

NOTE: All Sync Objects are created the moment the Airbnb payout is posted. Also, in this example, we’ve generated payments for each invoice as well. This is because payments have been set automatic in our Bnbtally listing settings, using the payment clearing account. For more information about the payment clearing account, check the following link...

Going back to the Sync Manager, if you prefer to manually sync each item by hand, you can simply select the checkbox of each sync object listed and process your sync objects manually by selecting the "Sync selected" option and clicking the "Apply" button.

When you are comfortable with the rules that you have set and have checked to make sure all is well in your books, you can enable Auto-Sync and we can sync everything into your books automatically, which is usually what we recommend.

Just select the toggle button to enable/disable...

If there is anything synced that you would like to rollback and remove from your books, you can do so by going back to the Sync Manager and selecting any object that has already been synced. Under the "Select Action..." selector, you can select the “Rollback/Cancel selected” option and click the "Apply" button.

With this you have full control over anything we sync into your books, just in case you need to change your settings or you want to remove anything we’ve synced into your books, you can do so by using this Rollback/Cancel feature.

NOTE: If you have disabled Automatic Payments using the Payment Clearing Account and you have manually reconciled your Invoices, Bnbtally will not be able to rollback the Invoice until you unreconile it in Xero.

After you've rolled back Sync Objects, you can resync them with your latest listing rules. To do this, you can recreate your Sync Objects by selecting the option “Sync selected” and clicking the "Apply" button. This will process the Sync Objects with your most up-to-date listing settings.

Finally, to help you with pinpointing any specific set of payouts, we’ve provided an advanced filter at the top of the Sync Manager to help you search any payout by status, payout account, listing, amount, date range and reservation number.

Bnbtally is a monthly ongoing service and the ongoing sync objects processed for your books are managed by the Sync Manager. But if you’d like to bulk import historic reservation data, you would use the Historic Import feature, which pulls months, even years worth of reservation data into your Sync Manager. If you have Historical data to import, be sure to check out our guide about our Historical Import feature.