Tracking Your Earnings and Tax Information

Once your payouts are set up, the payouts dashboard in your vendor account is where you track what Finding Retreats owes you and what's already been paid. It's built around individual bookings rather than a single running balance, so you can see exactly which booking a payout relates to, rather than a total that's hard to trace back to any one event.

What the payouts dashboard shows

At the top, four summary figures give you the overview: pending payouts and how many payments make them up, payouts scheduled in the next 30 days, completed payouts, and total earned across both. Below that, you can filter the list to all, pending, or completed payouts, which is useful if you're specifically chasing down something that hasn't landed yet.

Each booking in the list shows:

• The listing name and type, and the event date
• The total booking price, and if a deposit structure applies, how much was received as a deposit and how much balance is still pending
• The card processing fee and the Finding Retreats platform fee taken out of that booking
• Your payout amount after those fees are deducted
• The payout status (pending, processing, completed, or failed), and either the scheduled payout date, the number of days remaining, or the date it was actually paid

This gives you a paper trail for every booking rather than a single lump total, which is useful when you want to reconcile a specific payment against your own records, or explain a fee to a guest who's asking about their charge.

Adding tax information

Alongside payout setup, Finding Retreats supports adding tax information for your account, kept separate from your payout method. This includes taxpayer information, such as your name, address, and a tax ID appropriate to your country, and, where relevant, VAT registration details. Hosts based in the US typically provide a W9, which Finding Retreats uses for 1099-K reporting at year end. Where you're based determines which of these fields actually apply to you, so a host outside the US will see a different set of requirements than a US-based individual or business.

It's worth adding this information early rather than waiting until year-end paperwork is due. Nothing about your payouts depends on it in the short term, but tax documents can't be issued to you correctly until your details are on file, and chasing this down after the fact is more work than filling it in once, up front.

Year-end statements

At year-end, tax documents for the previous calendar year become available to download from your account once they're issued. Until then, the dashboard shows them as pending rather than available, which is worth checking if you're pulling together records for an accountant or preparing your own return.

Related help

For more detail on reviewing your payout history and adding tax details, see "Track earnings and payouts", "Year-end statements", and "Add tax information" in the help centre.