Edinburgh Visitor Levy

Due to new legislation in Edinburgh properties must now charge a 5% visitor levy. Timeline of implementation below.

For more information visit https://www.parliament.scot/bills-and-laws/bills/visitor-levy-scotland-bill

To set this up head to Accounting Manager > Visitor Levy

Select the article to be used for the charge and add a new rule for the levy.

In line with legislation you must charge 5% for the first 5 days on the stay. Ensure you add in the active from and booking from.

The levy is calculated as part of the night audit process and you will see a separate line transaction for this. The levy should only be applied to the first 5 nights of a stay.

Please note the 5% is deducted from your accommodation amount we would therefore advise increasing rates by 5%.

The visitor levy also works with per stay charge method.

We have created a new Visitor Levy report which can be found in Reports > Finance. You can filter by reservation arrival date and date created. This can be downloaded in both PDF and CSV.

The Levy is displayed to the customer on the booking engine summary page