Lisbon apartment operator halves month-end close time
The customer
A twelve-apartment micro-operator based in Chiado, Lisbon, run by two founders. Total keys 12, ADR EUR 145, occupancy 74%. Their SabeeApp workspace hosted an average of 320 reservations per month across the twelve units, plus ancillary services (airport transfers, welcome baskets, extra cleanings).
The problem
Month-end close routinely took the finance-facing founder a full working day. The process involved downloading three CSV exports from SabeeApp (reservations, folios, payments), reconciling them against the bank statement and the Stripe report, then keying journal entries into Xero one line at a time. Errors were rare but not zero, and always painful when they surfaced two months later.
The intervention
Accounting Sync was activated in February 2026 for a EUR 59/month subscription. Setup took two hours with the accountant on a video call: chart of accounts was mapped once, VAT codes were confirmed, and the first day of automatic journal entries was reviewed manually to confirm the mapping was correct. From day two the flow ran unattended.
The result after 90 days
Month-end close went from an average of 6.5 hours to an average of 45 minutes, entirely spent reviewing the automatic exception list. SAF-T Portugal filings were generated in the format required by Autoridade Tributária with zero rework, versus the previous routine of a two-hour fix-up. The founder reallocated the recovered time to guest experience: personalised arrival notes, apartment maintenance walks and Instagram content.
What the customer said
Founder: "The subscription is 59 euros a month. The recovered founder-time is worth an order of magnitude more than that. We should have done this two years ago."