Booking a licensed stay

Every step, and what proves it happened

• 1. UAQ DED hotel licence and classification

  Held by the operator, not by the unit and not by us. We have not confirmed which licence a hotel must hold in Umm Al Quwain — ask UAQ DED which one applies and record its number against the listing.

  UAQ DEDThe landlordNot confirmed

• 2. Record the grade you were licensed at

  The Tourism Dirham is charged per occupied unit per night at a rate set by your grade. Until it is recorded here we cannot show a guest what the stay totals - the listing shows a nightly rate and says the rest is settled at the property, which loses you the booking to whoever could show a total.

  The landlordConfirmed

• 3. Check whether you need a TRN

  You charge the 5% and you issue the tax invoice for the stay, not us - so the registration is yours, not ours. We have not confirmed where the threshold sits or how short-stay income counts toward it, so ask the Federal Tax Authority before you assume you are under it. PropDirect charges VAT on its subscription only, never on your room.

  The landlordNot confirmed

• 4. Set up how you get paid

  Guests pay the operator directly through Stripe. PropDirect never holds the money, and the operator issues the tax invoice for the stay.

  The landlordConfirmed

• 5. Price the nights, weeks and months

  Hotel apartments are routinely booked by the month. A nightly rate alone prices a month at thirty times a night and simply does not compete for that enquiry.

  The landlordConfirmed

• 6. Listing live

  Room types, rates and the operator's licence shown on the listing.

  Your agentConfirmed

• 7. Booking confirmed

  The guest pays for the stay when they book, into your own Stripe account, and that payment confirms it. Dates, room type and rate. Tourism Dirham applies per occupied room per night, at the rate set by the property's classification.

  The tenantConfirmed

• 8. Guest registration with ICA

  Passport details within 24 hours of check-in — the same federal obligation a holiday home carries, discharged by the hotel's own front desk.

  ICAThe landlordConfirmed

• 9. Return the Tourism Dirham you collected

  Collected per occupied unit per night from the guest, and remitted monthly - by the 15th, for the month before. Dubai issues payment orders on the 11th. We show what is outstanding and keep your reference; the return itself is filed with the authority by you.

  The landlordConfirmed

• 10. Review the stay

  Only the guest who stayed can write one, once, and only after checkout. That is what makes the rating on a listing worth reading.

  The tenantConfirmed

• 11. Checkout and turnaround

  The guest checks out, housekeeping turns the room and it goes back into inventory for the next arrival. A room that cannot take one is marked out of service with the reason and the date it returns, so it stops being sold rather than being quietly missing.

  The landlordConfirmed