Airbnb Listing Launch Plan Spreadsheet – 6-Week Gantt Timeline, Task Owners, Due Dates, Auto Progress Bar, Excel & Sheets, No Canva

New Listing Launch Plan is an Excel and Google Sheets workbook that turns opening a new vacation rental into a 6-week project plan. It comes with 60 ready-made tasks in 7 phases (permits, furnishing and safety, systems and supplies, photos and listing copy, pricing and settings, test stay and fixes, go-live and the first 30 days), an automatic Gantt chart, task owners, due dates, statuses and a progress bar that fills itself. No Canva needed. This is a plain spreadsheet with no macros and no add-ons. Yellow cells are for typing and gray cells hold the formulas. It works in Excel, Google Sheets and Numbers. This is a template only, not legal, tax or financial advice. Have a local professional review it before use. Permit, tax and insurance rules differ by place, so check every step with your city and a local professional. What is inside (8 sheets)

Settings - project name, go-live date, optional plan start, due-soon window, a team list of up to 6 people that feeds the Owner dropdown, the status list and the 7 phase names with their colors.

Plan - the task table: 60 sample tasks with phase, task, owner dropdown, starting day, number of days, calculated start and due dates, status dropdown, % done dropdown, days left, an Overdue, Due soon, Blocked or Done flag and notes. Six empty rows are ready for your own tasks.

Gantt - one row per task and one column per day for 6 weeks, with week bands and the date on every column. Bars draw themselves in the phase color, today is highlighted and weekends are shaded. It prints on landscape paper.

Progress - a text progress bar, overall % done, days to go-live, overdue and blocked counts, % done against planned % for each phase with an On track, Watch or Behind status, a chart and the next 5 open tasks.

Budget - 14 launch budget lines (permits, insurance, furniture, linens, kitchen, tech and smart lock, safety, photography, supplies, signage, software, cleaning setup, contingency, other) with planned, actual, variance and % spent, totals and a chart.

Contacts - 15 rows for vendors, officials and team members with role, name, company, phone, email and notes.

Dashboard - days to go-live, overall % done, tasks done, overdue tasks, budget spent, the phase furthest behind, the next 3 open tasks, phase progress and two charts.

Read Me - how to use the workbook, what the colors mean and how to add or remove tasks.

A complete sample launch is included (a cottage about three weeks into its plan), so every flag, bar and chart shows real numbers from the first click. Replace the sample tasks, names and amounts with your own. It is a time-based project plan, not a room-by-room inventory checklist. Who it is for New hosts, co-hosts and property managers who want to see what has to happen, who owns it and when it is due before the first guest arrives. Use one copy per property. Files you receive

New-Listing-Launch-Plan.xlsx - editable workbook New-Listing-Launch-Plan.pdf - printable overview of every sheet START-HERE-How-to-Edit.pdf - editing guide for Excel, Google Sheets and Numbers

How it works

Download the ZIP after checkout. Open the .xlsx in Excel, or upload it to Google Drive and open it with Google Sheets. Type your go-live date and team on Settings. Pick an owner, a starting day, a number of days and a status for each task on Plan, then watch the Gantt, Progress and Dashboard update.

FAQ

Do I need Canva? No, this is an Excel file. Can I change the tasks? Yes. Every task name, owner, day and duration is editable, and there are six empty rows for your own tasks. How does the Gantt know where to draw the bars? It reads the start and due dates from the Plan sheet. Change a starting day or the number of days and the bar moves. What if my go-live date changes? Type the new date on Settings. The plan start, every date, the Gantt columns and the flags move with it. Does it work in Google Sheets? Yes. Upload the file and open it with Google Sheets. The formulas avoid add-in and dynamic-array functions. License: personal and single-business use. Please do not resell or redistribute the files. Airbnb, VRBO and Booking.com are trademarks of their respective owners; this product is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.