Why use Stayem?
The morning calendar round
Keeping your booking calendar up to date on every agent website, as well as your own, can take half an hour per day — sometimes more. With Stayem, one master calendar holds the truth: connect Airbnb, Booking.com, VRBO and the rest over the open iCal standard, and refresh them all with one click. A booking made anywhere blocks those dates everywhere.
The payments spreadsheet
Deposit received? Balance due when? Who still owes the breakage deposit? Stayem generates each booking's payment schedule from your own conditions — splits, deposit percentage, due dates — and tracks every amount received, in the currency it arrives in. The spreadsheet retires; nothing slips through.
The WhatsApp relay
Wifi codes to this guest, arrival times to the cleaner, gate code to the plumber — you are the messenger in the middle. With Stayem, guests scan a QR code and get their check-in instructions, wifi and house rules in their phone browser; your cleaners and managers get a live turnover schedule. Nobody installs anything, and you decide exactly what each person sees.
The commission bleed
Listing on Airbnb, Booking.com and the others is fine, but the commission eats your margin. Stayem embeds a live availability calendar into your own website with a copy-paste snippet, so visitors can see free dates and book with you directly.
The lock-in worry
Stayem speaks the widely-adopted iCal (.ics) open standard. Let Stayem be your master calendar and have all the others synchronise as second-level calendars. No vendor lock-in — your data is yours, exportable to any iCal-compatible client.
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