Staymaker
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Google Calendar alternative

The Google Calendar alternative that turns bookings into cleaning tasks.

Staymaker is an alternative to running turnovers from Google Calendar. Instead of creating an event for every checkout and messaging your cleaner, it reads your Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo calendars over iCal, turns each checkout into a cleaning task, and assigns it to your own cleaner by availability, with a free plan for a single property.

Why switch

A calendar shows you bookings. It does not run your turnovers.

You can subscribe your Airbnb, Booking.com or Vrbo iCal link in Google Calendar and see your bookings. But that view is read-only and refreshes on Google's own schedule, not in real time, so a new booking or a cancellation can take hours to appear. It will not create a cleaning task, pick a cleaner, tell them, or track whether the turnover happened. You still re-type every checkout into an event and chase your cleaner by message. Staymaker reads the same calendars and does the turnover part for you.

Staymaker and Google Calendar, side by side

Turning bookings into cleaningsStaymakerEvery checkout becomes a cleaning task automaticallyGoogle CalendarYou create an event for each turnover by hand
Booking calendar syncStaymakerAirbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and 15+ more over iCal, refreshed oftenGoogle CalendarSubscribe an iCal link to view bookings: read-only and slow to refresh
Cleaner assignmentStaymakerBy availability, your priority order and workloadGoogle CalendarInvite a cleaner to the event, no availability logic
Your cleaner's viewStaymakerEach cleaner gets their own task list and a two-way chatGoogle CalendarA shared calendar or event invites, no task view
Marking a turnover doneStaymakerCleaners confirm each clean, you see the statusGoogle CalendarA calendar event has no done state
Same-day turnovers and maintenanceStaymakerTight same-day turns flagged, maintenance tasks in the same appGoogle CalendarJust another event, no turnover awareness
PriceStaymakerFree for 1 property; Pro €5/property/mo (€4 annual), up to 20Google CalendarFree
Best forStaymakerHosts turning bookings into assigned cleaning workGoogle CalendarA personal or shared schedule you keep by hand

Your bookings should build the schedule, not your typing.

In Google Calendar every turnover starts with you: open the app, read the checkout date off the subscribed calendar, create an event, add your cleaner, and hope the feed was up to date. Do that across a few listings and platforms and it becomes a daily data-entry habit. Staymaker starts from the same booking calendars and does the opposite: each checkout arrives as a cleaning task with the right cleaner already assigned, so your job is to glance, not to type.

See the simple per-property pricing, or read how the cleaning schedule builds itself.

Which one fits you?

Choose Google Calendar if

you run a single property with a simple routine, you and your cleaner already share one calendar that works, and you are happy to add each turnover by hand. It is free and you already have it.

Choose Staymaker if

you are re-typing every checkout into an event, juggling more than one listing or booking platform, and you want each checkout to become an assigned cleaning task, with a cleaner who has their own view and confirms the job is done.

Switching

Keep your calendar. Hand off the turnovers.

There is nothing to migrate. Paste the same iCal links you already subscribe to in Google Calendar into Staymaker, add the cleaners you work with, and set who you prefer for each property. Your next checkout is already a scheduled, assigned turnover. Keep Google Calendar for everything else in your day.

Managing Airbnb cleaning with Google Calendar, answered

  • You can subscribe your Airbnb, Booking.com or Vrbo iCal link in Google Calendar and see your bookings, but that is where it stops. The subscribed calendar is read-only: it will not create a cleaning task, assign a cleaner, or track whether the clean happened. You do all of that by hand. Staymaker reads the same calendars and turns each checkout into an assigned turnover automatically.

  • Google refreshes subscribed iCal calendars on its own schedule rather than in real time, and there is no manual refresh button, so a new booking or a cancellation can take hours to show up. For cleaning that lag is risky: you can miss a same-day turnover, or send a cleaner to a booking that was already cancelled. Staymaker refreshes your booking feeds far more often and turns each checkout into a task.

  • No. You can invite a cleaner to a calendar event, but there is no availability check, no priority order, no workload balancing, and no confirmation that the clean was done. Staymaker assigns each turnover to the right cleaner by availability and your priority for that property, and the cleaner marks it complete.

  • Staymaker is free for one property. Pro is €5 per property per month, or €4 per property billed annually, for up to twenty properties. Google Calendar is free, but it is a calendar, not a turnover system, so you supply all the scheduling, assigning and chasing yourself.

  • No. Keep Google Calendar for your personal and business schedule. Staymaker only takes over the turnover side: booking-driven cleaning tasks, cleaner assignment, team chat and completion tracking. Many hosts keep both, one for their day and one for their cleanings.

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Let your bookings do the scheduling.

Staymaker is opening to hosts a few at a time. Leave your email and you'll get a note the moment your spot is ready.

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