How do I manage my Airbnb cleaning schedule without a spreadsheet?

Connect your booking calendars to Staymaker and every checkout becomes an assigned cleaning task that updates automatically. The schedule maintains itself instead of a grid you edit by hand.

Can Staymaker import my existing cleaning spreadsheet?

No import is needed. Staymaker builds the schedule from your iCal booking calendars, so your upcoming checkouts appear automatically once you paste the links and add your cleaners.

What does a spreadsheet still do better than Staymaker?

A spreadsheet is more freely flexible: custom columns, formulas and any data you invent. Staymaker is focused on turnover scheduling and assignment, so some hosts keep a sheet for extra numbers.

Is Staymaker free like Google Sheets?

Staymaker is free for one property; Pro is €5 per property per month (€4 annually) up to twenty. Google Sheets is free but is a blank grid, not a turnover system.

Do I lose control by moving off a spreadsheet?

No. You set the rules once, who cleans what and in what priority, and Staymaker applies them automatically. You can still override any assignment at any time.

Google Sheets alternative

The Google Sheets alternative for hosts running cleanings from a spreadsheet.

Staymaker is an alternative to running your turnover cleaning from a Google Sheet. Instead of typing every checkout into a grid and updating it by hand, it reads your Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo calendars over iCal, turns each checkout into an assigned cleaning task, and keeps the schedule current on its own, with a free plan for a single property.

Last updated 20 July 2026

Why switch

A spreadsheet is a grid you keep up by hand.

A cleaning spreadsheet starts simple, then quietly becomes a second job. Every booking has to be typed in, every date change re-entered, every cleaner colour-coded by hand, and one wrong row can send someone to the wrong flat. A grid cannot read your calendars, check who is free, remind a cleaner, or tell you a turnover is done. Staymaker starts from the same bookings and keeps the schedule current for you, so the grid stops needing you.

Staymaker and a Google Sheet, side by side

StaymakerGoogle Sheets

Turning bookings into cleaningsStaymakerEvery checkout becomes an assigned cleaning taskGoogle SheetsYou type each turnover into the grid by hand

Keeping it up to dateStaymakerSyncs from your calendars, no re-typingGoogle SheetsYou re-edit every time a booking moves or cancels

Cleaner assignmentStaymakerBy availability, your priority order and workloadGoogle SheetsA colour-coded column you fill in yourself

RemindersStaymakerCleaners get task notificationsGoogle SheetsA sheet cannot notify anyone

Marking a turnover doneStaymakerCleaners confirm each clean, you see the statusGoogle SheetsA cell you remember to tick

Your cleaner's viewStaymakerEach cleaner gets their own task list and a chatGoogle SheetsA shared tab, or a screenshot you send

PriceStaymakerFree for 1 property; Pro €5/property/mo (€4 annual), up to 20Google SheetsFree

Best forStaymakerHosts who want the schedule to keep itselfGoogle SheetsA fully custom grid you control by hand

Let the bookings keep the sheet, not you.

The spreadsheet is not the problem, the upkeep is. Every new booking, every date change, every cancellation is another edit you have to make before it reaches your cleaner. Miss one and someone shows up to an occupied flat, or a checkout gets no clean at all. Staymaker reads the same Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo calendars and does the upkeep itself: each checkout arrives as a task with the right cleaner already on it, updated the moment a booking changes.

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

Which one fits you?

Choose Google Sheets if

you want a completely flexible, free grid that you control down to the cell, you run a single property, and you do not mind keeping it up to date by hand. A spreadsheet bends to any workflow you invent.

Choose Staymaker if

you are re-typing bookings into a sheet, juggling more than one listing or cleaner, and you want the schedule to update itself, assign the right cleaner, and tell you when a turnover is done, without another tab to maintain.

Switching

Keep the sheet if you like. Hand over the upkeep.

There is nothing to import. Paste the same iCal links from Airbnb, Booking.com or Vrbo into Staymaker, add your cleaners, and set who you prefer for each property. Your next checkout is already a scheduled, assigned turnover, kept up to date without you. Keep the spreadsheet for the numbers you like tracking, if you want to.

Managing Airbnb cleaning without a spreadsheet, answered

Let your bookings build it. Connect your Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo calendars to Staymaker, and every checkout becomes a cleaning task assigned to the right cleaner, updated automatically when a booking changes. Instead of maintaining a grid, you glance at a schedule that maintains itself, and your cleaners get their own view with reminders.
There is nothing to import, and that is the point. Your schedule is built from your booking calendars, not from an old grid, so you paste in the same iCal links you already have and your upcoming checkouts appear automatically. Any rules that lived in your head, like who cleans which property, you set once when you add your cleaners.
Free-form flexibility. A spreadsheet is a blank grid, so it will happily track anything you invent: custom columns, formulas, budgets, linen counts, all in one place. Staymaker is focused on turnovers, not a blank canvas. Many hosts keep a sheet for the numbers they like and let Staymaker run the actual scheduling and assignment.
Staymaker is free for one property. Pro is €5 per property per month, or €4 per property billed annually, for up to twenty. Google Sheets is free, but it is a blank grid, not a turnover system, so you still do all the scheduling, assigning and updating yourself.
No, you trade manual control for rules you set once. You still decide who cleans which property and in what priority, but Staymaker applies those rules automatically instead of you editing rows. You can override any assignment, and nothing changes about how you pay your cleaners.

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