WhatsApp alternative
The WhatsApp alternative for scheduling cleaners without the group chat.
Staymaker is an alternative to running your turnover cleaning from a WhatsApp group. Instead of messaging your cleaner every checkout and losing the plan in the thread, it reads your Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo calendars over iCal, turns each checkout into an assigned cleaning task, and keeps the chat attached to the job, with a free plan for a single property.
Why switch
A group chat is great for talking. It is not a schedule.
In a WhatsApp group, every turnover is a message you have to remember to send. The schedule lives in the thread and in your head, tasks get buried under photos and chatter, no one checks who is free, nothing marks a clean as done, and next month there is no record of who did what. Staymaker keeps the conversation, but attaches it to a real, booking-driven schedule, so the important part is never a scroll away.
Staymaker and a WhatsApp group, side by side
Keep the chat. Lose the guesswork.
A WhatsApp group works right up until you have more than one cleaner, more than one listing, or a same-day turnover you cannot afford to miss. Then the thread becomes the schedule, and the schedule is only as good as your memory. Staymaker starts from your booking calendars instead: each checkout arrives as a task with the right cleaner assigned and a chat already attached, so nothing depends on someone scrolling back to find it.
See the simple per-property pricing, or read how the cleaning schedule builds itself.
Which one fits you?
Choose WhatsApp if
you run a single property with one cleaner, a quick message is all the coordination you need, and you are happy to keep the schedule in your head. It is free and everyone already has it.
Choose Staymaker if
your group chat has quietly become the schedule, you juggle more than one listing or cleaner, jobs get lost in the thread, and you want each checkout to become an assigned task with its own chat and a clear done or not-done.
Switching
Keep WhatsApp for your friends.
There is nothing to migrate. Paste the same iCal links from Airbnb, Booking.com or Vrbo into Staymaker, add the cleaners you already message, and set who you prefer for each property. Your next checkout is already an assigned task with a chat attached. WhatsApp stays where it belongs, for the quick hello.
Managing Airbnb cleaners without WhatsApp, answered
Move the scheduling out of the thread. Connect your Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo calendars to Staymaker, and every checkout becomes a cleaning task assigned to the right cleaner, with a chat attached to that specific job. You keep talking to your cleaners, but the plan lives in a real schedule instead of a group chat you have to scroll.
Yes. Staymaker has built-in team chat, so you do not lose the conversation. The difference is that each message sits with the turnover it belongs to, instead of scrolling past in one shared group. Questions, photos and confirmations stay tied to the job and the property.
Nothing, until it becomes your scheduling system. WhatsApp is built for messaging, not turnovers, so there is no availability check, no way to mark a clean as done, and no record of who cleaned what. As soon as you have a second cleaner or listing, the group chat starts hiding the very things you need to see.
Staymaker is free for one property. Pro is €5 per property per month, or €4 per property billed annually, for up to twenty. WhatsApp is free, but it is a messenger, not a turnover system, so you still do all the scheduling, assigning and chasing yourself.
Not really. Each cleaner gets a simple view of just their turnovers, with the address, the schedule and a chat, much like opening a message. There is nothing to set up on their side beyond accepting the invite, and they still talk to you the way they do now, in writing.
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Get your turnovers out of the group chat.
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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