Enterprise DNA

Instead of Guesty

Paying Guesty for every home you manage? Own your letting system.

We build your version around how you run your homes, owners and cleaners. We bring your Guesty reservations across, set the rules for each home and run it for you.

Guesty lists Lite from $9 per listing a month for hosts with one to three listings. Property managers are moved to Pro, which is quoted by the number of listings and carries the owner portal and owner statements.

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The Guesty bill

What a holiday letting business pays for, home by home

Guesty prices by the listing. Every home you sign up adds to the bill, whether it books ten nights a year or two hundred.

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A charge for every home

Lite starts at $9 per listing a month and stops at three listings. Past that, Pro is priced by how many homes you manage.

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A price you cannot see

Guesty publishes no Pro price. You learn it from a sales call, and it moves as your portfolio grows.

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Owner statements on the higher plan

The owner portal with owner statements is part of Pro. The thing owners judge you on sits behind the quote.

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Tools sold separately

Pricing, damage protection, smart lock control and payments are optional add-ons on top of the plan.

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A share of some reservations

In some markets the Lite pay-as-you-go option adds 1% per reservation to the listing fee.

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Your history in their reports

Reservations come out as a report emailed to you, and only for users whose role allows it. Lite cannot export listings at all.

Your own letting system

Homes, cleans, owners and the rules in one place

TURNOVERS

Every departure has a clean and a cleaner

Departures, the next arrival in the same home and who is cleaning, same-day turnovers first.

  • check A same-day turnover with no clean booked is the first thing you see
  • check Each cleaner gets their run sheet with the time the next guests arrive
  • check A clean done with damage stays on the list until it is dealt with
  • check Which cleaner comes before the lowest cleanliness scores, from the next guest's review

OWNERS

Statements out by the 10th

Each owner's share is worked out stay by stay, after channel commission and your fee.

  • check Every owner's statement for the month, with stays, commission, fee and expenses
  • check Repairs and supplies charged to the owner land on the next statement
  • check Late statements and unpaid payouts flagged until they are done
  • check A monthly owner email drafted with the payout, what is booked and repairs awaiting a yes

RULES

Night caps and registrations watched for you

Each home carries the rules it lives under, and the count includes what is already booked.

  • check NSW 180 nights and Byron 60 nights, leaving out bookings of 21 nights or more
  • check Perth 90 nights before approval, from the registration date
  • check Registration numbers missing or expiring in the next 30 days
  • check The Victorian short stay levy on direct bookings, totalled by quarter

MONEY

What each home earns you and the owner

Twelve months per home and per channel, in one answer.

  • check Your margin per home after paying the cleaners
  • check What the owner keeps per night on each channel after commission
  • check The next twelve weeks on the books, week by week
  • check Repeat guests you paid the most commission on, to invite back direct

Make it yours

Design your own Guesty replacement

Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Guesty. Try it here, and we build the real one.

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3. Make it fit

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Your business · your Guesty replacement Your version
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Answered from your own database

Build my version

We build it from the open-source base, bring your Guesty data across and run it for you.

What it looks like

Ask it like you would ask a colleague

Real answers from the demo data that ships with Short-Stay Management for Claude Code. It runs in Claude Code inside the Claude app, so it feels like any chat you already use.

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Short-Stay Management for Claude Code

Connected to your own database

Which departures in the next three days still need a clean or a cleaner?

2026-11-11

Home
Manly Harbour Apartment
Departing
CR-90011
Turnaround
3 day gap
Next arrival
2026-11-14
Cleaner
Sparkle Turnovers
Clean
scheduled

2026-11-13

Home
Bondi Terrace
Departing
CR-90003
Turnaround
same day
Next arrival
2026-11-13
Cleaner
NOT BOOKED

2026-11-14

Home
Byron Hinterland Cabin
Departing
CR-90022
Turnaround
same day
Next arrival
2026-11-14
Cleaner
no cleaner
Clean
scheduled

Ask it anything

Ten questions to ask your letting system

Each one is answered today from the free version and the demo business.

chat_bubble Which same-day turnovers in the next three days have no cleaner?
chat_bubble How many nights does each capped home have left this year, counting what is already booked?
chat_bubble Which cleaner's turnovers come before the lowest cleanliness scores?
chat_bubble Which homes earn us least after we pay the cleaners?
chat_bubble Which channel leaves the owner the most per night after commission?
chat_bubble Which owner statements are late, and which payouts have not gone?
chat_bubble Which Victorian direct bookings have no levy recorded?
chat_bubble Which repeat guests have we paid the most commission on?
chat_bubble Which repairs are waiting on an owner's yes, and for how long?
chat_bubble Which registrations expire in the next 30 days?

Switching

How to switch from Guesty

A move usually involves exporting your reservations and, if you use Pro, your listings, then testing the import and checking the records before you stop using Guesty.

  1. 1

    Export your Guesty records

    Get the reservations report from Guesty as a CSV. If you are on Pro, get the listings report too. Guesty emails these reports as spreadsheets, and its export path may depend on your account. Check with Guesty if you are unsure what your account can export. Messages, pricing rules and automations do not come across, so plan to keep those where they are.

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    Test, then load the records

    Start with a test run of the exported reports. It makes no changes, so you can check the result before anything is loaded. Once you are ready, apply the import to bring across reservations, homes, guests, channels and payments. If you have Enterprise DNA install and run the system, they handle this import as part of the move.

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    Review the import results

    Read the test results and check anything the import flags before loading the records. Confirm that the reservations and homes you expect are represented, and that the key details you use for daily operations are present. The import does not bring over messages, pricing rules or automations, so make a note of how you will continue handling those outside the new records.

  4. 4

    Run both side by side

    Keep Guesty running for a short period while you use the new system for day-to-day checks. Compare the reservations and home details you rely on, and make sure your team can follow its regular work in the new setup. The new system does not connect to Airbnb, Booking.com or Vrbo by itself, so keep a channel manager for rates and availability, or have Enterprise DNA connect it.

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    Switch off Guesty

    Once you have checked the imported records and are comfortable with the new process, stop using Guesty. Keep your channel manager in place for rates and availability if you rely on one. Your Guesty messages, pricing rules and automations will not be in the new system, so keep using the relevant booking sites or inbox for messages and decide how to handle those rules and automations.

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Where the real effort goes

The main work is usually mapping your own fields and operating rules, then deciding how much history you want to bring across. The import covers reservations and listings, but messages, pricing rules and automations stay behind. If you have Enterprise DNA install and run the system, they handle the migration work, including fitting the records and rules to your business.

Not ready for a call?

Get your Guesty switch plan by email

We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off Guesty, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.

One email with your plan. No spam, and you can unsubscribe any time.

Three ways to own it

Do it yourself, have it customised, or have it run for you

Open source

Do it yourself

Free, open source

  1. 1 Clone the repo, run npm install and npm run demo
  2. 2 Open it in Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Cursor and type /attention
  3. 3 Export your Guesty reservations report as CSV and run the import as a test first
  4. 4 Set each home's rules and registration, then run /compliance
Get it on GitHub

Built around your business

We customise it

One setup fee, then a retainer for ongoing work

  • check Your fee rules, owner statement layout and cleaning rates
  • check Your Guesty reservations, homes and owners brought across and checked
  • check Your channel manager and accounting system connected, so bookings and payouts flow in
  • check An owner screen or a cleaner app, if your team wants one
Get your version built

Omni by Enterprise DNA

We run it for you

One setup fee, then a retainer

  • check Installed with your access, backups and owner records agreed
  • check Turnovers, night caps and late statements prepared every morning
  • check Month end prepared each month for you to check and issue
  • check Run through Omni by Enterprise DNA beside the rest of your business
Book a 30-minute review

Questions

Instead of Guesty, answered

What does Guesty cost? expand_more

Its pricing page lists Guesty Lite from $9 per listing a month, for hosts with one to three listings. Property managers with more homes go on Guesty Pro, which is quoted by the number of listings, with pricing, damage protection, smart lock and payment tools as optional add-ons. The free version has no licence fee. Enterprise DNA agrees one setup fee, then a retainer, to build and run your version.

Does it connect to Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo? expand_more

Not in the free version. Guesty pushes your rates and calendars to the booking sites, and that connection is the part most businesses keep in a channel manager. The free version takes the reservations in from an export. When Enterprise DNA builds your version, we connect your channel manager so new bookings, changes and cancellations arrive on their own.

Can we bring our Guesty history across? expand_more

Yes. Guesty emails your reservations report as a spreadsheet, and the listings report too if you are on Pro. A test run comes first and changes nothing, and bringing the same file in again updates the records instead of doubling them. Guest messages, pricing rules and automations do not come across.

Are the night caps and the levy right for our homes? expand_more

Each home is set to the rules it lives under: the NSW 180 nights, Byron 60 nights, Perth 90 nights, Victoria's levy or Queenstown Lakes registration. Each rule is written down with its government source. It is a working check for your business, not legal advice, and we set your exact rules when we build your version.

What about guest messages and the owner portal? expand_more

Guest messages stay in the booking sites or your inbox. Owners get their statement and a monthly update drafted for you to send. If your owners expect to sign in and see their bookings, Enterprise DNA builds that screen on top of your own records.

Bring your Guesty invoice and last month's owner statements to Sam

Spend 30 minutes with Sam. Bring what Guesty charged last month, how many homes you manage and one owner statement. We will show your turnovers, caps and statements in the demo, and what your own version needs.

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Short-Stay Management for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.

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