Rental hosts
One guide per place, a dated link per booking. Paste the link into your booking message; the code shows up on arrival day and disappears after.
For hosts, families & house-sitters
The front desk for your guests.
Write the answers once: the door, the Wi-Fi, the shower, trash day, your favourite bakery. Guests open one link on their phone and find everything without texting you. With a dated stay link (Concierge Pass), the door code appears only on the days of the stay.
Free for one guideConcierge Pass $1.95/month or $19.50/yearFree during preview
One guide, three moments
Arrive. Stay. Leave.
Most guest questions come at the same three moments. The guide is built around them, so the answer is where a tired traveller looks for it.
I
Arrive
Before the bags are down.
- Address with an "open in maps" link
- Parking and how the lock works
- Door code, shown on stay days only with a stay link
- Wi-Fi name and password, one tap to copy
II
Stay
Everything you would otherwise explain.
- How-to cards: thermostat, TV, coffee, shower
- House rules and quiet hours
- Your own local picks
- Where the first-aid kit and shut-offs are
- Care list for pets and plants
III
Leave
A tidy goodbye.
- Check-out time
- Your check-out checklist
- A stay link closes itself after the last day
Stay links
The code appears on the first day.
Give each guest a dated stay link. Before they arrive they can read the whole guide, but the door code and Wi-Fi password stay hidden. On the first day they appear. After the last day the link shows only "this stay has ended".
Change the lock code between guests and the old one was never on the page outside the stay. End any link at any time with one button.
The Rivera familyStay link
- Oct 12 HiddenGuide readable; code shows "appears on Saturday, October 17"
- Oct 17 – 204827Door code and Wi-Fi password on screen
- Oct 21 Closed"This stay has ended." Nothing else shown
Who it is for
Anyone who hands over a key.
No listing, no booking, no app for your guests to install: a page that answers questions.
Family & friends staying
The guest room, the tricky shower, where the coffee lives. Your visitors stop hunting and you stop explaining.
House- & pet-sitters
A care list with times, the alarm panel, trash day, the vet. Everything the sitter needs while you are away, in one link.
Welcome toThe Porch HouseGuest guide
Scan for your guide
The Porch House
On paper too
A welcome binder and a card for the table.
Print the whole guide as a tidy binder for the kitchen drawer. With the Concierge Pass, print a table card whose QR code opens the guide, and a Wi-Fi card phones can join by scanning.
The printed binder never includes the door code.
Prices
Free for one guide. $1.95 a month for more.
Payments are not switched on yet: every Host Desk gets the Concierge Pass free during the preview, and nothing is charged.
Free
For one place.
$0
No card, no account.
- 1 guide with every section
- Up to 6 how-to cards and 12 local picks
- 1 always-on guest link
- Printable welcome binder
Keep it as long as you like. Unused Desks are deleted after 400 days.
Free during preview
Concierge Pass
$1.95 a month
or $19.50 a year (two months free)
- Up to 10 guides, one per place
- Dated stay links: codes show only during the stay, up to 20 per guide
- QR table card and Wi-Fi join card
- 40 how-to cards and 40 picks per guide
- Duplicate a guide; download it as a file
Every Host Desk has these features free while payments are off. No button here takes money.
Stay Pass · $1.00
Everything in the Concierge Pass for 14 days, for one visit. Never renews.
Free during previewEverything in the Concierge Pass for 14 days, for one visit. Never renews.
What it never does
A guide, and nothing else.
- No staff. No person answers your guests; they contact you.
- No bookings or payments between you and your guests.
- No accounts or email. Your Desk opens with a private link.
- No guest data. Guests type nothing; we count views, not people.
- No ads in your guide or Desk, no AI writing, no selling or sharing what you write.
- No codes outside the stay on a dated stay link.
Ten minutes tonight