Touch Stay review (2026): is it worth $99 a year?
Digital guidebooks with an AI chatbot for rental guests
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Touch Stay report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 13, 2026
Best for digital guidebooks for guests
Touch Stay makes digital guidebooks for rental guests, with an AI chatbot and an upsell widget, from $99 a year for one property. Only the web guidebook is listed, and the trial length is not stated.
Who Touch Stay is for
- Fits if you want a guidebook guests can open on any device
- Works for hosts who want an AI chatbot answering guest questions
Who Touch Stay is not for
- Watch out: the trial length is not stated on the page
- Pricey if you own many properties, as the price is per property and calculated for you
- Skip it if you want an app, as only a web guidebook is listed
- Watch out: the site advertises free guidebook creation, but the pricing page lists no free plan
- Watch out: portfolios above 300 properties get a quote
Why Touch Stay gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- BValue for money$99 a year for 1 property, about $8.25 a month, inside the category's cheaper quarter. Pricing is per property.
- CFree plan and trialA free trial is offered from the pricing page, but its length is not stated and there is no free plan.
- CFeaturesGuidebook, AI guidebook generator, AI chatbot and an upsell widget. It does that one job fully, but it is a smaller job than a property system.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record, and the guidebook content must be written.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with Airbnb, Guesty, Hospitable, Hostaway, Lodgify, Avantio and Escapia.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Touch Stay's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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<a href="https://toolgpa.com/tools/touch-stay#review"><img src="https://toolgpa.com/badge/touch-stay.svg" alt="Touch Stay: 2.4 GPA on ToolGPA" width="196" height="56"></a>Where Touch Stay stands among vacation rental tools
Touch Stay's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 36 of the 53 other vacation rental tools we grade, and level with 10.
It stands best on value for money (B, above 43 of 53) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $8.25 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $19.99 for the category: 7 of the 35 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 2 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 54 vacation rental tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Touch Stay’s own letter is outlined.
- BValue for moneyAbove 43 of 53, level with 9
- CFree plan and trialAbove 24 of 53, level with 25
- CFeaturesAbove 1 of 53, level with 28
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 53, level with 52
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 4 of 53, level with 49
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 36 vacation rental tools. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Touch Stay, or make your own?
Keep it
The plain part of Touch Stay you could make: qR codes and help center. What surrounds it you could not. The 5 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 36 of the 53 other vacation rental tools we grade. It costs $99 a year.
What you could make
- QR codes and help center: an app builder makes these well.
What you could not
- A chatbot builder hooked into the messaging apps.
- It plugs into other products, Airbnb, Guesty and Hospitable among them.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- Hooks into the device itself: widgets.
- Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations.
What this rests on. Touch Stay’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Touch Stay?
Touch Stay lets hosts and property managers build a digital guidebook for each rental, shared with guests by link or QR code. Guidebooks carry check-in details, local tips and an AI chatbot that answers from the host's own content, plus an upsell widget. It connects to a range of PMS and booking platforms.
Worth knowing
- Pricing is per property and the page shows it through a calculator; larger portfolios above 300 properties get a quote.
- The web guidebook is the only platform listed; no dedicated apps are mentioned.
- The site advertises free guidebook creation, but the pricing page lists no separate free plan.
Key features
- Digital guidebook
- A branded guide per property with check-in details and local tips, shared by link or QR code in messages, emails or on site.
- AI guidebook generator
- Paste an Airbnb listing link and the tool builds a first guidebook, filling in check-in info, Wi-Fi and local tips from the listing.
- AI chatbot
- Answers guest questions in their language using only the host's guidebook content; harder requests are passed back to the host.
- Upsell widget
- Offers extra services to guests from inside the guidebook.
- PMS and channel integrations
- Connects to Airbnb and several property management systems so reservations and guest messaging can run from one place.
Touch Stay pricing
As of Nov 13, 2026, Touch Stay is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $99 per year for 1 property, billed annually ($12.50 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- $99 per year for 1 property, billed annually ($12.50 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- Free trial offered from the pricing page; its length is not stated.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Short-term rental guidebook | $99per year for 1 property, billed annually ($12.50 monthly) | Priced by number of properties: $285 a year for 5 and $495 a year for 10; over 300 properties is quoted by form. |
Read from touchstay.com on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Touch Stay before you buy.
Works with
- Airbnb
- Guesty
- Hospitable
- Hostaway
- Lodgify
- Avantio
- Escapia
- Anytime Booking
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Common questions
Does Touch Stay have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Touch Stay is listed for Web.
Does Touch Stay have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Touch Stay is listed for Web.
Is Touch Stay open source?
Touch Stay is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 13, 2026.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026.