# Touch Stay review (2026): is it worth $99 a year? > Digital guidebooks with an AI chatbot for rental guests Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** Vacation Rental Software - **Made by:** Touch Stay - **Website:** https://touchstay.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: the trial length is not stated on the page. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## 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). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **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 | $99 per 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 https://touchstay.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Touch Stay before buying. ## 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. ## Good for - Hosts who want one place for Wi-Fi, check-in and house rules - Managers cutting repetitive guest questions - Small portfolios that price by property count ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: B.** $99 a year for 1 property, about $8.25 a month, inside the category's cheaper quarter. Pricing is per property. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free trial is offered from the pricing page, but its length is not stated and there is no free plan. - **Features: C.** Guidebook, 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. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and the guidebook content must be written. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Airbnb, Guesty, Hospitable, Hostaway, Lodgify, Avantio and Escapia. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/vacation-rentals ## Keep it, 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. - You could make: QR codes and help center: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A chatbot builder hooked into the messaging apps. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Airbnb, Guesty and Hospitable among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: Hooks into the device itself: widgets. - You could not: Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Airbnb, Guesty, Hospitable, Hostaway, Lodgify, Avantio, Escapia, Anytime Booking **Tags:** AI features, Chatbots, QR codes, Help center ## Alternatives - [Chekin](https://toolgpa.com/tools/chekin): Online guest check-in, ID checks and legal reporting for rentals. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chekin-vs-touch-stay) - [Enso Connect](https://toolgpa.com/tools/enso-connect): AI guest messaging, check-in and upsells for rentals and hotels. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/enso-connect-vs-touch-stay) - [Hospitable](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hospitable): Guest messaging, channel sync and operations for short-term rentals. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hospitable-vs-touch-stay) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://touchstay.com/pricing - https://api.hubapi.com/cms/v3/hubdb/tables/64711916/rows?portalId=27036878&place_type=1&number_of_props=1&frequency=Annually - https://touchstay.com/our-features - https://touchstay.com/features/ai-chatbot - https://touchstay.com/integrations Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/touch-stay Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).