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Compare guest data capture and CRM
StayFi captures guest data through branded WiFi and markets to it. Haven captures it through the guidebook and your booking site — no router, no install — and puts the CRM, remarketing, and the booking site that turns it into revenue in one platform.
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5.0on Capterra · 6 reviews, September 2026StayFi is guest WiFi and marketing software for vacation rentals. Guests log in to the property WiFi through a branded splash page, StayFi stores their details in a consolidated guest CRM alongside PMS and pre-stay form data, and hosts market to that list with email and SMS automations. Its reviews are excellent — 5.0 from 73 reviews on Capterra as of October 2026 — and reviewers praise easy setup and responsive support.
WiFi capture needs hardware at the property. Based on publicly available information as of October 2026, StayFi requires a StayFi Express unit paired with a compatible WiFi system (Amazon eero, TP-Link Deco or Omada, Aruba, or UniFi) or StayFi’s pre-programmed Aginet hardware, from $134 for a single WiFi 5 device. The device subscription is quoted per active access point; email marketing is free up to 200 subscribers and billed by list size after that; SMS is bought in credits. Without hardware, StayFi’s guest landing pages collect about 10% of guest data, by StayFi’s own estimate. StayFi is not a booking website: its campaigns link guests to the booking site you run elsewhere.
Book With Haven is a direct booking platform with guest data capture built into the stay itself. The guidebook — check-in, Wi-Fi details, house rules, local picks — unlocks with an email, and Haven can post the link into the Airbnb or Vrbo booking thread through a connected PMS, so OTA guests land in your CRM with nothing installed at the property. Site popups and checkout capture more. The same platform runs the CRM with segments, broadcasts, automations, and AI remarketing triggers, and the commission-free booking site those campaigns send guests back to.
A branded booking site with Stripe checkout and 0% booking commission on every plan.
Not a booking site; campaigns and the WiFi HomePage link to the booking website you run elsewhere.
The guidebook (with Wi-Fi details) unlocks with an email, its link can post into the Airbnb or Vrbo booking thread through a connected PMS, and site popups and checkout capture direct guests.
Hardware-free guest landing pages and pre-arrival forms, which StayFi estimates collect about 10% of guest data; full capture needs WiFi hardware.
Software only — no router, access point, or on-site visit.
Needs a StayFi Express unit with a compatible WiFi system or StayFi Aginet hardware (from $134), set up on site; public reviews note waits when the host is not near the property.
One guest database fed by guidebooks, site forms, checkout, and connected PMS stays, with saved segments and opt-in records.
A genuine strength: a consolidated CRM merging WiFi logins, pre-stay forms, and PMS data, with Zero Bounce email verification.
Broadcasts (drafted by AI from a sentence if you like), lifecycle automations with email, text, and WhatsApp steps, and segment targeting.
A genuine strength: unlimited email sends, a drag-and-drop builder with hundreds of templates, automations, and credit-based SMS.
Automatically re-engages the right past guests when there is a nearby event worth traveling for, a gap night, a price drop, or a listing update.
Pre-built automations (WiFi welcome, post-stay, stay anniversary) and Property AutoFill for available properties; event, gap-night, and price-drop triggers are not documented.
Digital guidebooks and a mobile stay guide, included with the platform.
The post-login HomePage links guests to your guidebook and resources.
Create and sell your own experiences and add-ons with 0% Haven commission — quantities with real inventory, time slots and event seats, party-size pricing, deposits, and quote requests — sold pre-booking, at checkout, and in the guest guide. AI-assisted setup and import from any website included.
Upsell storefronts and integrations on the post-login HomePage. Finite inventory, event seats, party-size pricing, and quote requests are not documented.
Free guest screenings and up to $50,000 damage protection on eligible bookings via Truvi — included, not a separate add-on.
No guest-screening or damage-protection product documented.
Haven does not run your property WiFi, so it has no device-count occupancy or outage alerts.
A genuine strength: alerts when connected devices exceed the booking’s guest count, and WiFi outage alerts.
The Haven Assistant, pinned to every page of your dashboard, changes your sites and settings from a plain-language request — pages, copy, design, photos, domains, listings, rates and calendar, upsells, guest CRM and remarketing, and email settings — and you approve each change before it ships; for anything it does not change directly, it walks you there step by step. Or connect ChatGPT or Claude through Haven’s MCP server and work from there.
Changing site and account settings from a plain-language request is not documented.
One grounded assistant on every property site, multi-unit site, guidebook, and custom domain (private stay details only after booking). Every reply graded, gaps grouped into insights with cited chats, one-click Add context fixes it across all sites; hosts train it by chatting with their own sites.
A guest-facing AI chat is not documented.
A visits-to-booking conversion funnel with traffic-source attribution, plus first-party session replay with rage/dead-click detection.
Email and SMS analytics with Google Analytics tracking; StayFi does not host the booking site, so there is no booking funnel or session replay.
A blog on every site, plus Blog Autopilot: on a weekly to monthly schedule Haven runs a real research pass — the queries people search about your area, the pages that rank and what they miss — reads the organiser, park, venue, and tourism-board pages it will cite, writes only from those verified facts and your listing, has an editor check every claim, and drafts the post for your review or publishes it with a Sources list, sitemap entry, and IndexNow ping. Keeping your own website? Embed the same blog with a two-line widget.
No blog or automated site content documented.
Opt-in loyalty points on every direct booking, spendable at any of your listings and applied automatically at checkout; four automatic rewards emails (points ready, reminder, expiring soon, last call) with the bookings they bring back; optional inactivity expiry with guest protections; and one program across teammates’ or agency clients’ listings, funded so their payouts stay whole. Included on every plan.
Email and SMS campaigns to past guests; no points program documented.
A 100-point SEO and AI-search score for every site with a checklist sorted by points gained, live Google Search Console and Bing data, weekly checks that the crawlers behind Google, Bing and Copilot, ChatGPT search, Claude, and Perplexity can read the page, a site llms.txt, IndexNow, image and Vacation Rentals sitemaps, Foursquare listings, and visits from AI assistants tracked as their own channel.
Not a booking website, so there is no booking-site SEO tooling.
Your listings appear in Haven’s plain-language AI stay search and in its open search API and MCP server for ChatGPT, Claude, and other assistants — each result links travelers to book direct with you, with no commission or guest fee.
StayFinder, a book-direct metasearch and Chrome extension, links travelers to hosts’ own sites; an AI-assistant search API is not documented.
Haven vs StayFi
Configure your Haven site as long as you like — you only pay when you’re ready to publish and take bookings. No per-booking commissions.
Comparison based on publicly available information about StayFi as of October 2026. Product features and pricing change frequently — check StayFi’s public website for their latest details. StayFi is a trademark of its respective owner; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by StayFi.