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Compare digital guidebook software
Touch Stay is excellent standalone guidebook software. Haven includes digital guidebooks automatically with your direct booking site — no separate subscription, and every guest email flows into a built-in CRM.
Touch Stay is the best-known dedicated digital guidebook product for vacation rentals: multimedia guides delivered as a web app, with local recommendations powered by Google Places, offline access, PDF export, and 30+ PMS integrations. It has expanded into scheduled email and (US-only) SMS messaging, and it is genuinely good at what it does.
It is also a separate, per-property subscription — roughly $99–$118 per year per property based on publicly available information as of July 2026 — for one feature. Touch Stay has no booking website, no checkout, and while it captures guest contact details, it has no CRM or remarketing engine to act on them: the data must be exported into other tools.
Book With Haven takes a different approach: digital guidebooks and a mobile guest stay guide are included automatically with your direct booking platform. Your guidebook captures the booker’s email and their co-guests’, feeds Haven’s built-in guest CRM, and powers smart remarketing that fills open dates with returning-guest offers. Check-in details, Wi-Fi, house rules, local picks, printable versions, and even smart-lock codes all live in the same platform as your website, checkout, screening, and taxes — one system, one bill.
Guidebooks and a mobile stay guide: check-in, Wi-Fi, house rules, and curated local picks.
The category specialist: multimedia guides, Google Places recommendations, offline access.
Guidebooks come automatically with your direct booking site — no separate software or bill.
A standalone per-property subscription (roughly $99–$118/year per property, as of July 2026).
Branded booking site with Stripe checkout built in — the guidebook links guests back to your site to rebook.
No booking site or checkout; upsell payments run through third-party embeds.
Captures the booker’s and co-guests’ emails into a built-in CRM with smart remarketing.
Gathers guest contact details, but has no CRM or remarketing engine — data must be exported.
Screenings free; up to $50,000 damage protection on eligible bookings via Truvi.
Not offered — a guidebook and messaging product only.
Guest messaging built into the guest stay hub.
Scheduled email worldwide and two-way SMS (SMS US-only).
Localized booking pages in up to 5 languages with per-language URLs and hreflang.
Guides in ~16 languages (host-supplied translations) or via a Google Translate widget.
Printable guidebooks, house rules, QR cards — plus orderable branded business cards.
PDF export of guides.
Per-stay door codes issued and revoked automatically via Seam (August, Schlage, Yale, igloohome).
No smart-lock or digital check-in control documented.
Haven vs Touch Stay
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 Touch Stay as of July 2026. Product features and pricing change frequently — see Touch Stay’s website for their latest details. Touch Stay is a trademark of its respective owner; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by Touch Stay.