AI guest messaging · Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com

Every guest message answered in seconds — even at midnight

Your Haven AI answers the guests who booked on Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com, right in their booking thread, through the PMS you already use. It replies from your listing, your guidebook and what you have taught it, in the guest’s own language — and hands you anything that is yours to decide.

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What you get

  • Replies inside the Airbnb, Vrbo or Booking.com conversation your guest already reads, sent through your PMS
  • Answers in about a minute, day or night, in the language the guest wrote in
  • Property facts come only from your listing, your guidebook and your AI knowledge — and questions about the area, like the weather or the drive from the airport, are looked up live, never guessed
  • Refunds, date changes, complaints and exceptions always come to you, with a suggested reply ready
  • Draft for approval or send automatically, chosen per PMS and per listing
  • Every exchange graded in Chats, so you see exactly where it needed you and teach it once

Guests expect an answer now. Your inbox has other plans.

Response time decides bookings and reviews. A traveler comparing three listings books the one that answers first, and a guest standing at the door does not care that it is two in the morning where you are. Most of what they ask is already written down somewhere — in the listing, the guidebook, the house manual — yet someone still has to find it and type it into the right thread. The usual automations do not help: scheduled templates fire at a set time whatever the guest actually asked, and generic AI replies invent amenities, quote the wrong check-in time, or slip a phone number into an Airbnb inquiry and put the listing at risk.

Slow replies cost bookings

The inquiry that waits until morning is often the booking that went to the listing down the road.

Templates answer the wrong question

A scheduled message cannot tell the guest whether the crib is in the closet or the hot tub is heated tonight.

Generic AI gets hosts in trouble

Made-up answers, a promised refund nobody approved, contact details in a pre-booking thread: each one a review or a platform warning waiting to happen.

How AI guest messaging works

1

Connect the PMS you already use

Hospitable, Guesty, OwnerRez, Lodgify, Hostfully, Hostaway, Hostex, Uplisting, Host Tools, Smoobu, Beds24 or Track, and iGMS once iGMS has enabled messaging for Haven. Haven receives each guest message from your PMS as it arrives (on a scheduled check for Track, and hourly for Uplisting until you save its API key), alongside the reservation it belongs to.

2

Choose how much it does on its own

In Communication → Message automations, set each PMS to Draft for approval or Send automatically, and leave out any listing you want to answer yourself. Everything starts off.

3

It answers from what you already wrote

The same assistant that runs your Haven sites reads the listing, its guidebook and your AI knowledge. Questions about the area — the weather, drive times, what is open on a Sunday — it looks up live, knowing where your property is. A burst of three messages gets one reply that covers all three.

4

Every reply is checked before it goes out

It is graded against the guest’s question, and screened for contact details before a booking and for door codes or Wi‑Fi before the guest’s arrival window opens. Anything uncertain is held as a draft.

5

The rest comes to you

Refunds, changes, complaints and safety questions are handed to you with what the guest needs and a suggested reply, by email and text — and the assistant keeps answering the guest’s other questions while that one waits for you. Only pausing the thread yourself takes it out of the conversation.

Follow one message through

A guest writes → it reads → it replies → you decide

Watch a late-night Airbnb question reach Haven through the PMS, get answered from the host’s own listing and guidebook in the guest’s language, and see what happens when the next message asks for a refund.

Step 1 · A guest writes

The message reaches Haven the moment it lands

A guest who booked on Airbnb, Vrbo or Booking.com writes in their booking thread. Your PMS passes it to Haven, even at 11:47 on a Saturday night.

Airbnb 11:47 pm
Is the hot tub heated right now? We land late tomorrow.

Maya · 3 guests

HospitableGuestyHostfullyLodgify
Haven inbox
Airbnb via Guesty
AI is answering
AirbnbVrboBooking.com
No one on your team had to be awake

Key capabilities

Built for

Hosts who sleep

The 11 pm “is the hot tub on?” and the 6 am “where do we park?” are answered before you wake, and only the questions that need you are waiting.

Property managers with a portfolio

One assistant for every listing, each answered from its own details, with per-listing control over where it replies.

Hosts with international guests

Replies in the guest’s language without a translation step or a second template library.

Anyone wary of AI replying to guests

Start in Draft for approval and read every reply before it goes. Move to Send automatically listing by listing, once you trust it.

Because it’s one platform

The reason it answers well is that it is not a separate messaging bot — it is the same assistant, knowledge base and grading loop that runs your Haven sites, pointed at your OTA threads.

Teach it once, every channel knows

Context you add fixing a site-chat gap is the context it uses in the next Airbnb thread. One knowledge base covers your sites, guest portals and OTA messages.

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It respects the guest portal’s rules

Door codes and Wi‑Fi follow the same reveal window your guest portal enforces — the AI cannot leak what the stay has not unlocked yet.

See the guest portal

Every exchange is graded

OTA replies land in the same Chats observability as site chat — answered, low confidence, couldn’t answer — so you see exactly where it needed you.

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Not another auto-responder

Scheduled messages send the same words to everyone. Generic AI writes something plausible. Haven answers the guest’s actual question from your own listing, and knows which questions are not its to answer.

Scheduled PMS templates

Useful for the check-in message on day one. No help at all when the guest asks something the template did not anticipate.

Generic AI reply tools

Fast and fluent, but answering from what rentals usually have, with no idea which questions a host would never want an AI to settle.

Haven AI guest messaging

The assistant already trained on your listing and guidebook, checked before every send, private details gated by booking, decisions handed back to you — and every exchange graded so it keeps improving.

Frequently asked questions

Hospitable, Hostfully, Lodgify, OwnerRez, Hostaway, Hostex, Uplisting, Host Tools, Smoobu and Beds24 reply inside the booking conversation. Guesty replies inside the Airbnb conversation and by email for Vrbo and Booking.com, which is how Guesty delivers on those channels. Track replies on the guest’s booking channel on its next scheduled check. iGMS joins once iGMS enables guest messages and replies for Haven and you reconnect, and an OwnerRez connection made before 28 October 2026 needs one reconnect first. Elina’s connection carries no messages, and an Airbnb account connected directly, or a PMS that reaches Haven through it, only allows saved templates, so a written reply is not possible there.

Anything about your property it answers only from your listing, your guidebook and your AI knowledge — never from what rentals are usually like. Questions about the area, like the weather or whether somewhere is open, it looks up live and answers only when it is confident. Every reply is graded against the guest’s question before it goes; a vague reply, or one containing contact details before a booking or an arrival secret too early, is held as a draft instead. If you want to read everything first, use Draft for approval: nothing reaches a guest until you press Send.

Refunds, cancellations, changes to dates or guest count, discounts, payments, deposits, damage, exceptions to your house rules, complaints, safety questions and anyone asking for you. You get the guest’s question, a one-line summary of what they need and a suggested reply, by email and, if you like, by text. The assistant keeps answering the guest’s other questions in the thread while that one waits for you; pause the conversation from your inbox if you want it fully out of the way.

It is built not to. Before a booking it never shares a phone number, an email address, a link or a street address, and it never suggests booking or paying anywhere else. A reply that somehow contains any of those is held as a draft rather than sent.

Only to a booked guest, and only once your listing’s reveal window has opened and any pre-arrival steps you require are done — the same rules your guest portal follows. Until then, it cannot see the code at all.

Replies go out in your name in the booking thread. If a guest asks whether they are talking to a person, it says it is your automated assistant and that you read the conversation too.

Usually within a minute. It waits a few seconds after a guest’s last message so that a burst of messages gets one reply covering all of them.

Yes. Each listing can be left out from Message automations or its own Arrival tab, and any single conversation can be paused from the inbox.

AI guest messaging is part of Haven’s paid plans, alongside the rest of automated guest messaging. There is no per-message fee.

Next step

Let your guests hear back in seconds.

Connect your PMS, start in Draft for approval, and watch the replies write themselves from your own listing.

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