What Santara AI does
One workspace for the channels you sell on, the calendar behind them, the people who clean, and the money at the end.
Santara AI is operations software for short-term rentals. You connect the places you already sell — Airbnb, Booking.com, your own booking site — and from then on there is one calendar, one inbox, one cleaning schedule and one set of books, instead of a browser with six tabs open.
It is not a listing site. Santara never takes a commission on a booking, and guests never book “through Santara” unless you publish your own direct booking site, which is yours and paid into your own Stripe account.
What it replaces
Section titled “What it replaces”| Instead of | You get |
|---|---|
| Checking three extranets each morning | Today — arrivals, departures, and what needs a decision, written out |
| Copying dates between calendars | One calendar — every night, every room, pushed to every channel |
| Two message inboxes | Messages — one thread per guest, replies go back out on the channel they booked on |
| A WhatsApp group for cleaning | Tasks — turnovers created automatically the night before a checkout |
| Editing prices by hand every Sunday | Smart pricing — rules that move nightly rates by season, lead time and how full you are |
| A spreadsheet per owner | Reports and accounting — revenue in, costs out, owner statements |
What is actually automatic
Section titled “What is actually automatic”Santara is deliberate about this, because software that acts on a live listing without being asked is how a host loses a booking:
- Turnover tasks appear on their own the night before each checkout.
- Bookings, guests, messages and reviews sync from every connected channel.
- Prices worked out by your pricing rules are published to the channels.
- Upsell opportunities — late checkout, an extra night, early arrival — are spotted from the calendar and offered to you as a draft.
- The daily brief is written for you each morning, in your language.
And what is not:
- Your calendar is not taken over when you import a listing. Importing reads your listings; it changes nothing on the channel. Control only moves when you press Go live. See Going live.
- Prices you type by hand stay put unless you explicitly allow the pricing engine to overwrite them.
- Nothing is sent to a guest without you. The assistant and the message tools draft; you send.
Who it is for
Section titled “Who it is for”Hosts with one villa up to operators running a few hundred doors. The screens are the same; what changes is who can see what — see Team and roles. Cleaners get their jobs and nothing else. Owners get statements, not your inbox.
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