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Automate the repetitive admin between your bookings and your back office.

Guide

How to Connect Airbnb to Make

Airbnb has no Make app for hosts. Here is how to send each new, changed or cancelled Airbnb booking to a Make scenario through a custom webhook, what the message contains and what the method cannot do.

How do I connect Airbnb to Make? →
Guide

How to Connect Airbnb to Zapier, Make or Slack

Airbnb gives hosts no Zapier app. Here is how to send each new, changed or cancelled Airbnb booking to Zapier or Slack, what Airflow already does without it, eight automations worth building, and what the method cannot do.

How do I connect Airbnb to Zapier or Slack? →
Guide

How to Connect Airbnb to n8n

Airbnb has no n8n node for hosts. Here is how to get each new, changed or cancelled Airbnb booking into an n8n workflow through a Webhook node, with the fields you receive and how to check the signature.

How do I connect Airbnb to n8n? →
Guide

Connect Out: Send Booking Events to Your Other Systems

How Connect out works: add a web address, choose the events, and Airflow sends a signed message when a booking is created, changed or cancelled, or a payment is received. What is sent, the money lines, how retries work and how to check a signature.

How can I send my bookings to other automation systems? →
Product

Nobody Should Manage a Night Cap by Hand

Counting nights against a letting limit every month, for every property, forever, is a job that fails quietly. What it takes to hand it over safely — and what should still need your say-so.

Can a night cap be managed automatically? →
Product

Open an Airflow Account Without Leaving WhatsApp

Message Airflow on WhatsApp and you can sign up, set up your listing from a link to it, set your price and put your booking page live, all in the chat. Here is how it works, step by step, and what it does not do yet.

Can I open an Airflow account on WhatsApp? →
Guide

Is There One Inbox for Airbnb, VRBO and Booking.com Guest Messages?

Yes, but only from software with an official connection to each platform. What a unified inbox needs, which kind of tool provides it, what it costs you in setup, and what Airflow does and does not do here.

Is there one inbox for Airbnb, VRBO and Booking.com messages? →
Guide

What to Send a Guest Before Arrival, and When

A pre-arrival timeline for short-term rental hosts: what to send at booking, once paid, a week out, three days out and on check-in day, and how to automate it.

What should I send a guest before arrival, and when? →
Tips

Your Guests Keep Asking the Same Five Questions

The five questions every short-term rental guest asks before arrival, and how to answer each one once, in a place guests can find, instead of in every inbox.

How do I stop answering the same guest questions? →
Guide

The Plan Has a Price. What Did Last Month Actually Cost?

What running an Airflow account costs in a quiet month and a busy one, which work uses automated tasks and which is free, and where to read your own number in the portal.

What does an Airflow account really cost each month? →
Product

A Booking Is a Thing at a Time

One booking engine for nights, days, per-person tours, appointments and timed sessions, with the same checkout, invoice and books behind every type.

Can one system take nights, tours and appointments? →
Guide

Know What the Import Will Cost Before It Runs

Running out of credits mid-batch is worse than being refused at the start. Airflow prices the work before it runs and refuses short batches whole.

How do I know what an import will cost before it runs? →
Product

Thirty Emails, or One

One digest instead of an email per event, with a per-event choice of immediately, in the digest, or off, and silent failures surfaced so you can fix them.

Can I get one daily digest instead of thirty emails? →
Product

It's a Trip, Not a Booking

Guests have trips, not bookings. Paste an itinerary or forward a flight confirmation and Airflow builds the plan: stays, flights and activities in one place.

How do I turn an itinerary into one trip plan? →
Product

Your Reviews, On Every Surface You Own

Put your Airbnb and Google reviews on your own booking page, website and embeds. Airflow reads them out of the notification emails you already receive.

How do I put my reviews on my own booking page? →
Product

Go Live on Your Own Terms

Publish your direct booking page, your marketplace listing and your website embed separately, per property. Or run Airflow accounting-only, with no public page.

Can I publish my booking page and listing separately? →
Insights

Admin That Handles Itself

A booking email arrives. By the time you've read it, the data is filed, the invoice is drafted in your accounting software, and the next steps are already moving.

What happens after a booking email arrives? →
Guide

Forward Booking Emails from Gmail to Airflow

Your Airbnb and Booking.com confirmations land in Gmail. Here's how to turn them into structured bookings, by hand or automatically.

How do I forward booking emails from Gmail? →
Guide

Forward Booking Emails from Outlook to Airflow

Booking confirmations sitting in Outlook? Here's how to turn them into structured records, by forwarding or by connecting your account.

How do I forward booking emails from Outlook? →
Product

Run Your Bookings From WhatsApp: Forward, Complete, Confirm

Airflow lives on WhatsApp. Forward a booking and it's logged automatically, ask about your income and upcoming guests, change prices, block dates, pause a listing, and add photos to your gallery — all from the chat. No browser required.

Can I run my bookings from WhatsApp? →
Guide

From Spreadsheets to Real STR Bookkeeping (Without the Pain)

Moving from an Airbnb spreadsheet to real bookkeeping: where spreadsheets break for hosts, what proper accounting gives you, and how to make the switch painless.

How do I move from a spreadsheet to real bookkeeping? →
Insights

Bookkeeper vs PMS vs Airflow: An Honest Breakdown

Bookkeeper vs PMS vs Airflow for short-term rentals: what each one actually does, what it does not, and how to combine them without paying for overlap.

Do I need a bookkeeper, a PMS or Airflow? →
Insights

Channel Manager vs. Better Accounting: What You Actually Need

A channel manager distributes rates and availability across OTAs. Airflow connects bookings to your accounting. Here is how to tell which problem you actually have.

Do I need a channel manager or better accounting? →
Guide

Automated Guest Communications

How Airflow sends the right message to your guests at the right time — booking confirmations, pre-arrival info, check-in instructions, and follow-ups.

How do automated guest messages work? →
Product

Stop Sending Guest Emails Manually — Automate the Entire Journey

Airflow's Automations addon sends the right email at the right time — pre-arrival, check-in, post-checkout — once you've set it up, automatically for every booking.

How do I automate my guest emails? →
Guide

Automatic Accounting Sync

How Airflow automatically creates draft invoices in Xero, QuickBooks, FreshBooks, or Sage from your booking data — with correct line items, taxes, and FX.

How does Airflow create invoices in my accounting software? →
Product

Your Booking Confirmation Emails Are a Goldmine You're Ignoring

Every booking confirmation email contains guest details, dates, amounts, fees, and platform data. You're reading them once and filing them. Here's what you should be doing instead.

What can I do with my booking confirmation emails? →
Product

From Checkout to Account in 60 Seconds

Pick your plan, enter your card, and your entire Airflow account is live before you finish your coffee. Here's how the onboarding pipeline works.

How quickly is my Airflow account ready after sign-up? →
Product

Meet AI Flow: Your Booking Business Has an AI Assistant Now

AI Flow is a context-aware AI assistant built into Airflow. It knows your bookings, your settings, and your business — and it costs a fraction of what you'd expect.

What can Airflow's AI assistant do? →
Product

Automated Accounting: From Booking Email to Draft Invoice in Seconds

How Airflow turns a forwarded booking confirmation into a categorised, tax-ready draft invoice in your accounting software — without you touching a spreadsheet.

How does a booking email become a draft invoice? →
Product

Connect Everything: Xero, Stripe, Google, and Beyond

Airflow connects your booking channels to your accounting, payments, calendar, and email — without replacing any of them.

Does Airflow connect to Xero, Stripe and Google? →
Insights

Why Every Booking Business Needs a Middleware Layer

You're the human middleware between your booking platforms, your accounting software, and your clients. Here's why that needs to change.

Why does a booking business need a middleware layer? →
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