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WhatsApp for Short-Term Rentals: Automating Guest Communication

Short-term rental managers with multiple apartments spend hours every day responding to repetitive guest messages. WhatsApp Business API with automations drastically reduces this workload, maintains high communication quality, and improves guest ratings.

WhatsApp for Short-Term Rentals: Automating Guest Communication

Automated communication sequence

The communication sequence for each booking includes: booking confirmation with welcome message, check-in instructions 24 hours before arrival, welcome message on arrival day, mid-stay check-in, and pre-departure message with check-out instructions.

This entire flow can be fully automated with Chat API and Make integrated with your booking channel.

Managing guest requests

A WhatsApp FAQ chatbot for guests automatically answers the most frequent questions. These questions always arrive at the same times and the chatbot can respond 24/7 without the manager.

Review collection

Send a WhatsApp message to the guest the day after check-out with a link to the review page on Airbnb or Booking.

Multi-property management

For managers with more than 5 properties, manual communication management becomes impossible. Chat API with channel manager integration fully automates communications for each booking in each property.

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