CleverStay vs ChargeAutomationChargeAutomation centers on the check-in transaction: guest details, agreements, signatures. CleverStay centers on the stay itself - printed placements, synced digital guides, and AI chat that answers guests without ever storing who they are.
Building guides is free, forever. Your 14-day Pro trial starts when your printed cards arrive, not before.
No guest accounts, no email capture, no document uploads. CleverStay reads stay windows from your calendar feed and drops everything else at parse time. There is nothing about your guests for us to lose - and nothing extra for you to disclose.
Check-in platforms put registration and agreements between the guest and the stay. CleverStay starts where the guest is standing: scan the sign, ask the question, get the cited answer.
Printed cards, weatherproof stickers, and engraved signs at every point of need - kept in sync with the digital guide, and flagged for reprint the moment your edits make them stale.
ChargeAutomation and CleverStay solve different halves of hosting. This table shows where they overlap, and where each deliberately stops.
App and web onlyNothing printed to syncStay windows from any calendar feed - no guest data storedPer ChargeAutomation's marketingCheck-in flows collect guest details by designBy design - that's check-in-platform territoryPer ChargeAutomation's marketingAbout this comparison: based on public information - vendor sites, documentation, and marketing - reviewed in July 2026. Where we could not verify a claim from primary sources, the cell says so. If something here is out of date, tell us at support@cleverstay.ai and we’ll fix it.
SwitchersWhy hosts made the move, in their own words
“Our check-in tool kept asking guests for more - details, signatures, upsells. Guests just wanted the gate code. Now the sign at the gate answers that, and check-in day unlocks it automatically.”
“I'd rather hold zero guest data than manage another consent flow. CleverStay's whole design starts from that - and the printed cards mean guests actually use it.”
Give guests instant, cited answers from a printed sign - and keep their personal data entirely out of your stack.