Every answer has a physical placement
A weatherproof card by the hot tub, an engraved sign at the gate, a sticker by the router. Guests scan the sign in front of them and get the answer for that exact spot - not a table of contents to dig through.
CleverStay vs Touch StayTouch Stay ends at the screen. CleverStay starts at the door.
Both give your guests a polished digital guidebook. Only CleverStay puts it in the room: printed cards and engraved signs at every point of need, kept in sync with your digital edits, backed by AI chat that answers instead of linking.
Building guides is free, forever. Your 14-day Pro trial starts when your printed cards arrive, not before.
What actually sets them apart
Print and digital never drift apart
Change the wifi password once. CleverStay updates the digital guide instantly and flags exactly which printed cards are now out of date, queued for reprint. A digital-only guidebook has nothing to keep in sync - because there's nothing in the room.
AI that answers, not just a link
Touch Stay hands your guest a guidebook and hopes they read it. CleverStay's chat answers the question directly - cited to your house info, in the guest's language, honest when it doesn't know - and escalates to your phone when it actually matters.
CleverStay vs Touch Stay, feature by feature
Touch Stay is the strongest digital guidebook in the category, and this table treats it that way. Here is where the two products actually differ.
CleverStay
Touch Stay
In the room
Printed QR cards, weatherproof stickers, and engraved signs, shipped ready to place
Digital-onlyPrinted material flagged out-of-date when you edit the digital guide
Nothing printed to syncBulk QR codes for every property and placement
Their docs point to a third-party tool (qrbatch.com)Free print-at-home PDFs
Answering guests
AI chat that answers from your house info, with citations
CleverStay Pro
Declines honestly and escalates to your phone instead of guessing
CleverStay Pro
Door codes and arrival info unlock only around an active stay
From your calendar feed - no guest data stored
Local recommendations
Curated local recommendations with a map
Recommendations tied to a printed placement guests can scan
Digital-onlyWhere Touch Stay is ahead today
Scheduled guest messaging (SMS + email)
On our roadmapPaid tiers; two-way SMS is US-only with fair-use capsOffline guide access
Per Touch Stay's marketingUpsell store
Planned as placement-aware offersLocal weather in guides
Per Touch Stay'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.
SwitchersHosts who moved from a digital-only guidebook
Why hosts made the move, in their own words
Maya R.
Superhost · 6 listings, Scottsdale AZ
“We ran a digital guidebook for two years. Guests loved it when they found it. The difference now is they don't have to find anything - the card is sitting next to the thing they're asking about.”
Switched from Touch Stay6 Listings
Daniel K.
Owner-operator · 3 cabins, Lake Arrowhead CA
“Switching took an afternoon. What sold me was changing our gate code and watching CleverStay flag the two signs that needed reprinting. With a digital-only guide I'd never have known anything was stale.”
Switched from Touch Stay3 Cabins
Put your guidebook where your guests are.
Build your guides free, order prints when you're ready, and let cited AI chat take the after-hours questions.