How it works

A 6-minute tour of what AwayWatch actually does.

Not a feature list — a walk through a real day managing a vacation rental from 5,000 miles away.

Home How it works
1 Your morning

Open the Morning Brief. Know what needs you today.

One screen, four lanes: Bookings, Property ops, Money, Compliance. Each card answers three questions: what happened, why it matters, and what button moves it forward. Handle the urgent items, dismiss the rest.

  • Late vendors, unpaid bills, draft receipts to confirm
  • Upcoming turnovers and cleaning visits
  • Tax deadlines and compliance expirations
  • "Done today" / "Not relevant" — cards disappear without deleting data
Morning Brief — your daily action list
2 Bookings

Every channel syncs. Every stay has a tax line.

Connect Airbnb, VRBO, Smoobu, or any iCal feed. Bookings appear automatically with guest name, dates, platform, and gross/net amounts. Each carry its own tax rules — AwayWatch tracks which platform remits and which doesn't.

  • Paste an iCal URL → bookings arrive in seconds
  • Per-booking door codes for guest portal login
  • Platform tax remittance tracking (Airbnb remits, direct doesn't)
  • Occupancy calendar colour-coded by channel
Bookings — multi-channel sync
3 Bills & bank

Drop a receipt. The AI files it.

Photo, PDF, or forwarded email — AI extracts vendor, date, amount, and category. Upload your bank statement as CSV and charges auto-match invoices. Per-vendor utility analysis splits fixed from variable costs.

  • AI extraction from photos, PDFs, forwarded emails
  • Bank statement auto-matching with pattern memory
  • Multiple email inboxes per property for bill ingestion
  • PM transfers reconcile one lump sum → multiple vendor bills
Bills triage — AI-extracted receipts
4 Tax season

Your CPA gets a packet. Not a phone call.

DR-15, Lee TDT, DR-405 — helper modals walk you through each form with copy-ready line numbers. Portal credentials saved encrypted. The Schedule E packet writes itself in January. Year-end closing checklist catches every missing receipt and unapproved draft.

  • All 67 Florida counties with correct surtax rates
  • Balance sheet, CPA packet, books-readiness score
  • Estimated quarterly tax calculator
  • K-1 and Form 8825 partnership support
DR-15 tax filing helper with copy-ready numbers
5 Property ops

Eyes on the house. Even from 5,000 miles away.

Templated inspections auto-generated from your room layout. Cleaners snap photos and tick items off. AI vision scans every photo for mildew, damage, and missing items — before they become guest claims. Vendor visits tracked with W-9 status and overdue alerts.

  • Room-by-room inspection templates with AI photo scan
  • Cleaning checklists with sign-off
  • Vendor service schedules and overdue alerts
  • Property timeline for audit trail
Inspection walkthrough with AI findings
6 Guest questions

11pm in Cape Coral. 5am in Luxembourg.

Guests log in with their email and door code. They ask anything in any language — the AI answers from your house manual, area facts, and previous Q&As. Lockouts and refund requests escalate to you automatically. Your phone stops ringing at 2am.

  • Per-stay concierge trained on your house
  • Automatic escalation for lockouts and refund requests
  • Quick setup wizard — 18 questions to seed the knowledge base
  • Bulk import facts from PDFs, photos, or pasted text
AI guest concierge chat
Getting started

From signup to first receipt in 30 minutes.

1

Get an invitation

Request beta access from the home page. We onboard a small group at a time to keep the product polished. You'll hear back within 48 hours.

2

Run the Setup wizard

Five steps: property attributes, owner entity, tax pattern, branding, operations. Configures the right tax forms, compliance defaults, and email templates for your situation.

3

Drop your first receipt

Snap a photo, email it to your property inbox, or upload a PDF. AI extracts the details. Your books are now real. From here, every booking and bill flows automatically.

Setup wizard
Honest boundaries

What AwayWatch doesn't do

We don't file your taxes

We generate the right packets — Schedule E, DR-15 worksheet, TDT report, 1099-NEC CSV — and you or your CPA file them. This keeps us out of CPA-license territory and your books fully under your control.

We don't replace your booking platform

AwayWatch sits next to Airbnb, VRBO, and your channel manager. It pulls bookings in — it doesn't push them out. Keep your existing setup.

Ready to take control of your vacation rental?

AwayWatch is invitation-only during beta. Tell us about your rental and we'll get back to you within 48 hours.

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