I rely on the booking sites. They’ve found me guests and helped me build the business. But once you take bookings from more than one place, no one site gives you the whole picture.
I had dates in different calendars, notes in different places and, if I’m honest, far too much in my head. Cream for the next changeover. The Christmas decorations up before the first December guests. And the bigger questions: had October actually been a good month, and what could I still do about the gaps in the diary?
I wanted to open something in the morning and feel on top of the day. Who’s coming, what’s happening at each place, what I still need to do. And I wanted to understand my numbers without stitching together bits from several sites.
Daybook grew out of that. It’s made by a host, for hosts. It isn’t here to run your business for you. It’s here to give you a clearer view of it.
What I hold it to
A few rules I built it by, because I wanted them for my own places.
- It says what it knows, and how it knows it. Every figure says what it stands on. A calendar it couldn’t read is said in words, not left as a gap.
- It never acts for you. It reads your calendars and the emails you forward. It doesn’t change anything on the sites, and it doesn’t send a message you haven’t sent.
- It doesn’t tell you a price. It tells you what you earned, and where from. The decisions are yours.
- It’s quiet when nothing needs you. And it says so, so you can put the phone down.
Write to me
If something in Daybook is wrong, unclear or missing, email hello@daybookforhosts.com. I read every one.
Anthony Williams, Wiltshire