For Airbnb, vacation rental & multi-property operators

Every booking creates work long after the booking

A dedicated short-term rental assistant team across the whole guest lifecycle — working your listings, your channels and your rules.

The kitchen and dining area of a furnished short-term rental apartment

The workload scales with listings. The hours do not.

What scales with listings

  • Message volume across every channel
  • Booking changes and cancellations
  • Arrival and access problems
  • Maintenance and cleaning coordination
  • Review requests and responses
  • Owner and administrative reporting

What usually does not

  • The number of people answering
  • The hours those people are awake
  • Weekend and holiday availability
  • Tolerance for a 3am problem
  • Time left for growth and acquisition
  • Capacity to absorb a season

What a dedicated team covers

Before the stay

Enquiry to arrival

  • Guest enquiries and booking questions
  • OTA and direct-channel messaging
  • Reservation changes and date moves
  • Cancellation requests per your policy
  • Pre-arrival communication
  • Check-in instructions and access
  • Special requests captured and actioned

During the stay

Arrival to check-out

  • Live guest messaging and calls
  • Access and arrival problems
  • Issue triage and de-escalation
  • Maintenance coordination
  • Housekeeping coordination
  • Mid-stay and extension requests
  • Escalation to you where policy applies

After the stay

Check-out to rebooking

  • Check-out follow-up
  • Closing open issues
  • Review requests
  • Review responses, to your approval
  • Service recovery after a poor stay
  • Repeat-guest outreach
  • Case notes and handover

Beyond guest messaging: the rest of the assistant’s work

Property operations & turnover coordination

Dispatching cleaners, contractors and maintenance, chasing confirmation, and closing the loop with the guest — followed through rather than forwarded.

Reservation administration & records

Calendar accuracy, listing and property data upkeep, reservation records, owner reporting, and the back-office work that accumulates between stays.

Managing properties for owners?

After-hours guest communication

Evening, overnight and weekend cover staffed to an agreed window, including shift cover for US, UK and Australian time zones.

Or hand the guest inbox over

Peak-season capacity

Team size for the season is agreed with you and adjusted as your volume changes. Capacity added mid-season arrives too late to be trained, so it is scoped before the peak starts.

Plan a season backwards

We work inside your systems

Team members are trained on your stack during onboarding, learning the tools and workflow used for the agreed work.

Booking platforms
Property management systems
Guest communication platforms
CRM systems
Email
Phone / VoIP
SMS & WhatsApp
Task & project management
Knowledge bases & SOP libraries
Reporting dashboards

Access is granted, scoped and revoked by you. Relaytask is an independent outsourcing provider and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any booking platform.

Standing up a team

Not sure which part of the operation the first person should own? What to outsource first in a vacation rental operation works it out from frequency and authority rather than frustration.

Step 01

Scope

Listings, volume, channels, coverage window and escalation rules.

Step 02

Recruit

Team member selected against your role specification.

Step 03

Onboard

A five-day onboarding setup covering your tools, your properties, your tone and your process.

Step 04

Start on live work

Production work under Team Lead supervision, once onboarding is complete.

Two ways to cover it

The work above gets covered across a portfolio one of two ways. The difference is who runs it.

Managed Support

We run the support operation. AI handles the repetitive, approved questions; trained specialists take anything needing judgment, authorisation or an exception.

Best when you want the outcome handled and not another person to manage.

How Managed Support works

Dedicated hospitality team

Office-based specialists assigned to you, working inside your own PMS, inbox and process — the way an in-house hire would, without the hiring.

Best when the work is yours to direct and you want capacity inside your systems.

See how the dedicated team works

Not sure which fits? Bring the volume and the hours you need covered to the call and we will map it to one of the two.

FAQ

Common questions

Yes. We work inside your property management system, channel inboxes and messaging tools under access you grant and can revoke. During onboarding the team learns the tools and workflow used for the agreed work.

Teams are staffed to the coverage window agreed in your service agreement, including shift cover extending into overnight hours for US, UK and Australian time zones.

It depends on message volume, channel mix and how much decision authority the team holds, not on listing count alone. We size the team from your actual volume during scoping rather than quoting a fixed ratio.

The team resolves inside the authority you document at onboarding, and escalates to your named contact only where your rules require it. That threshold is written down before go-live, so nobody improvises at 2am.

No. Relaytask is an independent outsourcing provider and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any booking platform. We work inside the accounts and permissions you provide.

Team size for the season is agreed with you ahead of the peak and adjusted as your volume changes. Capacity added during a peak arrives too late to be trained, so we plan it before it starts.

It covers the same work people hire a short-term rental, vacation rental or Airbnb virtual assistant for — guest messaging, booking changes, vendor coordination and reviews. The model differs: your team members are office-based, assigned to your account, supervised on site, and trained on your listings and tools during a five-day onboarding setup, rather than sourced from a freelance marketplace.

Partly. Everything here applies to the stay itself, but managing on behalf of owners adds a second job — owner statements and updates, approvals chased and documented, and coordination records that have to hold up months later. That side has its own page.

Property management support

Yes, as a different Relaytask service. Managed Support runs the conversations as a managed AI and human operation across your connected channels: AI answers first from listing and property knowledge you approve, and a trained specialist takes over when a conversation needs judgment or authorization, within the coverage window on your plan. The dedicated team on this page is the option to choose when you want your own trained people working inside the process you already run.

Managed Support for guest messaging

Get Started Today

Tell us your listing count

Listings, channels and the hours you need covered. We come back with a team shape.

  • Free discovery call
  • Custom team recommendation
  • Office-based, dedicated to your account
  • 5-day onboarding setup
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5-day onboarding setup

Trained, supervised, office-based