For Airbnb hosts

How to make a QR code guide for your Airbnb

Most guest messages are the same four questions: the wifi password, the check-in time, how the heating works, and where to eat. A guest guide behind a QR code answers them before the guest types anything. Here is how hosts usually set one up.

1. Write down what guests actually ask

Go through your last twenty messages and count the repeats. In most rentals the list ends up looking like this:

• — Wifi name and password, written so it can be copied on a phone.
• — Check-in and check-out times, door codes, where the keys go.
• — Heating, hot water, washing machine, TV and dishwasher.
• — House rules: shoes, smoking, pets, quiet hours, rubbish and recycling.
• — Parking, and how to get to the place with and without a car.
• — Local tips: the shop, the bakery, one walk, two places to eat.
• — Emergency numbers and your own number for things that can't wait.

2. Put it on one mobile page

A PDF is hard to read on a phone and impossible to correct once it is printed. A plain web page is better: it loads fast, it works without an app or a login, and you can fix the wifi password at 22:00 without reprinting anything. Keep it to one page with clear headings so guests can scan it standing in the hallway with a suitcase in one hand.

3. Turn the link into a QR code

Any QR generator can encode a link, but the part that matters is that the link never changes. If the address moves, every printed card in the flat is dead. Use a fixed link for the code and let the content behind it change instead. In QRbnb every guide gets a permanent code address, so you print once.

4. Print it and put it where guests look

One card by the door, one on the fridge, one next to the router. Add a line of text above the code — "Wifi, check-in and house rules" — so people know why they should scan it. Paste the same link into your Airbnb message templates for the guests who never scan anything.

5. Keep it private

A guest guide holds door codes and alarm details, so it should not show up in search results. Guides in QRbnb sit behind their own secret link, are marked no-index, and are not listed anywhere public. If you ever need to cut access, rotate the link.