For hosts who carry the risk

Where every stay begins.

Porch is trust infrastructure for independent Airbnb hosts. Greet every guest with a signed agreement. Document what happens. Defend yourself when it matters.

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How it works

Three moments. One porch.

Every guest crosses the same threshold. Porch meets them there, records the agreement, watches the stay, and stands with you if something goes wrong.

01
Greet every guest with a signed Welcome.
Before arrival
A ninety-second signed acknowledgment of your house rules, timestamped and stored. No smoking, no unregistered guests, no parties — on the record, in their own words. Refusal is itself a signal.
02
Document the stay, quietly in the background.
During the stay
Neighbor complaints, noise events, camera pings, messages between you and the guest — compiled in real time, hashed for tamper-evidence, ready when you need them. You stay out of the way. Porch keeps watch.
03
Defend yourself with evidence, not opinions.
After the stay
One-click dispute dossier formatted to Airbnb's retaliatory review policy. Pre-drafted letter, cited evidence, tamper-proof timeline. The review comes down. Your reputation stays intact.
The guest experience

From booking to signed Welcome in under two minutes.

Porch works in the background. The guest experience stays simple: book, sign, stay.

01
Guest books
Reservation confirmed on Airbnb as normal.
Guest
02
Porch detects it
Booking email auto-parsed. Host is notified.
Porch
03
Host sends link
One-click copy into Airbnb message.
Host
04
Guest reviews rules
Walks through the house rules on their phone.
Guest
05
Signs the Welcome
Typed signature. Timestamp and device logged.
Guest
06
Record filed
Host is notified. Evidence stored for the stay.
Porch
Guest action
Host action
Porch automation
Why Porch exists

Airbnb's review system punishes the hosts who enforce their own rules.

Every host knows the calculation. Call out a rule-breaking guest and risk a retaliatory one-star review that tanks your rating for months. Stay quiet and eat the deep-clean bill. Porch breaks the trade.

Without Porch

You catch a guest smoking. You know mentioning it means a retaliatory review — the kind that drops your rating from 4.98 to 4.79 overnight and takes six months to recover.

You stay quiet. You absorb the deep-clean cost. The next host deals with the same guest.

Airbnb's dispute system asks for evidence of retaliation. You have a gut feeling. They deny the removal.

With Porch

Before check-in, the guest signed a Welcome — no smoking, $500 deep-clean fee, agreed in writing.

During the stay, the neighbor complaint was forwarded. Your camera logged entry timestamps. Porch recorded it all.

When the retaliatory review arrives, the dispute writes itself. Evidence, policy, timeline. The review comes down. Your rating stays.

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I hosted for six years before I lost Guest Favorite over one retaliatory review from a guest who broke three house rules. I'd have paid ten times what this costs to have had evidence on file.
Superhost in the Catskills  ·  Two listings, five years on Airbnb
Pricing

Less than one bad review costs you.

Start simple with the Welcome. Upgrade when you want the full protection of the Record.

Welcome
Signed guest acknowledgment for every stay.
$ 9 /month per listing
  • Automatic booking detection via email
  • Branded guest Welcome flow
  • Timestamped signed acknowledgment
  • Receipt PDF for every stay
  • Completion status dashboard
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Founding hosts get the first three months free and founder pricing locked for life.

Every stay begins on the porch.

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