Short-term rental automation

Your short-term rental,
on autopilot.

Your home demands fifty small things a week — door codes, pool temperatures, freeze forecasts, the cleaner who arrives Tuesdays. RentalHelm does them all, quietly, while you're at the beach.

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If any of this sounds familiar

Did I turn on the pool heater? Did the property manager change the lock batteries?

You bought a vacation home for the weekends, not for the paperwork. RentalHelm is the calm software layer that takes care of the property when you'd rather be doing anything else.

One calm dashboard

Your whole property,
on one screen.

Door codes, pool temperatures, AC, locks, bookings, and the guests who'll be in next. Open the dashboard with your morning coffee and the whole property reports for duty.

RentalHelm dashboard open on a MacBook on a marble kitchen counter in a Florida vacation home
90 days
of hourly pool & AC history kept on file
4 PMS
OwnerRez, Hostaway, Ciirus & Lodgix, today
30 min
live booking sync — door codes program themselves
24/7
push alerts for the things that matter

Works with the systems you already use

OwnerRez Hostaway Ciirus Lodgix Airbnb Vrbo Yale Schlage Z-Wave Home Assistant
01 — Guest access

No more sharing codes.

Every guest gets a unique 4-digit code that activates at check-in and expires at checkout. Permanent codes for cleaners, family, and the gardener who needs Tuesday access — all programmed to your locks, automatically.

  • Unique guest PINs — auto-expire at check-out
  • Permanent codes for cleaners, managers, and family
  • Access profiles — a set of locks per role, in one click
  • Full audit log — who, when, which door
See it in the demo
Smart lock with brass keypad on a dark wood front door, glowing softly at dusk

A Yale or Schlage Z-Wave keypad you may already own — RentalHelm programs them all.

A MacBook showing the OwnerRez booking calendar beside an iPad showing the RentalHelm dashboard — bookings flowing from one to the other automatically
02 — Bookings, on autopilot

Your bookings, on autopilot.

Connect OwnerRez, Hostaway, Ciirus or Lodgix once. New bookings sync every 30 minutes; door codes are programmed in advance and removed at checkout — without a phone call, a text, or a single thought from you.

  • Live booking sync every 30 minutes, four PMSs supported
  • Run multiple PMSs side-by-side on the same property
  • Codes programmed to hardware before the guest arrives
  • Booking tags trigger pool heating, automatically
  • No PMS? Add guests by hand in seconds
See it in the demo
After dark

When the sun goes down,
RentalHelm is still on watch.

Doors lock themselves at the time you set. Pool pumps run on schedule. Freeze forecasts trigger overnight protection. You sleep — your house works.

03 — Pool & Spa

Pool, kept perfect.

Heat the pool the day a booking checks in. Stand it down the day they leave. Watch the freeze forecast and protect the pipes overnight. The pool reads its own temperature, hour by hour, for 90 days — useful evidence when a guest writes to ask.

  • Remote heat & target temperature from your phone
  • Daily filter-pump schedule, or different per day
  • Freeze protection — pumps run automatically when frost is forecast
  • Filter auto-restart after a power outage — no silent failures
  • 90-day hourly temperature record, downloadable
See the pool dashboard
RentalHelm Pool & Spa dashboard with live water temperature, dual setpoint heating mode and filter pump schedule
RentalHelm Lock Manager — live battery percentages, online status, and lock/unlock control for every door
04 — Hardware

Locks that report for duty.

Live battery percentage on every lock. Online status. Lock or unlock any door remotely. No more silent failures the night before a guest's arrival — RentalHelm checks each lock is awake before programming, and emails you the moment a battery slips below your threshold.

  • Live battery percentage, on every lock
  • Online / offline status · locked / unlocked state
  • Lock or unlock any door remotely
  • Alive-check before programming — no silent failures
  • Low-battery email alerts at your chosen threshold
05 — Automations

If / then for your home.

Set the rules once, never think about them again. Four built-in automations cover the things most owners forget — and a single email tells you when each one fires.

Pool heat for guests

Tagged bookings turn the pool heater on at check-in and off at check-out — totally hands-off.

Freeze protection

Watches the hourly forecast. When frost is on the way, the pump runs continuously through the night.

Door auto-lock

Door left open longer than you'd like? It's quietly closed — with an optional email if you want one.

Filter auto-restart

Detects an unscheduled stop — power cut, breaker trip — and starts the pump again. You'll find an email about it in the morning.

Alerts & push notifications

The good news lands in
your inbox. The bad news
lands faster.

The moment a lock battery slips, the front door is left open, the pool heater goes offline, or a freeze warning arrives — you know. By email if you're at the desk, by push if you're at the beach.

  • "Front door lock battery 20%" — replace before the next guest arrives
  • "Pool filter restarted after a power cut" — already handled, just informing you
  • "Freeze warning for tonight" — pump is running, pipes protected
  • "Guest arriving tomorrow at 4pm" — door code already programmed, you're ready
  • "Hub offline for 10 minutes" — investigate, if you wish

Every alert is configurable. Decide which channels (email, push, both) — and at what threshold — for each event type. No noise, just the signals you care about.

An iPad on a sunny patio table showing a RentalHelm 'Front door lock battery 20% — replace soon' alert, beside an orange juice and a straw hat

A real alert. The owner is at the beach. The house knows what to say.

06 — Team access

Your team, with the keys to exactly what they need.

Invite your property manager, your pool guy, your cleaner — and grant each one exactly the latitude they need. Nothing more, nothing less. Revoke access with a single click.

  • Email invitation, secure for 24 hours
  • Granular per-area permissions
  • Hide permanent users' PIN codes from staff
  • One login governs many properties
RentalHelm User Manager — invite a colleague with granular per-feature permissions
Getting started

Up and running this afternoon.

No engineers. No long contracts. Two small devices, an account, and a quiet hour with our guide.

Step I

Add the hub.

A small Home Assistant box that sits next to your router. Plug-and-play.

Home Assistant Green ↗
Step II

Connect your locks.

A small Z-Wave USB stick speaks to the Z-Wave hardware you already own.

Z-Wave USB ↗
Step III

Open your account.

Free during beta. Follow the illustrated setup guide and you're live.

Read the setup guide ↗
Switching from Alarm.com or PointCentral

Keep the hardware. Replace the platform.

Most Z-Wave locks and pool equipment can be factory-reset and re-paired to a Home Assistant hub — so your existing hardware survives. Proprietary thermostats and doorbells are easy to swap.

Talk to us

Prefer we do the rigging? Professional setup from $299.

A hand holding an iPhone with the RentalHelm app open — adjusting pool temperature poolside
The mobile app

Carry the property in your pocket.

Adjust the pool from the airport. Hand the cleaner a one-time code from the freeway. Real-time alerts for the things that matter: low lock batteries, guest check-ins, pool heater offline.

  • Push alerts: "Front door battery 20%", "Guest checked in", "Pool heater offline"
  • Live pool & spa control with dual-setpoint heating
  • Issue, revoke and read door codes from anywhere
  • Trusted-device sign-in with email-code 2FA
  • Same login as the web — nothing extra to set up
Download on the App Store Arriving soon at Google Play Soon
In development

Already shipping. Always more on the way.

What we're working on next. Beta subscribers get early-adopter access to each.

07

Auto AC shutdown.

Door left wide open for 5+ minutes? AC stands down automatically. Closes? It resumes.

In development
08

More PMS integrations.

Lodgify and direct Airbnb next. If yours isn't listed, let us know.

Forthcoming
09

AI-powered thermostat rules.

A weather-aware engine that adjusts the thermostat every hour — comfort preserved, energy slashed.

Forthcoming

Got something we should build? Send us your feedback — useful ideas get built at no charge.

Pricing

Free during beta. Honest at launch.

No credit card to start. No surprises later. Same flat price whether your property has one lock or twenty.

Live now · Beta
Free
$0 / month

Every feature, every property, no credit card. Your beta-adopter status is preserved at launch.

  • Every feature, unrestricted
  • Unlimited locks · unlimited guests
  • All four PMS integrations
  • Pool, automations & alerts
  • Team access with permissions
Start free
At launch
All-in
$9.99 / month

Everything above, flat-rate, indefinitely. Optional add-ons as your needs grow.

  • Access control, PMS sync, pool, automations — all included
  • Unlimited properties under one login
  • Priority support
Optional add-on
RentalHelm AI
+ $1.99/mo

Beta subscribers receive permanent early-adopter rates.

One last thing

Run your rental
like a business, not a job.

Sign up in two minutes, or try the live demo and watch a sample property run itself.

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