Built in Jeffreys Bay, for South African stays

Your rooms,
working for you.

staevi turns every room into a guest portal. One QR scan gives your guests the Wi-Fi, the house info, and the best of your town — bookable on the spot. No app to download, nothing to install.

Free to start. Works on any phone. Set up in an afternoon.

How it works

From check-in to booked-out, in three scans or less.

The QR code lives in the room. Everything else happens on the guest's own phone.

1

Guest scans the room's QR

They land in your property's portal — greeted by name, with the Wi-Fi password, door code, house rules, and your contact details right there.

No app store, no signup. It opens in the browser.
2

Everything about the stay, in one place

Your in-house menu, emergency numbers, checkout time, local tips — the twenty questions guests usually knock on your door for, answered before they ask.

You edit it all from your dashboard, live.
3

They explore and book your town

Surf lessons, boat cruises, sunset rides, dinner tables — curated local experiences they can book and pay in a few taps, with perks only staevi guests get.

You earn 30% of what staevi makes on every one of those bookings.
For guesthouse & B&B owners

Less time answering questions.
More reasons guests remember you.

staevi replaces the laminated info folder, the Wi-Fi card on the desk, and half your WhatsApp messages — and adds an income stream on top.

A permanent QR per room

Print it once, frame it, done. Each code opens that room's portal — created automatically when you add the room.

Guest messaging, minus your number

Guests message the property, not your personal WhatsApp. Rules acknowledgements, extension requests, and questions land in one inbox.

You earn on every booking your guests make

When your guest books a table or a surf lesson from their room, the operator pays staevi a booking fee — and 30% of that fee is yours. It comes out of what staevi earns, never out of the operator's takings, so nobody is worse off for you being paid. Tickets and direct room bookings pay you the same 30%.

Sell what you offer yourself

Dinner, a transfer, a guided walk — list your own offerings alongside the local operators and take the booking in the portal. No commission, no booking credits: what your guests spend with you is entirely yours.

In-house menu & room tab

Guests order the brunch or log the honesty-bar beer from their phone. It lands on their tab, settled at checkout.

Sell tickets to your own events

A long-table dinner, a full-moon braai, a workshop. Set the price and the seats, and staevi sells them — to your guests, and to anyone in town on the public events page. Scan them in at the door from your phone.

Take the next booking direct

Put a nightly rate on a room and guests can book their next stay on their way out — no listing site, no 15%. staevi takes 5%, and the money reaches you at source.

Fill the empty nights with people who already came

staevi keeps your past guests as you go — every check-in, every direct booking — and writes to them for you when a week looks quiet. Pick a message, set the offer, send. You never handle the list, and anyone who opts out is dropped before the next one.

Know who is arriving

Put next week's bookings in and they wait for you on the day, with the guest's name and number. Check them in with one tap, and the portal is ready before they park.

One dashboard for the whole house

Arrivals, check-ins, housekeeping, the till, tabs, messages, events and a guide builder — designed for one person running six rooms, not a hotel chain.

Set up in an afternoon

Add your property, name your rooms, print your codes. If you can type a Wi-Fi password, you can run staevi.

Create your account → Free to start · no card required · cancel anytime
For local experience partners

Tourists with money in hand, already in town.

Surf schools, boat charters, stables, studios, restaurants — staevi puts your listing in front of guests the night they arrive, when they're deciding what to do tomorrow.

No commission, ever

Listing is free and you keep 100% of what guests spend with you. You pay one booking credit — R50, flat, whatever the booking is worth — only when you confirm it, and it is refunded if the guest doesn’t show up. Restaurants can add their own QR menu for R249 a month if they want one; nothing else is a subscription.

You stay in control

Instant booking or approve-first — your call, per listing. Propose a new time when the weather turns. Guests pay you directly, however you already take payment.

Your perk is your billboard

A free coffee or a photo package costs you cents and makes staevi guests pick you over the place next door.

Open to everyone

What's on, where you are.

Markets, dinners, trail runs, festivals — listed by the people actually running them, sold direct. The price on the ticket is the price you pay: nothing is added at checkout.

You don't need a room or an account to open it. Guests staying at a staevi property see it inside their portal; everyone else can browse it on the web, buy a ticket, and walk in with the QR on their phone.

See what's on → Running an event? List it free.
Questions, answered

The things owners actually ask.

Do my guests need to download an app?
No. The QR code opens the portal in the phone's browser — any phone, any age, no app store, no account creation. If they can scan a menu at a restaurant, they can use staevi.
What does it cost?
The guest portal, your rooms, the QR codes, messaging and the dashboard are free, and stay free. You also earn: staevi pays you 30% of its own fee on every booking your guests make, every ticket you sell and every direct room booking. We take no commission from local partners — they keep 100% of what guests spend with them and pay one R50 booking credit when they confirm a booking, refunded on a no-show. staevi takes 5% on two things only: tickets you sell to an event, and a room booked directly through your portal. Nothing on the in-room tab, nothing on a table or an experience. staevi Pro — the concierge, your own branding and analytics — is R349 a month and entirely optional.
What if I don't have door codes, or my Wi-Fi changes?
Everything in the portal is optional and editable, live, from your dashboard. No door code? Leave it blank and guests see "your host will meet you." Change the Wi-Fi password on Tuesday and every room's portal shows the new one on Tuesday.
How do the local experience bookings work?
You choose which local operators appear in your portal — and you can invite the ones you already recommend, with a link that pre-fills their details. A guest books, the operator confirms, and the guest pays the operator directly on the day. staevi never sits between them and their money: the operator pays us a small booking credit to confirm, refunded if the guest doesn’t show up. Nothing to invoice, nothing to reconcile, and no cut coming out of anyone’s takings.
Is my guests' information safe?
Guest sessions are tied to the stay, not the person — they expire automatically at checkout, and the next guest starts clean. Card details are handled entirely by our PCI-compliant payment processor; staevi never sees or stores a card number.
What is the events board?
A public page anyone can open — no room, no account — listing what's happening nearby: markets, dinners, trail runs, festivals. Organisers list free and sell tickets direct, so there's no booking fee on top for the buyer. Guests staying at a staevi property see the same events inside their room portal, which is how a visitor finds the Thursday night market they'd otherwise never have heard about. Have a look →

Put a QR code in a room.
See what happens.

We're onboarding a small group of Eastern Cape properties first. Early-access places get white-glove setup and founding terms.

A real person replies — usually the founder, usually the same day.