Earn $3 to $19.80 a month per host you bring.
Recommend staymanual to short-term rental hosts. When they sign up through your link and move to a paid plan, you earn 20% of what they pay, every month they stay subscribed. No cap, no expiry, no minimum payout.
Free to join. You don’t need to be a rental host yourself.
What it pays
20% of what your hosts pay. Every month.
- Solo
Host pays $15/mo · 2–5 properties
$3.00/month to youEvery month they stay subscribed
- StudioCommon
Host pays $39/mo · 6–15 properties
$7.80/month to youEvery month they stay subscribed
- Portfolio
Host pays $99/mo · 16–50 properties
$19.80/month to youEvery month they stay subscribed
Refer 10 Portfolio hosts over time, and that’s $198 a month, every month. Could take you a few weeks if you know a lot of property managers, or stretch over a year if you mention it casually. Either way it keeps paying as long as they stay subscribed.
How it works
Three steps. Then it pays you monthly.
- 1
Share your link or code
Sign up and you get a personal link plus a short code. Pass either to anyone who runs short-term rentals: a friend with a guesthouse, your neighbour who lists on Airbnb, the host of the place you stayed last summer. Works in person, on WhatsApp, in host groups, anywhere.
- 2
They sign up + upgrade
If they tap your link, your code is attached automatically. If you just told them the code in person, they enter it on their account page after sign-up. Either way, when they move from Free to a paid plan, you appear as the referrer.
- 3
You get paid monthly
By the 10th of each month, in US dollars, by Wise (a global money-transfer service, fast and low fees). For the prior month. No minimum payout, so if you earned $3, you get $3.
What you’re recommending
staymanual makes the “3 AM WiFi question” stop happening.
Short-term rental hosts get the same questions over and over: WiFi, check-in, parking, the bin day. staymanual turns those answers into a phone-friendly guide that guests reach by scanning one QR sticker. The host writes it once, updates it any time, and never reprints the QR. Free for the first property. Paid plans cover up to 50.
- One QR per property, reused for every stay
- Guests read in their own language (12 supported)
- Time-aware Call Host (no 3 AM phone)
- No app, no login for the guest
- Live announcement banner per property
- Digital guest book and check-out
Hosts pick this because it’s simpler and cheaper than the alternatives. See every feature plainly explained.
How to share it
Two ways. Both count.
Send the link
Drop your personal link in a WhatsApp message, an email, or a host group. Anyone who taps it lands on staymanual with your code already attached. They sign up, and you get credit automatically.
Best for online sharing: host groups, social, group chats, your website.
Hand over the code in person
Tell a friend, neighbour, or a host you know face-to- face: “Sign up at staymanual.app. Use my code, it’s on my account page.” They sign up, enter your code on their account page, and you start earning.
Best for the friend with a guesthouse, the neighbour on Airbnb, the host of the place you’re staying.
Either way, your code stays attached to them for every month they keep paying. They can also enter the code after sign-up if they forgot. It’s never too late to apply it (until they upgrade to a paid plan).
The rules
Six plain-English rules.
If they upgrade a tier mid-month
From that month on, you earn the higher payout. Solo to Studio means $3 becomes $7.80.
If they downgrade mid-month
Their plan change kicks in at their next renewal. After that, you earn the lower payout.
If they cancel
You keep earning until the end of the month they already paid for. After that, no payout, unless they resubscribe.
If they get a refund
No payout for that month. Refunds reverse the earnings automatically.
If they stay on Free
No payout. Free hosts don't pay us, so there's nothing to share.
When you get paid
By the 10th of each month, by Wise. Send us your Wise email the first time you earn anything.
No cap on earnings. No expiry on referrals. No self-referrals (we check). Questions? Email support@staymanual.app.
Want the deeper read?
New to referral marketing? We wrote a beginner’s guide.
Fourteen places to share your link with what works on each, the language that converts (and the pushy stuff that doesn’t), an honest earnings table from $30 to $3,000+ a month, and a five-step start. Written for people who’ve never done this before.
How to earn passive income referring rental hosts →Ready to start?
Free to join. Your link is ready as soon as you sign up. Share it on social, in your podcast notes, or anywhere you talk to short-term rental hosts.