Ciel for PMS Partners

We complement your operations, not compete with them.

Property management systems handle the operational backbone: calendars, pricing, guest communication, booking coordination, and channel distribution. That's your expertise. CielStay focuses on what happens before the booking: guest discovery and acquisition.

Our Value to Your Hosts

  • AI-powered discovery: Guests find properties through natural language search via ChatGPT, our website, or other AI agents
  • Every channel, direct first: each home links to the host's own booking site, and to Airbnb, Vrbo or Booking.com where the host also lists it there
  • Better search quality: Semantic understanding matches guests to properties based on actual needs, not just keywords
  • No channel lock-in: Guests book where they're comfortable; we don't force them onto our platform

We make the match, then step aside.

Bookings run through the systems you already operate. CielStay doesn't take payment, hold deposits, or arbitrate between hosts and guests.

How We Work Together

You (Backend Operations)

  • Calendar sync
  • Dynamic pricing
  • Guest communication
  • Channel management
  • Booking coordination
  • Payment processing

CielStay (Frontend Discovery)

  • AI-powered search
  • Guest acquisition
  • Cross-platform discovery
  • Booking channel choice
  • Direct booking links

We drive qualified guests to properties. They book through your managed channels. Everyone wins.

Simple Integration

We read the public listing pages hosts already publish, under our published crawler policy (cielstay.com/bot): we identify ourselves, respect robots.txt, and stay blocked once blocked. We display those properties in our search and link to their booking channels (Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, direct sites). Hosts can claim, correct or opt out of their listing at any time.

We don't require changing your workflow, switching platforms, or abandoning existing channel relationships. We add a discovery layer on top of what's already working.

Transparent Revenue Model

Discovery is free and stays free. Being listed, being found, and claiming a property cost nothing, and we don't charge for placement or sell ranking.

Our revenue is CielStay Pro, an optional host subscription at $100/year per property. It adds guest messaging, the host's rental agreement, calendar blocking that syncs back to their PMS as an .ics feed, monthly and yearly terms, and a monthly report, for hosts who want to arrange stays themselves. It is a flat fee, not a commission: CielStay never processes guest payments and never takes a cut of a booking. Where affiliate programs exist with booking platforms, we may participate, and we say so plainly.

This is deliberately not a threat to your role. A host on Pro is arranging a stay your software still operates, and because we take no percentage, we have no reason to push a guest toward one channel over another. We succeed when bookings increase, regardless of which platform captures them.

Why This Works

Your hosts benefit from better guest discovery without changing their operations. Your calendar occupancy increases. Your relationships with hosts strengthen because you're connected to a discovery platform that drives bookings.

We don't compete for your operational role. We don't force hosts onto a new booking platform. We don't try to extract margin by obscuring pricing. We focus on guest acquisition—the part that's hardest for individual hosts and PMSs to scale—while you continue managing operations.

This is a partnership, not a competition. We bring guests; you manage operations. Both businesses grow.

Interested in partnering? Let's talk.