If you let out two or more places, you're managing cleaners and caretakers across all of them from separate chats. Homebird puts every property on one WhatsApp line that labels itself — so you always know which house a message is about, and who turned up where today.
Your cleaners keep using WhatsApp exactly as they do now. Nothing to install, for you or for them.
To be clear about scope: Homebird manages the people who look after your properties — who works where, who turned up, their hours, leave and payslips. It doesn't touch your bookings, pricing or guest messages, and it isn't a channel manager. If your problem is staff coordination, it's built for you. If it's calendars, it isn't — yet.
What you do now
Kloof Cottage cleaning
Thandi: I'm here
Beach House crew
Nomsa: geyser is leaking
Sea Point flat
Sipho: finished 2pm
It works — until you're in another timezone trying to remember which group the geyser was in, and whether anyone turned up at the third place today.
With Homebird
[Kloof Cottage] Thandi: I'm here
[Beach House] Nomsa: geyser is leaking
[Sea Point flat] Sipho: finished 2pm
Same WhatsApp, same people, no app for your cleaners to install. Every message arrives tagged with the property it came from, and who's in answers for all of them at once.
Ask who's in and you get today's roll call for every property at once — including the one where nobody has arrived yet, which is usually the one you needed to know about.
It works the same from the next room or the next continent.
Today 🧡
Kloof Cottage
Thandi: present
Beach House
Nomsa: present
Sipho: no record yet today
All of it happens in a WhatsApp chat. Your staff never install anything.
No download, no password. Tell us your name and what you call your first property — about two minutes.
One at a time, right there in the chat. Say add place whenever you take on another.
A separate invite link per property, so whoever taps it lands at the right one. They just say arrived when they get there.
Hours, leave and payslips come with it, worked out from the days already recorded — so payday is a thing you check rather than a thing you build.
Add as many places as you run — a rental, your own home, a second site. Each one gets its own name in chat, so nothing gets mixed up.
Assign each cleaner or caretaker to the properties they cover. Someone who does two? Tick both, and pick which one is their usual.
Message one property, one person, or everyone. Your staff never see each other's messages — only what was meant for them.
When someone says arrived, it goes straight onto their timesheet with the time and the property. No forms, no chasing.
Monthly, hourly or per shift — worked out from the hours already recorded, with UIF and deductions itemised.
Every message and clock-in is kept and timestamped, so a disagreement about who was where is a question you can actually answer.
Set it up on the place that gives you the most trouble. Add the others when it's earned them — it's free while we're in beta, and there's nothing to uninstall if it isn't for you.