Should I password-protect my guidebook?

If it contains your Wi-Fi password or door codes — yes, and you should. Gate the page behind a password and share it only with booked guests. Your local recommendations can stay public; secrets stay secret.

Airbnb digital guidebook

Stop Answering “What’s the Wi-Fi?”

Turn your house manual into a digital guidebook guests scan at the door — Wi-Fi, check-in, house rules, and local tips on one QR code. Free to host, updated in seconds.

Drag & drop house-manual pdf, photos, or html page here

or use an

Or publish directly from your favorite AI tools

Claude

ChatGPT

Cursor

Grok

Gemini

The result

One scan. Every answer.

A printed QR sign by the door opens a fast page with everything guests ask about — before they think to ask.

Cedar Hollow Cabin

Scan for the guest guide

cedarhollow.drops.sh

Cedar Hollow Cabin

Welcome, guests 👋

Wi-Fi

Network: CedarHollow_Guest

Password: pines4life!

Smart-lock code & check-out

Trash & recycling day

Thermostat & hot tub

House rules & quiet hours

Coffee, tacos & trailheads

Scan. Solved. Sleeping.

Works with the stock camera app — nothing for guests to install or sign up for.

Why hosts do this

The guest manual that finally gets read

Paper binders live in a drawer. PDFs live in an email nobody can find at check-in. A link and a QR code live exactly where guests already are — on their phones.

The Wi-Fi password lives in one place

Not in three messages, a fridge magnet, and a PDF from 2021. Guests scan, connect, stream. You stop screenshotting the password at 11pm.

Questions get answered before they are asked

Check-out time, trash night, thermostat quirks, the tricky third lock — a digital guidebook covers them all, so the messages never send.

Update once, every guest sees it

New coffee machine? Changed the door code? Edit the page and every future guest gets the current version. No reprinting signs, no re-sending PDFs.

Free to run, forever

Guidebook apps charge per property, per month. This costs you nothing to keep — one page per rental, hosted free on drops.sh.

Private by default

Wi-Fi codes and door codes are for your guests, not Google. Password-protect the page so only people with the code can open it.

"What's the Wi-Fi?"

The most-sent message in vacation rental history. A guest guidebook is how you retire it.

What goes in

Everything guests message you about, on one page

Steal this structure. If a question has ever landed in your inbox, it belongs here.

The essentials

Wi-Fi network & password, written exactly as typed
Smart-lock or key-box code, plus what to do if it fails
Check-in and check-out times
Parking spot, gate code, and where NOT to park

The house

How the thermostat, TV, and coffee machine behave
Which switch runs what
Trash & recycling days, and where bins live
Hot tub, grill, or fireplace instructions

The rules, kindly

Quiet hours and party policy
Pets, smoking, and guests-visiting policy
What not to flush (the eternal classic)
Anything that could cost you a security deposit

The local cheat sheet

Your 5 favorite coffee spots and taco trucks
Grocery store and nearest urgent care
Beach, trail, and playground picks
Food that delivers, and how late

Drops vs guidebook apps vs the paper binder

Guidebook platforms charge per property, per month. The binder in the drawer answers nobody at 9pm. A hosted page does both jobs for free.

Feature	FreeGuidebook on Drops	Guidebook appper property, per month	Printed binderreprint per change
Guests scan a QR or tap a link
Update without reprinting
No app or login for guests		varies
Password-protect the Wi-Fi page		varies
Cost per extra property	Free	Another subscription	Another binder
Setup time	~30 minutes	An hour + learning the tool	A weekend

Everything included

Built for busy hosts

The features a rental guidebook actually needs — none of the per-property per-month subscription stuff.

Auto-generated QR code

Every guidebook gets a scannable QR you can download and print — fridge sign, welcome binder cover, key-box card, done in one evening.

Live updates, zero reprints

Changed the door code after a guest locked themselves out at midnight? Edit the page. The printed QR never changes; the info behind it does.

Password protection built in

Wi-Fi and door codes should not be public. Gate the whole guidebook behind a password and share it only with booked guests.

Your domain or a clean subdomain

Use yourcabin.drops.sh for free, or connect guide.yourrental.com later. Either way it loads instantly, anywhere in the world.

See when guests check in (to the guide)

View tracking shows when a guest opened the guidebook — handy reassurance at 9pm on arrival day, before they message you at 10.

Files guests actually need

Attach the appliance PDF, the pool timetable, the parking permit. Everything lives behind one link instead of scattered emails.

How it works

From welcome binder to QR code in one evening

Set it up once. Every future check-in runs itself.

Drop in what you have

Type your house info into a simple page, or upload the welcome-book PDF you already made. Both work at app.drops.sh.

Publish your guest guide

Go live on yourcabin.drops.sh with free SSL in about a minute. Add a password if the page contains codes.

Print the QR code

Download the auto-generated QR and stick it on the fridge, the welcome card, and inside the key box.

Update it between stays

New router, new cleaner, new house rules? Edit the page in seconds — every future guest sees the latest version.

Publish with your agent

Your favorite AI agent can publish to Drops

Drops speaks MCP — the standard way AI agents connect to tools. Connect Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Grok or Gemini once, and any of them can build pages and publish them to your drops.sh site for you.

Claude

ChatGPT

Cursor

Grok

Gemini

Drops

One key connects them all · you.drops.sh

1.Create an API key

Sign in at app.drops.sh/account and create a key. Think of it as a password just for your agent — you can revoke it anytime.

2.Connect your agent

In your agent’s settings, add Drops as a tool and paste your key. One-time setup, about a minute — we show you exactly what to copy.

3.Ask it to publish

'Build my cabin’s guest guidebook with Wi-Fi, check-in and house rules, deploy it to drops, and update the door code when I text it to you.' Your agent builds the page, uploads it, and hands you a live link. No dashboard needed.

Try asking your agent

“Build my cabin’s guest guidebook with Wi-Fi, check-in and house rules, deploy it to drops, and update the door code when I text it to you.”

Show the one-time setup snippet

Paste this into your agent’s MCP settings (Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and most tools), replacing the key with yours:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "drops": {
      "url": "https://api.drops.sh/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer drops_live_YOUR_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Endpoint: https://api.drops.sh/mcp

FAQ

Host questions, answered

What Airbnb, Vrbo, and cabin hosts ask before publishing their first digital guidebook.

A digital guidebook is a mobile-friendly page that replaces the paper house manual: Wi-Fi password, check-in steps, appliance instructions, house rules, and local recommendations — all behind one link or QR code your guests scan when they arrive.

Write down everything guests message you about — Wi-Fi, door codes, checkout, trash days, thermostat quirks — and put it on one page. With Drops, you drop that info in, publish to yourcabin.drops.sh, and print the auto-generated QR code for the fridge. Takes one evening, not a template purchase.

Dedicated guidebook platforms typically charge per property, per month — which stings when you manage two or three listings. On Drops, each guidebook is a simple hosted page: free to publish on your subdomain with free SSL. Paid plans only add custom domains and analytics history.

Yes — that is the point. Guests scan the QR code with their phone camera or tap your link, and the guidebook opens instantly in the browser. No app, no account, no PDF attachment hunting through email at check-in.

If it contains your Wi-Fi password or door codes — yes, and you should. Gate the page behind password protection and share it only with booked guests. Your local recommendations can stay public; secrets stay secret.

That is the superpower. The printed QR always points to your page — change the router, swap the cleaner’s day, update the house rules, and every future guest sees the new version instantly. No reprinting, no re-sending.

Yes. The guidebook is your own page, independent of any platform. Paste the link in every booking platform’s guest messenger, add it to your check-in email, and print the QR for the property — one source of truth for every channel.

Yes. Attach the dishwasher manual, the pool timetable, or the parking permit to the page, or link to them separately with our PDF hosting.

Your guidebook is one drop away

Publish it tonight, print the QR tomorrow, and take “what’s the Wi-Fi?” off your phone forever.

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