Your channel manager runs the bookings, the calendar and the pricing. StayGuard does the other half: the licence and registration rules wherever your property sits, the safety certificates every let must carry, a tracker that keeps them all in date, and a guest-facing Trust Mark that shows you're licensed and safety-checked. Built for hosts and small management agencies keeping up with rules that change nation by nation.
Short-term letting has gone from lightly-regulated to a patchwork of licensing, registration and planning rules that differ across Scotland, Wales, England and London — and the safety obligations on a let are no lighter than on a long-term tenancy. It's confusing precisely because it's new and uneven, and the penalties for getting it wrong are real.
In Scotland you legally need a short-term-let licence now. In Wales a statutory registration scheme is being introduced. In England a national STL register and a new C5 short-term-let planning use-class are coming. And in London the 90-night cap on entire-home letting applies. Same activity, four different rulebooks.
A fire risk assessment, gas safety (CP12), an electrical installation condition report (EICR), an EPC, and working smoke and carbon-monoxide alarms. These aren't optional extras — they're the baseline safety evidence a licence application and a duty of care to guests both rest on.
Every certificate and licence expires on its own date, and one lapse can void cover or breach a licence condition. Meanwhile guests increasingly choose lets they can see are safe and above board — so staying compliant is also a booking advantage.
The same platform that scans, generates and trains across the Friam family — set up for the short-let licensing, the safety certificates, and the guest-trust signal your channel manager doesn't own.
Tell us where your property is and we map exactly which rules apply — Scotland's STL licence, Wales registration, England's coming national register and C5 use-class, or London's 90-night cap — with a plain-English readiness checklist so you know what you need before an inspector or a platform asks.
A guided home for the certificates every let carries — fire risk assessment, gas safety (CP12), electrical (EICR), EPC, and smoke/CO alarm checks — so the full safety picture for each property lives in one place, ready to show.
Every certificate and licence expires on a different date. The tracker keeps them all in view and reminds you well before each one lapses — so you never discover an out-of-date EICR or an expired licence the hard way.
A public verification page and embeddable badge guests can click — showing your property is licensed or registered where required and that its safety certificates are current. The reassurance careful guests look for, that a listing alone can't prove.
A short, quiz-checked host-safety pathway — fire safety, gas and electrical awareness, alarms and guest safety basics — with a certificate, so you (and any cleaner or co-host) can show you've covered the essentials.
We check your listing or property website for the disclosures guests and authorities increasingly expect — licence/registration number shown, safety information available — and flag the gaps before they cost you a booking or a licence.
StayGuard is deliberately not a channel manager or property-management system — the tools that run your bookings, calendars and pricing across Airbnb and the OTAs own the daily operation, and we don't compete with them. We sit alongside whatever you use, as the licensing-and-safety-evidence layer plus the guest-facing trust signal those tools don't provide. Built for Airbnb and short-let hosts and the small STL management agencies that carry the full weight of a four-nation rulebook without a compliance team.
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StayGuard provides compliance tools and content; it is not a licensing authority and does not provide legal advice. Guest safety and short-let licensing are real legal duties: the licensing checklists, certificate tracking and training are designed to support and evidence your compliance with the short-let rules in your nation and your safety obligations — they support, but do not replace, the host's own legal responsibility for the property and the safety of guests.