For short-stay hosts
Warm on check-in, asleep between guests.
WattDodger reads your booking calendar, brings the listing and its hot water up to temperature before every arrival, and lets it hibernate the moment the place is empty — doing the heating whenever power is cheapest and cleanest.
The problem
Every empty night you heat is money you never see again.
An empty listing, heated anyway
Leave the heat pump on between guests and you pay to keep nobody warm. Turn it off and the next arrival walks into a cold house.
A cold arrival is a bad review
"Freezing when we got there." "No hot water." Reviews remember the first hour of a stay far more clearly than the last.
The calendar keeps moving
Bookings shift, cancel and stack up. Chasing that with a manual thermostat schedule — remotely, across several listings — is a chore nobody wins at.
The answer
Your calendar drives the heating.
Connect your booking calendar and WattDodger does the rest. It works backwards from each check-in — how cold the house is, how fast it heats, what power costs tonight — and starts early enough, on the cheapest power available, to have the place warm and the cylinder full when your guest opens the door.
Between bookings it drops the house to a frost-guard setpoint and stops spending money on an empty building.
- Connect your Airbnb calendar over iCal — the same feed you already share with your other tools.
- Warm for arrival, every time, including the hot water, without you touching anything.
- Never heat an empty house again. Gaps between guests become genuine savings.
- Manage several listings from one dashboard, each learning its own thermal behaviour.
- Cheapest, cleanest power. Night rate and rooftop solar do the work; the peak hours do not.
- A visible mark of quality. Certified listings get a plaque and a guest page explaining it.
WattDodger
Certified
WattDodger Certified
Give guests a reason to pick your listing.
A certified listing carries a plaque with a QR code. Guests scan it and land on a page about your property — why it was already warm when they arrived, what it costs to run, and how much carbon its heating avoids. It answers the thermostat question before anyone asks it.
Early access
Connect your calendar.
We're onboarding short-stay hosts in New Zealand now. Tell us about your listings and we'll be in touch as places open up.
Prefer email? lee.mauger@kiwicollaborative.com