For owners and property managers · free
The guest guide your rental hands out
Fill in your rental and your house manual, print it, set it out. Guests scan it and get your arrival steps, Wi-Fi and house rules on top of the island’s guide — today’s tide, the beach, places to eat, the rules and who to call. No app to download.
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Free for any owner or manager on Kiawah, Seabrook, Johns Island and Wadmalaw — no sign-up, no account. The card carries a QR code to the island guide and, if you add your Wi-Fi, a second code that joins the network in one tap.
Why owners and managers use it
- Free
No sign-up, no account, no fee — print as many as you like, for as many rentals as you have.
- No app
Guests scan the code and the guide opens in their phone's browser. Nothing to download.
- Works offline
After one visit it opens without a signal, and it adds to the home screen like an app.
- Live island data
Today's tide, sunrise and sunset, the weather and alerts, the water and the dolphin windows — from NOAA and the National Weather Service.
- Sourced rules
Every island rule names the official page it comes from, with the date we last checked it.
- Prints 5 ways
A 4 × 6 card (or a letter page), a fridge card, door hangers, round QR stickers and a welcome book.
- Nothing stored
What you type stays in your browser and the printed link. We never see it, so we can't lose it or share it.
Your card
Make it in a minute
Private by design: nothing you type here is sent to our server or stored on it. The card is drawn in your browser, your details ride in the guest link after the “#” — the part browsers never send to any server — and the Wi-Fi password goes into that link only if you tick the box.
Live preview · 4 × 6 in card
Welcome to
Your rental
Scan for your Kiawah Island guide
Today’s tide and sunset, the beach, places to eat, things to do with kids, the island rules and who to call
How it works
Three steps, then it runs itself
- Fill it in
Your rental’s name and island, and if you like your name and number, check-out, Wi-Fi, a short house manual and up to five local favorites.
- Print it
A 4 × 6 card or a letter page for the counter, a fridge card, door hangers, round stickers for the remote or the welcome binder — or the whole welcome book. For the guest book, add our printable phone list of every business on the excursions page.
- Guests scan it
The guide opens with your rental’s name, your Call and Text buttons and your house manual on top, then today on the island. After one visit it works offline.
What your guests get
Four island guides
Each one: your house manual first, then today’s tide, weather and sunset live, getting on the beach, places to eat and rent, things to do with kids, the rules a renter must know and who to call — every line with its official source.
Questions owners ask
Before you print
Is it really free?
Yes. No sign-up, no account and nothing to install, and there’s no limit on cards or rentals.
Do you see or keep what I type?
No. The card is drawn in your browser, and your details ride in the guest link after the “#” — the part of a web address browsers never send to a server. There’s no copy on our side. A guest’s phone keeps the details it scanned until they tap “Forget this stay”.
Should I put my door or lockbox code in the house manual?
We’d leave codes out. The link is printed on paper in the house and stays on guests’ phones after they leave. Point to where they get it instead, like “Your door code is in your booking message.”
I changed the Wi-Fi password or a house rule. Now what?
Make the card again and reprint it. The details live in the printed link, so an old card keeps opening the old ones; a guest who scans the new card gets the new ones.
Why does the link-size meter matter?
Every word of the house manual goes into the QR code, and a longer code has smaller squares. The meter grades how the code will scan on the smallest print (the round sticker) and names the longest sections to trim. The letter page, door hanger and welcome book print the code bigger.
Is it OK with Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com?
It’s built to what their own policy pages say: a local guide with no booking pitch, nothing collected from guests, and “Book again” on the same platform. Your website and a returning-guest text button only appear on rentals that aren’t on Airbnb or Booking.com. What the card does and doesn’t, with the platforms’ pages.
Where does the island information come from?
Each rule and number names its official page — the Towns of Kiawah Island and Seabrook Island, KICA, SIPOA, Charleston County Parks, SCDNR, NOAA and the National Weather Service among them — and the guide shows the date we last checked it. Places come from our island directory, listed A to Z and never ranked.
Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com
What the card does — and doesn’t
- It’s a local guide with no booking pitch. No “book direct” offers, discount codes or review requests, and it collects nothing from guests — no email, no phone number, nothing between them and the Wi-Fi.
- Guests save it themselves — to the home screen, through their phone’s share sheet, or by sending the link to themselves from their own phone.
- “Book again” opens your listing on the same platform. Tell the card maker where the rental is listed and paste the listing link.
- Your own website and an “ask about returning” text button appear only off Airbnb and Booking.com. On a rental listed on either one (or if you don’t say), they’re left off the card and guide. On a Vrbo-only rental they stay folded away until the guest opens them; on a direct-only rental they show.
- Keep the card and its code out of your listing photos. Airbnb’s content policy covers what’s pictured in a listing, Vrbo’s bars QR codes and links, and Booking.com’s bars promotional contact details.
From the platforms’ own pages, read October 13, 2026: Airbnb, Off-Platform and Fee Transparency Policy · Airbnb, Terms of Service · Airbnb, Content Policy · Vrbo, Host Terms of Service (effective October 29, 2026) · Vrbo, Content Guidelines · Booking.com, General Delivery Terms · Booking.com, content guidelines. Not legal advice — your own agreement with each platform governs. Airbnb hasn’t said in writing whether a printed guide like this counts as an optional concierge tool it allows; if you want that settled, ask Airbnb host support and keep the answer.
Photo: chucka_nc, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized)
Two ways in
Talk it through with Mike, or ask Val — the guide’s AI assistant, answering from this site’s sourced facts.