Score a booking request before you approve it
Nine quick questions about the booking. A transparent risk score, the exact patterns behind it, and the checks to run before you say yes. No guest names, ever.
This tool scores booking behaviour patterns. It is not a background check, and it does not judge any person. Never decline a guest based on race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, gender, family status, disability, or any other protected characteristic. Always follow your platform's non-discrimination policy and your local law.
What it does
Reads the booking, not the guest
Nine behavioural facts: timing, account age, reviews, group size. Nothing about who the guest is.
What it builds
A transparent risk score
Every triggered pattern is shown with its points and the reason it matters. No black box.
Why use it
Know what to verify first
Each pattern comes with the concrete pre-approval action, down to the message worth sending.
Step 1 of 3 · The booking
Counted from the moment the request came in to the check-in date.
Why screening happens before approval, or not at all
Every damage story starts with an approved booking. By the time a party is running or a group has packed twelve people into a six-person flat, your options have collapsed to damage control: documentation, claims, deadlines. The only moment you hold all the leverage is before you tap approve.
Most hosts screen by gut feel. The problem is that gut feel reads the wrong things: the profile photo, the name, the writing style. Those signals are unreliable and discriminatory. The signals that actually correlate with incidents are boring, behavioural facts: a guest who lives ten minutes from the listing, a same-day booking for Saturday night, a group that exactly fills the house, a brand-new account that has never been reviewed and skipped the conversation entirely.
Paid screening services check some of this automatically, but they start at real money per month, and independent hosts and VAs rarely have them. The result is that the people approving most of the world's short-term-rental bookings do it with no structure at all.
This screener gives the decision a structure. It asks only about the booking, adds up the known patterns in the open, and turns the result into specific checks: what to ask, what to verify, when to involve the owner. Most bookings come back low risk, and you approve them with a clear head. The few that stack up patterns get five minutes of attention they genuinely deserve.
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How this tool works
How the Guest Risk Pre-Screener works, and how to use it
The full guide: where each pattern comes from, how the points add up, what the score does and does not mean, and the steps to take before and after you screen a booking.