The stay your public can look up, and the file your staff can take to a hearing
Hosts apply on your site. Clerks, planners, finance, and code enforcement work that same property. A resident who wants to know if a house is legal looks it up instead of calling.
What it is
STAyTUTE is STR permitting software for local government. Every application ties to an assessor parcel. Licenses, renewals, inspections, problems filed on the property, and cases stay on that file. The public directory shows stays you have actually licensed.
Who it is for
Cities, counties, and agencies in the US and Canada that license short-term rentals — clerks, planners, finance, and code enforcement working the same property file. It is not a booking marketplace, a host-side property-management system, or a listing-identification network. Staff import listing files today; automated matching will arrive through a named partner feed rather than a crawler we operate.
What we will stand behind
Data lives in your community's system, so an export or an audit does not wait on a vendor extract. The planning worksheet is arithmetic on figures you enter, labeled and sourced — not a recovery total we would defend in a bake-off. The comparison says plainly where a listing monitor is the better buy. The listings inbox, lodging-tax checkout, and a city we can name are on the roadmap.
What your office can run today
| Area | Status | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Public directory and apply | StatusAvailable now | Why it mattersResidents check an address themselves instead of calling the counter. Hosts apply, upload, and sign online. Staff review that same submission, so nothing gets re-keyed. |
| Parcels and zoning | StatusAvailable now | Why it mattersEvery application arrives on a parcel from your assessor roll, measured against the zoning your staff configured — so the first review is the decisive one. |
| Listing import and matching | StatusAvailable nowMore coming | Why it mattersImport a listing file today and keep a snapshot history, so staff can show council how the market moved. Automated matching will come from a named partner feed; we do not run a booking-site crawler. |
| Licenses, renewals, inspections | StatusAvailable now | Why it mattersRenewals start from your license inventory and reminder notices go out on schedule, so fee revenue arrives without a manual chase. A pass or fail records on the same license. |
| Tax filings and flags | StatusAvailable nowMore coming | Why it mattersFinance answers a remittance question from the license itself — filings and night-cap flags are already on the file. Card checkout for lodging tax is still on the roadmap. |
| Enforcement cases | StatusAvailable now | Why it mattersOpen a case from a complaint, a license, a property, an owner, or an operator. Letters, photos, PDFs, and video stay on the file, so the history is there if it reaches a hearing. People link by party ID rather than email, so one owner with three properties stays one file. |
| Activity map | StatusAvailable now | Why it mattersOne map answers what is happening on a block: licenses, complaints, cases, and imported listings, filtered by status. |
| Problems filed on the property | StatusAvailable now | Why it mattersA resident files a problem with an optional photo and location, and it lands on that property instead of a voicemail — so staff have context before the first call back. |
See it running on your ordinance
Send us the text and the step that costs your office the most time. We configure apply, review, license, directory, and the case file against your rules, then walk your team down that path — not a sample city with invented addresses.