A roadmap with an order instead of dates
Dates on a vendor roadmap are a negotiating position, so there are none here. Today a resident can look up a licensed stay, staff can open a case on that same file, and a listing file can land on a parcel instead of a shared drive. The listings inbox, lodging-tax checkout, and a city we are allowed to name come next, in that order, because each one is worth more once the license is what everything else refers back to.
Next
What staff ask for once the file exists
Import, issued licenses, and City Hall fee checkout are live. These four are what staff reach for next: less triage, fewer trips out to another system, and a renewal that reads like the ordinance. STAyTUTE stays the license file everything else refers back to — not a second office beside it.
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Staff listings inbox
Now: Import listing files and keep a snapshot history. Staff can match a URL to a parcel and see unmatched rows.
Next: A dedicated inbox with match confidence, an unmatched queue, and change events on the permit. Triage that takes minutes instead of a reconciliation project.
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Lodging-tax checkout
Now: Filings and night-cap flags sit on the same permit. Application fees go through City Hall checkout (no card).
Next: Card or ACH for renewal, reinspection, and lodging tax when finance asks, with the receipt on the record.
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Renewal attestations
Now: You can keep a license inventory, start renewals, and send reminder notices.
Next: Attestations that match your ordinance — substantial compliance, complaint resolution, tax remittance — so a renewal reads like the rulebook instead of the application wizard run a second time.
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Decision letters
Now: The issued permit is an official HTML and PDF document stored on approve.
Next: The same official treatment for decision letters on the case and application file.
Then
What comes up after the first case
None of these replace the issued license as the file staff open. They answer the questions a clerk brings back after working the directory, the apply flow, and a case that went the distance.
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Inspection records
Now: A simple pass or fail on the license.
Next: Due dates, artifacts on the file, and a reinspection fee, so an inspection carries the same weight in the record as the rest of the city's process. A field tablet app comes later, if at all.
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Zoning and density on the staff map
Now: Each application ties to an assessor parcel. Staff set zoning rules. The public directory map shows licensed stays.
Next: A staff overlay of caps and density on your ordinance — not on a national list of discovered ads. Suspected unlicensed pins stay off the public map unless you write that policy.
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Enforcement ladder on the permit
Now: Open a case from a complaint, permit, property, owner, or operator. Keep letters plus images, PDFs, and video on the file.
Next: A visible warning → fine → suspend path tied to that permit, with letterhead PDFs staff can stand behind in a hearing.
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Automated listing scrape and match
Now: File import and snapshots. Voluntary booking URLs on the application.
Next: A named partner or licensed feed into the same listing store — URL, parcel match, unmatched queue, change events. The 70+ and 10,000+ figures stay on the homepages that can back them until a community is running that feed here. No in-house Airbnb or Vrbo crawler.
When a community says we may name them
The page we cannot write yet
Planning, finance, clerk, and enforcement hubs are live. A page that names a city, and a quote from the person who runs that program, are not — those belong to a government that has agreed to be named. Boston and Toronto in the worksheet are other cities' studies, and they stay labeled that way.
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One allowed community page
Now: staytute.com describes the product. It does not invent a customer.
Next: A public page for a government that lets us name them — likely a live directory URL, not a recovery-dollar case study. Later, optional pattern pages for a coastal town, a county STR office, or a Canadian municipality that describe the model without inventing a customer.
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A named walkthrough and quote
Now: Product screenshots are from a real public directory, not benefit-card art.
Next: One walkthrough against that city's ordinance, and a quote once they have been through a public meeting or a go-live. Local or trade press can follow. We will not present STAyTUTE ROI, or the Boston and Toronto figures, as our results.
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Directories clerks already use
Now: Compare, FAQ, glossary, and llms.txt are on this site for anyone who finds it.
Next: Listings on procurement and association pages — G2 or equivalent only with a real company profile, never incentivized reviews — after the site is indexed and we have at least one independent mention. Press and backlinks come from pages people already trust, not from bought links.
Later
If the office outgrows this list
STAyTUTE is a focused STR office and intends to stay one. These items extend that office when a community asks for them. None of them is a plan to become a civic ERP.
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After-hours voice that files into the permit
Now: A resident can file a problem on the web at any hour. Listing 24/7 issue phones stay on the directory. City Hall phone is business hours.
Next: A city answering service or IVR that writes into the permit or complaint record. We will not claim a STAyTUTE-operated 24/7 hotline.
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Public-records export package
Now: Export comes from your community's database. Redaction follows the rules you set.
Next: A packaged PRA / FOIA export staff can run without a vendor extract they cannot audit.
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Field inspection app
Now: Staff review on the web, including a simple inspection pass or fail.
Next: A mobile field workflow only after inspection records (due dates and artifacts) exist. No offline tablet promise until then.
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Civic-suite interfaces
Now: Data lives on your community's deployment. We do not replace Accela or AMANDA as a land-use ERP.
Next: Optional export or later finance/GIS interfaces if you already standardized on a suite and still want STAyTUTE as the lodging license file.
The controls are not on this list
That is deliberate — encrypted sessions, staff roles, lockout, optional passkeys, and a staff action history are already in the product. SOC 2 Type I, then Type II, get named here when the reports exist. Until then the controls are the claim and there is no badge to hang. Trust and controls.
Claims you will not find on this site
Granicus can put 70+ on its homepage. Accela can put Denver on its. Here is what we are not saying, written down, so none of it has to surface halfway through an implementation.
Live coverage of 70+ or 10,000+ booking sites
File import is here. An automated scrape is not. Those counts belong to the vendors who can back them, and they stay there until a named partner feed is running on your deployment.
Boston or Toronto as STAyTUTE customers
The worksheet cites both as labeled examples from published studies. They are not deployments, and they will not quietly turn into case studies.
A SOC 2 badge
The path is public. The report is not. Type I and Type II get named when they exist, and not a slide sooner.
A STAyTUTE-operated 24/7 complaint hotline
Residents can file a problem on the web at any hour. That is not a staffed call center, and we will not describe it as one.
A 20x ROI or guaranteed recovery total
The worksheet is arithmetic on numbers you type in. Change an assumption and the answer changes, which is rather the point. It is not a figure we would defend in a bake-off.
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.