Solutions | Short-Term Rentals

Connect Your PMS Directly With Smart Locks & Thermostats

Seam offers a unified, easy-to-use API that lets your STR app integrate any smart locks, thermostats, and sensors to provide features such as automated guest checkin or energy saving in between reservation.

Powering IoT Integrations For

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Overview

Seam provides a white-labeled API solution enabling any app to instantly integrate devices from dozens of brands

Integrate dozens of locks, thermostats, and sensors brands inside your short-term rental app in just a few days. Create unique and unified guest experience that increases retention.

One API to connect anything
Icons of user creation, credentials creation and access configuration as well as an image of a smart lock and an app showing how Seam helps you create features to manage resident access

Create Temporary Codes

With Seam, you will be able to instantly integrate any smart lock into your app and start issuing codes automatically with every booking coming in.

Photo of a Nest thermostat to illustrate how Seam allows you to control thermostats from your app

Set Temperature & Save Energy

Offer delightful guest experiences by setting up ideal conditions before check-in and save energy and money with automated climate schedule adjustements to avoid useless consumption.

Photo of a computer showing how Seam helps you unify smart device management

Manage Devices Remotely

Integrate hundreds of devices into management dashboards to simplify operations and get an oversight of device fleets across large portfolios for property managers.

Problem

Building IoT device integrations is expensive...

Each listing comes with its own set of hardware devices, costing you years in engineering bandwidth to integrate and launch.

Develop:

$100K

Maintain:

$10K/yr

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$75K

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$8K/yr

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$125K

Maintain:

$7.5K/yr

Develop:

$100K

Maintain:

$10K/yr

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$90K

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$5K/yr

Develop:

$85K

Maintain:

$10K/yr

Solution

Seam provides a single API to let you communicate with thousands of IoT devices

Seam provides a single API integration to integrate all devices and systems at once. Stop spending months trying to get manufacturer access, setting up test devices, and repeating an endless process for every brand. Focus on your customer's experience, and let Seam handle the rest.

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Ultra-fast implementation

Save years of engineering time by integrating Seam in just days.

Seam is built by software developers and provides easy-to-use SDKs that make integrating Seam into your product a breeze. Seam's API unifies a fragmented ecosystem of devices into a simple set of commands that make controlling any device a breeze.

Install Seam SDK for Your Language

Seam provides client libraries in your preferred programming language to provide the best possible developer experience.

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Issue Standardized API Commands

Use Seam's unified API to build custom workflows that control devices—without concern for specific brand differences.

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Embed UI components

Seam's library of pre-built UI Components lets you accelerate development time to ship incredible UIs to operate and manage devices.

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Smart Locks

Design the most advanced check-in experience for both guests and property managers

Seam provides one API to integrate any smart lock right into your app to create incredible guest experiences and streamline operations for property managers.

Access codes

Seam's API lets you easily generate access codes for any kind of smartlock, allowing guests to complete check-in in a fully automated way.

Example of guest app using Seam
receive real-time status updates on your devices

Real-Time Status

Get information on each device and in real-time to get better fleet visibility.

receive real-time status updates on your devices

Any Door, One API

Grant access for thousands of listings with a single SDK that works across different systems

All Major Brands, One API

Stop chasing down each manufacturer and their API docs. Use Seam and instantly get access to all major brands of smart locks

Thermostats

Keep guests comfortable and automate energy savings in between reservations

Seam provides one API to integrate any thermostats. Automatically turn HVAC systems on and off based on check-in and check-out times of guest.

Automatic Energy Savings

Seam's API will allow you to define predefined schedules to save energy while listings are empty.

example of resident app using Seam
receive real-time status updates on your devices

Expose Control

Allow guests to control temperature and other climate settings right inside your guest app

receive real-time status updates on your devices

Real-Time Status

Get information on each device and in real-time to monitor important changes.

All Major Brands, One API

Stop chasing down each manufacturer and their API docs. Use Seam and instantly get access to all major brands of thermostats

Case Studies

How Guesty grants access to millions of guests using Seam

Guesty is a property management software that helps property managers manage hundreds of thousands of listings globally. Guesty uses Seam to seamlessly integrate smart locks and thermostats into their platform to provide a seamless guest experience and operate operations for hosts.

Challenge

Guest access can be one of the most challenging and operationally intensive part of managing a portfolio of short-term rental listings. A single guest unable to enter a listing can lead to bad reviews for hosts. Naturally, property managers are looking for ways to automate guest access to avoid these issues. Guesty often heard from its host customers about the need for integrating access automation into their PMS platform. However, as Guesty's customer base grew to span multiple continents, the complexity and sheer number of smart lock brands to integrate was beyond their product team's ability to handle.

Solution

In early 2023, Guesty decided to partner with Seam to provide their Guesty Lock Manager module as part of Guesty's core PMS offering. Thanks to Seam's unified API and white-labeled solution, Guesty was able to ship a best-in-class access automation management dashboard in just a few weeks. Since then, Guesty has generated millions in additional revenue by charging hosts for access automation services, and facilate access for millions of guests since.

Seam Products Used

Smart Lock API

Thermostat API

How Guesty uses Seam
Get Started

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