What's Next for Airflow: The Road Ahead

Building in public

We believe that if you're trusting a platform with your business data, you deserve to know where that platform is going. Not vague promises about "exciting things ahead" — actual specifics about what we're building, why we've prioritised it that way, and what's still months out.

This is our current roadmap. Some of it is weeks away. Some of it is further out. We'll be honest about which is which.

What's live right now

Before we look ahead, here's what's already shipped and working in production:

Automated booking extraction. Our AI reads booking confirmation emails and turns them into structured data — guest details, dates, amounts, fees, taxes — reliably and consistently. Forward an email, get a booking record. It works with Airbnb confirmations and direct booking emails. (This is separate from AI Flow, the in-portal assistant — more on that below.)

4-view calendar. Day, week, month, and year views across all your resources. Multi-resource visibility so you see your entire operation at a glance.

Multi-vertical support. Airflow is built for short-term property rentals — villas, lodges, guesthouses, boutique hotels, safari camps — with the flexibility to manage add-on services like restaurants, spas, and activities within your property operation.

Multi-currency. All values stored in USD internally, displayed in your local currency. Xero invoices created in your accounting currency with the exchange rate recorded. No manual conversion, no rounding errors.

Automated accounting. Booking to draft invoice in Xero, automatically. Correct line items, tax treatment, contacts. The pipeline that saves 20 minutes per booking.

Action system. Pay for what you use. Actions consumed per booking processed, with plan tiers that scale from a single property to a portfolio. No per-property pricing traps.

Team management. Invite team members, assign roles (Owner, Manager, Staff), manage permissions. Multi-org support so one person can operate multiple businesses from a single account.

Full security audit. Rate limiting, input validation, RLS policies on every table, session management, CSRF protection, magic link authentication. We've been through a comprehensive security review and addressed every finding.

Billing pipeline. End-to-end Stripe integration with subscription management, customer portal access, webhook processing, and action allocation. Production-ready payment infrastructure.

That's the foundation. Here's what we're building on top of it.

Coming soon

These were the high-priority items in active development when this post was written. Update: all of them have since shipped — notes inline below.

Direct Booking Sites (STAY) — now live

This was the biggest thing we were working on, and it shipped.

STAY is a guest-facing booking portal hosted at airflowstay.com. You manage it from your Airflow portal — add your properties, set availability, configure pricing — and your guests book directly through a clean, fast booking page.

Why this matters: every booking through Airbnb or other OTAs costs you 15-20% in commissions. A direct booking channel means you keep that margin. STAY uses Stripe Connect for payments, so funds go directly to your account with a 6% commission instead of a 15% OTA commission.

Custom domains are live too. Your brand, your booking site, your customer relationship.

Overages system

This one has since shipped. Rather than pausing booking processing when you run out of actions, the overages system now automatically bills for additional actions at your plan's rate when you run low, so you never miss a booking because of a billing gap.

This is revenue-critical infrastructure. A missed booking is worse than an unexpected charge.

Invitation emails — shipped

Team invitations now send a magic-link email automatically. When you invite someone to your organisation, they get an email that takes them straight to login — exactly as it should be.

Real Stripe Price IDs — shipped

The billing pipeline now runs on production Stripe with verified price IDs and live API keys. Real payments, processed at scale.

Google Calendar two-way sync — shipped

Push your Airflow bookings to Google Calendar. Pull calendar blocks back into Airflow. Your team sees availability wherever they already look — in Google Calendar on their phone, on their laptop, on their watch.

Two-way means if someone blocks time in Google Calendar, Airflow respects it. No double-bookings because someone didn't check the right system.

On the horizon

These were the planned features with clear specifications. Most of them have since shipped as well — status notes inline.

Trusted Devices — shipped

Security that doesn't make you hate your software. Trusted Devices lets returning visitors authenticate with a PIN or biometric (Face ID, fingerprint) instead of waiting for a magic link email every time.

The system remembers your device, stores a secure token, and offers fast re-authentication on return visits. Plan tiers determine how many devices you can trust — solo operators might need two (phone and laptop), while teams might need more.

The goal: magic link security for first-time access, biometric convenience for daily use. This is live today.

PWA Wrapper — shipped

Install Airflow to your home screen on any device. The Progressive Web App wrapper gives you an app-like experience — full screen, no browser chrome, fast loading — without the overhead of a native app or an app store submission. App install is live.

AI Flow Agents — first agents live

This is where things get interesting. AI Flow started by extracting data from emails. The evolution — specialised AI agents that actively help you run your business — has begun, with the first five agents now live in the portal (including an account agent that can import your property from a website URL). The full line-up we're building toward:

Marketing Manager — analyses your booking patterns, suggests pricing adjustments for low-demand periods, drafts listing descriptions and social media content.

Revenue Analyst — tracks occupancy rates, average booking values, revenue per resource, seasonal trends. Surfaces insights you'd normally need a spreadsheet and two hours to figure out.

Guest Front Desk — handles guest communications, responds to common questions, manages check-in instructions and house rules. Available 24/7, consistent in tone, never forgets a detail.

SEO Consultant — optimises your STAY direct booking site for search engines. Suggests title tags, meta descriptions, content improvements.

Designer — generates property photos, marketing materials, and visual content tailored to your brand and listing platforms.

PA / Email Automator — manages your inbox, drafts responses to booking enquiries, follows up on pending payments, sends review requests after checkout.

Each agent is optional. You enable the ones that match your workflow. They work with your data — your bookings, your guests, your revenue — not generic advice from a training set.

Event vertical expansion — ticketing now live

Airflow already supports events as a booking vertical, and event ticketing has since shipped as a paid addon — ticket sales, attendee management, and capacity tracking. If you run workshops, conferences, or venue hire alongside property bookings, everything lives in one system.

Products and sales

Sell physical products and services alongside bookings. Airport transfers, welcome hampers, equipment hire, cleaning services, late checkouts — line items that attach to a booking and flow through to your Xero invoice automatically.

This turns Airflow from a booking processor into a revenue platform. Every touchpoint with your guest becomes an opportunity, and every sale is accounted for without manual entry.

How we prioritise

Every feature request, every idea, every shiny new technology gets filtered through one question: does this help a real business process a booking and get paid faster?

Revenue-critical before nice-to-have. Reliability before features. Boring infrastructure before exciting demos.

That's why STAY (direct bookings) is ahead of AI Agents in the queue. Direct bookings are money in your pocket today. AI agents are powerful, but they build on a foundation that needs to be rock-solid first.

That's why overages are ahead of trusted devices. Missing a booking because of a billing gap is a revenue problem. Needing to click a magic link is an inconvenience.

We'd rather ship five things that work perfectly than fifteen things that mostly work.

The honest bit

We're a small team building fast. The "coming soon" items are genuinely close — weeks of development, not aspirational quarter targets. The "on the horizon" items are further out, and the order might shift based on what our users tell us matters most.

We don't have a marketing team spinning roadmap items into press releases. We have engineers building software and writing about it plainly. If something slips, we'll say so. If priorities change because users need something different, we'll explain why.

That's the deal with building in public. You see the real picture, not the polished one.

Shape what comes next

Early access users don't just get the software first — they get a voice in what we build. Every feature in the "on the horizon" section can move up the queue if enough real users tell us it matters.

If you're running a booking business and spending too much time on admin, we built Airflow for you. Join now, connect your first integration, and tell us what you need next.

Get started — early access includes 3 months free or see how Airflow works.