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:
AI Flow. Our AI extraction engine processes booking confirmation emails into structured data — guest details, dates, amounts, fees, taxes — with deterministic accuracy. Forward an email, get a booking record. It works with Airbnb confirmations and direct booking emails.
4-view calendar. Day, week, month, and timeline views across all your resources. Drag-and-drop booking management. 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 the booking currency. 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, admin, member), 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 are high-priority items in active development or final planning. Weeks, not months.
Direct Booking Sites (STAY)
This is the biggest thing we’re working on right now.
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 planned. Your brand, your booking site, your customer relationship.
Overages system
Right now, if you run out of actions, booking processing pauses until you top up or your plan renews. That’s not good enough. The overages system will auto-bill for additional actions 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
Team invitations currently create the invite record in the database, but the actual email notification isn’t wired up yet. This means you have to manually tell your team members to sign in. That’s embarrassing, and we’re fixing it.
Simple feature, but it matters for the onboarding experience. When you invite someone to your organisation, they should get an email that takes them straight to login.
Real Stripe Price IDs
We’re moving from test-mode Stripe data to production-ready price objects. This is the final step before we can process real payments at scale. The billing pipeline works end-to-end in test mode — this is about flipping it to production with verified price IDs and production API keys.
Google Calendar two-way sync
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 are planned features with clear specifications. They’re further out — months rather than weeks — but they’re designed and waiting for their turn in the build queue.
Trusted Devices
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 will 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.
PWA Wrapper
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.
Planned features include offline mode for viewing cached booking data when you’re out of signal range, and push notifications for new bookings, low-action alerts, and team activity.
AI Flow Agents
This is where things get interesting. AI Flow currently extracts data from emails. The next evolution is specialised AI agents that actively help you run your business:
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
Airflow already supports events as a booking vertical. The expansion adds ticket sales, attendee management, capacity tracking, and event-specific reporting. 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.