Indian law says you must keep every guest's ID on record — and report foreign guests to the FRRO within 24 hours. Checkinator does both from one link your guests tap, while you keep hosting exactly as you do today.
The Foreigners Act requires you to report each foreign national to the FRRO within 24 hours of arrival — per guest, not per booking. Airbnb doesn't do this for you.
State police rules require a guest register with IDs — and during verification, they ask to see it. A notebook of scribbled names and missing ID copies doesn't hold up.
Passport number, visa number, issue dates and places, arrival details, purpose of visit — chased over WhatsApp, then retyped into a government portal. For every foreign guest.
Checkinator turns all of it into one link your guests tap — collected, filed and ready before you've thought about it.
One scheduled Airbnb message covers all your listings. Booking confirms → the guest gets the link automatically. No app, no account — just a few taps on their phone.
ID front, back and signature file themselves into the right property's register — numbers masked for privacy, one click to print. Foreign guests are asked for their passport, visa and Form C details automatically.
WhatsApp + email when a guest checks in, when a foreign guest's Form C is due, and when someone arriving today hasn't checked in yet — so nothing slips through.
Setup is one scheduled message on Airbnb — pick all your listings, and it fires automatically minutes after any booking confirms. You never send a check-in link by hand. From then on, every completed check-in lands in your WhatsApp and email on its own.
A guest arriving today hasn't checked in? You get a nudge on WhatsApp and email before it becomes a problem.
No app, no account. Their confirmation code pulls up the exact booking — listing, dates, guest count — so records are accurate by construction, and every guest on the booking gets verified, not just the one who booked.
Each check-in files the guest's ID front, back and signature into the right property's register — the record police ask for during verification. Nothing to type, nothing to chase. If they ever ask, you print it in one click.
Every check-in lands in the right property's register automatically — Airbnb and direct guests alike.
Phone and ID numbers stay masked until you need them. IDs and signatures are encrypted in transit and at rest and used only for your register — in line with India's DPDP Act — not lying in a drawer.
Names, address, DOB, ID copies, dates and signature — the columns police registers use — print in one click. Every record kept for 7+ years.
When a foreign guest checks in, their Form C details are already collected. Our Chrome extension fills every field on the FRRO portal — you review, upload the passport-size photo it hands you, solve the captcha and submit.
Every foreign check-in creates a filing with its 24-hour deadline. You're reminded on WhatsApp and email before it's due — never after.
The extension fills the entire FRRO form from the guest's check-in — and hands you the passport-size photo, the only upload the portal needs.
Filing happens on your own FRRO login — you review the filled form, solve the captcha and submit. Then mark it filed and keep the acknowledgment number.
Every host gets a page with all their listings, UPI payment and built-in check-in — for repeat guests, your Google Maps profile and your own marketing. Guests pay less than on Airbnb; you keep 100%.
See a live booking pageEvery property gets its own register, Form C tracking and alerts. You're only billed for listings that actually host guests — a dormant month costs nothing.
Managing 10+ listings? We'll set you up personally and sort volume pricing.
WhatsApp usYes. Every accommodation provider in India — including Airbnb hosts and homestays — must report each foreign national to the FRRO within 24 hours of arrival using Form C, under the Foreigners Act. Checkinator collects every required field at guest check-in and fills the FRRO form for you.
No. Airbnb does not file Form C on a host's behalf — the legal responsibility sits with the accommodation provider. You need your own FRRO accommodation login and must file for each foreign guest.
Almost. Checkinator collects everything, tracks the deadline, and its Chrome extension fills every field on the FRRO portal, including handing you the passport-size photo to upload. The government portal requires a human to solve the captcha and press submit — that part stays with you, and takes under a minute.
State police rules require accommodation providers to keep a register of all guests and their ID documents. Checkinator builds a police-ready digital register automatically from guest check-ins — ID front, back and signature, masked by default, printable in one click.
No — collecting government-required KYC from your guests is your legal obligation as a host, and sending a check-in link through Airbnb's scheduled messages is standard practice. Checkinator never does anything inside your Airbnb account on your behalf.
Your first property is free forever. Each additional property is ₹299/month — and it's only billed for months it actually hosts guests, so a dormant listing costs nothing. Billing for a property doesn't even start until its first guest completes a web check-in, and you get 14 days free after that before autopay begins. Registers always stay readable, since record-keeping obligations don't end when a listing goes quiet.
When you approve autopay, your UPI app shows the mandate's upper limit — headroom so your plan can grow as more of your listings host guests, without approving payments again. It is a limit, not a charge: you're only ever billed ₹299 per additional hosting listing, your UPI app notifies you a day before every charge, and you can cancel the mandate from the app anytime.
No — guests tap a link, verify on WhatsApp, photograph their ID or passport and sign. Most finish in a couple of minutes. Foreign guests see a few extra Form C fields; Indian guests are done even faster.
Set up before your next booking. Keep using Airbnb exactly as you do — Checkinator handles the register and Form C from there.