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Occupancy Guard turns your Ring camera or video doorbell into an arrival ledger and anti-chargeback evidence engine for your short-term rental. It counts people at your entrance - it never identifies them.
For Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com and direct hosts, Occupancy Guard watches arrivals during a booking and turns them into dated, watermarked photo evidence:
- Proof-of-stay: every authorized guest arrival becomes a certified snapshot, so you can defeat "services not rendered" chargebacks and "guest never stayed" claims.
- Over-occupancy alerts: booked for 2, but 4 people arrive? Get an instant alert with photo evidence.
- Out-of-window check-ins: an arrival with no active booking, or before check-in, is flagged in real time.
- Evidence Packet: one tap assembles arrivals, a timeline, "booked N / detected M", and integrity hashes into a dispute-ready packet for the Airbnb Resolution Center or a chargeback rebuttal.
Set your properties, enter your bookings, and let the Ring device you already own do the rest. Privacy-first by design: the system counts heads, never runs facial recognition, and stores only what you need as evidence.
Subscription: Occupancy Guard is a paid app, activated and billed through the Ring Appstore with your Ring account - manage or cancel it any time in Ring My Apps. It covers over-occupancy, out-of-window and early check-in alerts, proof-of-stay arrival records, Evidence Packet export, and 90-day retention of recorded arrivals.
Compatibility: Occupancy Guard works with your existing Ring camera or video doorbell through the manufacturer's official partner API and secure account linking that you authorize. The device must cover the entrance or approach to the property. Ring is a trademark of its respective owner; Occupancy Guard is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Ring or Amazon. Available in the United States.
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What's New in Occupancy Guard
1.0.10
August 18, 2026
Notification control now covers both email and push on your phone: choose only what needs attention (the default), every arrival, or nothing at all. Previously the setting only filtered your inbox and your phone buzzed for every arrival. Fixes: - Opening Properties no longer signs you out when your Ring account is not linked yet. - Requests no longer hang indefinitely on an unresponsive network.
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