The August integration connects your August smart lock to Nowistay so that unique keypad codes are generated automatically for every guest booking. No more meeting guests at the door, hiding lockboxes, or programming codes by hand.
Each guest receives a temporary code that only works during their stay, from check-in to check-out, and it is revoked automatically once they leave.
Important: only one smart lock can be assigned per property. If you mix brands across your portfolio (August, Yale, Schlage, KeyNest, Nuki, igloohome, TTLock, Tedee), you pick one device per property.
Before connecting August to Nowistay, make sure you have:
From your Nowistay dashboard, go to Integrations. Under the Smart locks section, find the Premium - Schlage / Yale / August / KeyNest card and click Connect.
About the screenshots: the captures below were taken with a Yale account, because the connection flow is shared by all Premium brands. The screens are identical for August. The only difference is the brand you pick in the connection window.
The Premium smart locks drawer opens. Click Connect Yale, Schlage, August or KeyNest.
A secure connection window opens. Nowistay never sees or stores your August password. Your credentials go straight from your browser to August.
Click Continue, then pick August from the list of brands. The capture below shows Yale selected, but August sits in the same list.
August then asks which app you use to manage your lock. Pick the one installed on your phone:
Sign in with your August credentials and approve the connection. The window closes and you are back in the Premium smart locks drawer, with the account listed under Connected account.
Once your account is connected, the panel lists your August locks under Lock assignments, with one row per property.
For each property you want to equip:
As soon as you select a lock, Nowistay marks it Active and starts billing the $6/month fee for that device. Locks that are not assigned to any property stay Inactive and are not billed.
Important: each property can only have one smart lock assigned at a time, whatever the brand. If the property already has a Yale, Schlage, KeyNest, Nuki, igloohome, TTLock or Tedee device assigned, remove it first.
To change the assigned lock later, pick a different one from the dropdown. To remove the assignment entirely, use the Remove button. The lock becomes Inactive and is no longer billed from the following month onward.
The dropdown only shows August locks that can receive online keypad codes. If one of your locks is missing:
The Premium smart locks integration uses a per-device monthly fee on top of your Nowistay subscription. The rules are simple:
Example: if you have 3 locks in your account and assign 2 of them to your properties on March 5, you will be billed $12 for March. The third one stays free until you assign it.
If your locks are spread across several accounts (for example, one account per building, per co-host, or per region), you can connect all of them to Nowistay. Each account contributes its own devices to the Premium smart locks panel.
To add another account, open the Premium smart locks drawer from Integrations and click Add next to Connected account. The same secure connection window opens and you can sign in with a different account.
Billing rules are unchanged: only devices you actually assign to a property are charged $6/month, whatever account they come from.
Once a lock is assigned to a property, Nowistay handles everything automatically:
For each device, you can choose how many days before check-in Nowistay should push the code. The setting appears below the device selector, labeled Generate codes X days before arrival. Allowed values are 1 to 14 days, with a default of 5 days.
If the code cannot be created on the scheduled day (for example, if the device is temporarily offline), Nowistay retries every hour until it succeeds, up to midnight on the check-in day in the property's local timezone.
The access margin controls how much extra time the code stays valid before check-in and after check-out. The setting appears below the code generation timing. Allowed values are 0 to 240 minutes (4 hours), with a default of 30 minutes. The margin is applied symmetrically, so the same duration is added before check-in and after check-out.
Example: with a 3:00 PM check-in, an 11:00 AM check-out and a 30-minute margin, the code works from 2:30 PM on the arrival day to 11:30 AM on the departure day.
The validity window is based on the check-in and check-out times of each booking, in the property's timezone:
If Nowistay cannot create a code (for example, if the device is offline), the system keeps retrying every hour:
The generated code is available in your automated guest messages through the {{smartlock_code}} variable. The legacy {{nuki_code}} variable also works, for backward compatibility.
Create an automated message triggered before check-in and include something like:
Your door code is {{smartlock_code}}. Enter it on the August keypad and press the August logo to unlock. It works from check-in to check-out.
Your guests receive their code automatically, with no manual handoff. See how to set up automated guest messages for the full walkthrough.
By default, Nowistay generates a random code for each booking. You can also use the last digits of your guest's phone number, which makes the code easier to remember. Open the smart lock settings for the property and pick from the Code source dropdown:
If the guest phone mode is selected but the number is missing, too short, already in use, or refused by the device, Nowistay automatically falls back to a random code, so your guests always get a working access code.
To disconnect an account, open the Premium smart locks drawer from Integrations and click Disconnect next to the account name. Disconnecting will:
If you have several accounts connected, disconnecting one only affects its own devices. Your other accounts keep working normally.
