Solution · Marketplaces

Rental Marketplace Software

Renting is not selling with dates attached. Money moves between two strangers who have never met, and the asset has to come back afterwards. Two bookings on the same night cannot be undone. We build that, designed new for your market by a team that has built marketplaces many times. Most first releases go live in about 30 days.

  • iOS, Android and web
  • Calendars, deposits and payouts
  • Commission settled automatically
How it works

From a free weekend to a settled booking.

Nothing is earned until an asset goes out and comes back again. This is the path both sides take, and the part of the software that carries each step.

  1. 01

    List it

    An owner adds photos, a daily price, a deposit and the dates it is free.

    Listings and availability

  2. 02

    Find it

    Renters search by date, place and price, and a saved search tells them when something frees up.

    Search and saved alerts

  3. 03

    Book it, or ask

    Instant book where you allow it, and a request the owner approves where you do not.

    Instant book and requests

  4. 04

    Pay and hold

    The rent is taken and the deposit is held rather than spent, which is a different thing.

    Deposits

  5. 05

    Hand it over

    Codes, keys or collection, with the condition photographed by both sides before it leaves.

    Handover and condition

  6. 06

    Settle up

    The deposit is released or claimed, the owner is paid, and your commission comes off the top.

    Payouts and commission

Features

One marketplace, three points of view.

Renters, owners and you each see the app built for their job, all running on one system you own.

For renters

Find something free on the dates you need, book it, and get your deposit back.

  • Search by date, place, price and category
  • Real availability, not an enquiry form
  • Saved searches that alert when something frees up
  • Instant book, or a request to the owner
  • One checkout for the rent and the deposit
  • Messages with the owner before and during
  • Condition photos at pickup and return
  • Reviews, reports and a refund route

For owners

List in minutes, keep the calendar honest and get paid without chasing.

  • Listings with photos, price, rules and a deposit
  • A calendar that blocks itself when a booking lands
  • Approve requests, or let instant book run
  • Minimum stays, notice periods and turnaround gaps
  • Seasonal and weekend pricing
  • Claim against a deposit, with evidence attached
  • Payouts on your schedule, with a statement
  • Earnings, occupancy and upcoming bookings

For you, the admin

Run the marketplace, settle the money and keep both sides honest.

  • Listing approval and quality standards
  • Commission, service fees and who pays them
  • Deposits held, released and disputed
  • Cancellation policies, enforced by the software
  • Owner verification and payout accounts
  • Categories, cities and the fields each one needs
  • Programmatic city and category pages
  • Occupancy, average daily rate and take rate
Ways to earn

Six ways your rental marketplace earns.

Start with one and add the rest as you grow. Every rate is yours to set in the admin panel.

  • Most common

    Commission on bookings

    A take rate on every booking, split from the owner, the renter or both.

  • Owner subscription

    A monthly plan for more listings, better placement and a lower commission.

  • Featured and boosted

    Paid placement in search and on the home screen, sold by the day or the week.

  • Renter service fee

    A separate fee at checkout, which keeps the headline price low.

  • Damage waiver

    An optional cover charge instead of a deposit, priced per booking.

  • Qualified leads

    Where you connect rather than book, you charge per enquiry passed on.

Clients

What our clients say.

I worked with AppKodes for a website and mobile app development project, and overall, I'm very satisfied with the results. Their team was responsive and flexible throughout the process, and they delivered a product that met my expectations both in design and functionality.
Яша ФирузApr 2025
It was a good experience working with the team. They understood my ideas clearly and built everything as expected. The team was supportive, quick to respond, and helped me whenever I needed changes. Thank you for your hard work and support!
Prem SharmaApr 2025
Overall very good experience. I have been availing services for past 3 years. They are available for discussions and resolving issues whenever we faced any. Mr. Saravana has been looking after our project and I'm very much happy with his timely response. I would definetely recommend.
Vannala RajuApr 2025
Top features

The features that make a rental marketplace work.

Built into your marketplace and shaped around what you rent. Each one is designed and built new for you, and nothing here is switched on from a shelf.

  • October4 nights free
    Instant bookOn

    Availability that holds

    A calendar per listing, blocked the moment a booking lands, with turnaround gaps and minimum stays.

  • Saved search

    Van, Fri to SunWithin 20 km · Under $90 a day
    A van listing that matched a saved rental search1 just freed up$74 a day · 6 km
    AlertsOn

    Saved searches

    Renters say what they want and which dates, and hear the moment something frees up.

  • This month

    Occupancy78%
    ADR$86
    Take rate12%

    Owner earnings

    Occupancy, average daily rate and what they actually keep, so owners can price properly.

  • App languageEnglish
    English
    Français
    العربية
    Español

    Many languages

    The apps and the website fully translated, including right-to-left scripts, with prices in local currency.

  • 24 rentals within 5 km

    Search on a map

    What is free nearby on the dates a renter picked, with a radius they set themselves.

  • Studio flat, Marina, a promoted rental listingStudio flat, Marina$120 a nightFeatured
    Ford Transit, a promoted rental listingFord Transit$74 a dayBoosted
    Camera kit, a promoted rental listingCamera kit$36 a day

    Featured and boosted

    Paid placement that lifts a listing in the results, priced and timed by you.

Inside the app

Everything a rental marketplace needs, from day one.

A rental marketplace looks like a classifieds site from the outside, because it is a photograph, a price and a message. The difference is everything that happens after somebody says yes, and it is the part most first releases never build.

This is the machinery we build into yours, shaped around what you rent and how your market settles up. Each piece is designed and built new for you, by a team that has built marketplaces many times.

Get a free costed plan
  • A calendar that cannot double bookAvailability is held the moment a booking starts, not when it finishes paying. Two people arriving for the same van on the same morning is the one failure a marketplace never recovers from, and it is a locking problem rather than a screen.
  • Instant book, or a requestA spare room goes out on instant book. Nobody hands over a van that way, so the owner approves first. The software does both, set per marketplace and per listing rather than chosen once for everybody.
  • Deposits held, not spentA deposit is an authorisation your payment provider holds and releases, which is a different thing from taking the money and promising to send it back. Get that wrong and every dispute becomes a refund you fund yourself.
  • When it comes back brokenThe owner claims against the deposit with photographs attached, the renter answers, and your team decides. Condition captured at handover is what makes that decidable rather than one person's word against another's.
  • Payouts and your commissionThe renter pays once. The money splits between the owner and you, on the schedule you set, with a statement each side can read. Take rate, service fees and who absorbs them are settings rather than code.
  • Cancellation as rulesFlexible, moderate or strict, with the refund calculated by the software rather than argued in a mailbox. Owners want certainty and renters want fairness, and only written rules give both.
  • Getting the supply side onA marketplace with no listings has nothing to rent, and owners are harder to recruit than renters. Onboarding, quality standards and a listing that takes minutes are what decide whether your first hundred owners finish signing up.
  • City pages that can rankSearch is how these marketplaces grow, and a page per city and category has to be generated from your listings rather than written by hand. Architecture, internal links and schema are built in, because retrofitting them means rebuilding the site.
Additional features

The extra features you may need.

The core marketplace covers listings, availability, booking, deposits and payouts. These are the extras clients ask for most often, and each one is designed for your app and priced in your costed plan.

  • Channel sync

    Availability kept level with the big platforms, so nothing double books.

  • Dynamic pricing

    Weekends, seasons and gaps priced by rule rather than by hand.

  • Identity verification

    Documents and licences checked before a high-value asset goes out.

  • Condition capture

    Photographs at pickup and return, timestamped and attached to the booking.

  • Smart locks and codes

    Access issued per booking and expiring when it ends.

  • Delivery and collection

    For things that travel to the renter rather than the other way round.

  • Turnover and cleaning

    Jobs scheduled between bookings and assigned to somebody.

  • Programmatic city pages

    A page per city and category, generated from your listings.

  • Insurance integration

    Cover bought at checkout and attached to the booking.

  • Store launch designs

    Store screenshots and banners designed for launch.

Markets

One app type, many rentals.

The same pattern of listing, calendar, deposit and payout works for almost anything people lend for money. Each version is designed around its own market: its fields, its risks, its idea of fair wear.

  • Holiday lets and short staysNightly rates, minimum stays and turnaround gaps.
  • Vehicles and vansLicence checks, mileage limits and fuel rules.
  • Tools and construction plantDay rates, deposits and condition on return.
  • Cameras and production kitHigh value, short hire and serial numbers tracked.
  • Party and event hireDelivery, collection and a fixed window.
  • Furniture and appliancesMonthly hire with delivery and swap-outs.
  • Fashion and occasion wearSizes, cleaning between hires and a hard return date.
  • Boats and leisureLicences, skippers and weather cancellations.
  • Storage and parkingLong lets, recurring payment and access codes.
  • Workspace by the hourRooms and desks booked in slots rather than nights.
  • Baby and mobility equipmentHygiene standards and hire at the destination.
  • Manager and service directoriesOwners matched to managers, charged per enquiry.

Renting something that is not here? Tell us what goes out and comes back and we will scope it.

Trust and safety

Keep the marketplace honest.

A rental marketplace is worth exactly as much as the trust both sides have in it. These are built in from the first release, rather than bolted on after the first dispute.

  • Listing quality standardsPhotos, detail and rules checked before a listing goes live.
  • Verified owners and rentersIdentity and payout accounts checked before money moves.
  • Deposits and claimsHeld, released or claimed against, with evidence attached.
  • Cancellation enforcedThe policy calculates the refund, rather than an argument doing it.
  • Reviews on both sidesOwners rate renters too, which is what keeps assets coming back.
  • Audit logWho acted, when, and what they decided.
Timeline

From first call to launch.

Most first releases go live in about 30 days. Larger apps take longer, and your costed plan fixes the scope and the exact date.

BeforeWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Day 30+
  1. Free costed planBefore we start
  2. Design and prototypeWeek 1
  3. Build and testWeeks 2 to 4
  4. Launch and supportFrom about day 30
  5. Store submissionWeeks 4 to 5

Where most of the work happens

What you get along the way.

  • A plan before you commitThe scope, a fixed price and a launch date in writing, free, whether you go ahead or not.
  • A prototype in week oneYour screens in your brand, clickable, before a line of code is written.
  • A new build every weekThe app reaches your phone each week, so you watch it take shape instead of waiting for a reveal.
  • Both stores handledWe prepare the listings, submit the apps and answer the reviewers. Only the store account fees are yours.
  • A team that staysAfter launch we keep the apps fixed, current and running, and price new features the same way.
Get your date in writing
Questions

Before you build.

Not here? The costed plan answers the rest, for your app.

Can it work like Airbnb or Turo?

Yes. Listings, a calendar, instant book, deposits, payouts and reviews all work the way people expect from the big rental platforms. The difference is that it is your marketplace, with your categories, your commission and your rules, designed and built new for what you rent.

How do you build a rental marketplace?

Start with availability, because everything else hangs off it. Then listings and search, then the booking itself with the money and the deposit, then payouts and commission. Owner onboarding comes early rather than late, since a marketplace with no listings has nothing to rent. Cancellation, claims and reviews close the loop.

How do rental marketplaces handle damage and deposits?

A deposit is held by your payment provider rather than taken and promised back, which matters the first time somebody disputes one. Condition gets photographed at handover by both sides. If something comes back damaged the owner claims against the deposit with evidence, the renter answers, and your team decides. The software keeps the record so the decision is not one person's word against another's.

What stops two people booking the same thing?

Availability is held the moment a booking starts rather than when it finishes paying, which is a locking problem rather than a screen. Where your owners also list on the big platforms, channel sync keeps the calendars level. A double booking is the one failure a rental marketplace never recovers from, so it gets built properly in the first release.

Do owners approve bookings, or is it instant?

Both, and you set it per marketplace and per listing. A spare room goes out on instant book happily. Nobody hands over a van or a camera kit that way, so the owner sees the request, the dates and the renter first. High-value categories usually start as request-only and relax later.

How does the money reach the owner?

The renter pays once, in a single checkout. The software splits it between the owner and you on the schedule you set, with a statement each side can read. Your take rate, any renter service fee and who absorbs the payment charges are all settings. Payouts run through a provider that handles the compliance, so you are not holding other people's money.

Is this a ready-made app?

No. Every app we build is designed and built new for its client. We have built marketplaces many times, and that experience is what lets us fix the scope, the price and the launch date before we start.

How long does it take?

Most first releases go live in about 30 days. Larger marketplaces, or ones with several add-on modules, take longer. Your costed plan fixes the scope and the exact date in writing.

Which platforms do I get?

An iOS app, an Android app and a website for renters and owners, plus a web admin panel to run the marketplace. Some clients start with fewer and add the rest later.

Can it rank for every city we launch in?

That is an architecture decision rather than a marketing one, and it has to be made before the build. Pages per city and category are generated from your listings, with internal linking and schema built in. Retrofitting that onto a marketplace which treated the web as a brochure means rebuilding the site.

Can we charge for leads instead of bookings?

Yes, and for some marketplaces it is the better model. Where you connect an owner to a manager rather than taking the booking, the product is a qualified enquiry. You charge per introduction rather than per night. The listings, search and city pages are the same. The money and the reporting are not.

Who owns the app and the data?

You do, both. The code sits in your own repository, the cloud accounts stand in your company's name, and the apps ship under your own developer accounts. Documentation gets written for a developer who never met us.

Next step

Your first release could be live
next month.

Tell us about the app you want to build. We send back a costed plan with a fixed price and a launch date, free and yours to keep.

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