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Tidegate: Holiday Rental Marketplace App and Host Portal
Tidegate is a holiday rental marketplace designed and built by our team. Guests search for stays, see the full price, book and pay in the app. Hosts keep a calendar, answer messages and see their payouts on a web page.
Travel and holiday rentals
Guest mobile app + host web portal
Android · iOS · Web
Tidegate · admin
Tidegate was designed and built by the PRS CloudTech team.
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Apps
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User roles
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Screens shown
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Host paid after check-in
The brief
What a rental marketplace needs
A family wants a cottage in the hills for a long weekend. They search many sites, call a few owners and wait for replies. Prices change by the day, and extra fees show up at the last step.
Owners have their own trouble. They keep bookings in a notebook or a chat group, and a date gets sold twice. Guests pay by bank transfer to a stranger and hope the place is as shown.
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Easy search
A guest should find stays by place, dates and number of people, with clear photos and the full price shown up front.
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One true calendar
Each stay needs a single calendar so a date can never be sold twice.
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Safe payment
The guest should pay in the app, and the host should be paid after the stay begins, so both sides feel safe.
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Clear rules
The cancel rule should be written in plain words before the guest pays.
What we designed
Inside Tidegate
Tidegate follows a stay from the first search to the host's payout. These are its six parts.
Stay page
Each stay has photos, what is included, a map and details about the host. The total price for the guest's dates sits at the bottom with a Reserve button.
Booking and payment
The guest sees every charge, such as the nightly price, cleaning and fees, before paying. They pay by UPI or card. The cancel rule appears right above the Pay button.
Host calendar
The host sees bookings on a calendar, blocks dates for their own use and sets prices, for example higher on weekends. A new booking blocks the dates at once.
Messages
Guests and hosts can write to each other before and after the booking. The host sees the next check-ins and can message each guest from the same list.
Payouts and reviews
The host sees what each booking earned, the fee taken and when the money arrives. After the stay, both sides can leave a review.
Screens
How Tidegate looks
The mobile app
How it works
Key journeys, step by step
Here is how the main tasks work in Tidegate, from the first search to the host's payout.
Find a stay
The guest searches for a place and dates, filters the list, opens a stay and checks the photos, the host and the price.
Book and pay
The guest reads the cancel rule, pays by UPI and gets a confirmation with the address and check-in steps.
Host a guest
The host gets an alert, sees the dates blocked on the calendar and sends a welcome message with directions.
Get paid
After check-in the payout is sent. The host sees the booking total, the fee and the amount received.
Suggested technology
Flutter
Laravel
MySQL
Redis
Google Maps
Razorpay
What we would deliver
Product planning
UI/UX design
Mobile app development
Web app development
Payment integration
FAQ
Questions about building a product like Tidegate
What is a holiday rental marketplace?
It is a website and app where hosts list homes, cottages and villas for short stays, and guests search, book and pay. The marketplace holds the money and pays the host after the stay starts.
Which features should a holiday rental app start with?
Start with search by place and dates, a stay page with the full price, booking with online payment, a host calendar that blocks dates at once, and payouts. Reviews, messages, offers and calendar sync with other sites can follow in the next release.
Can you build a rental marketplace like this for my business?
Yes. We can build the guest app, the host portal and an admin panel for your team, with search, calendars, payments, payouts and reviews. We can start with one region or one type of stay.
How do hosts avoid double bookings?
Each stay has one calendar. A booking blocks those dates at once, and the host can also block dates by hand. If the host has the stay listed elsewhere, the design can sync with that calendar.
When does the host get paid?
In this design the guest pays when they book. The money is held and sent to the host 24 hours after the guest checks in. The host sees every payout and fee on the payouts page.
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