Build your rental marketplace.

How to build your rental marketplace

1. 1

   Describe the job

   Connect rental requests, availability responses and equipment handovers.

2. 2

   Review the first version

   Choose how the rental coordinator records the provider and how the equipment inspector reviews the next step.

3. 3

   Refine the views

   Ask First to adjust the fields and views for the people who will use the app.

4. 4

   Test before sharing

   Walk through the process with a sample record and check who owns the next action.

What to include in your rental marketplace

• Keep the provider in context

  Keep provider, item, date request, availability source, handover and return together so the next person can understand the request or record.

• When the next step needs a decision

  Two providers list the same item source. Preserve provider ownership and confirm actual availability before accepting a dated request.

• Keep return visible

  Keep the requested dates provisional until the provider confirms availability.

• Choose what each person needs

  Give the rental coordinator a working view and the equipment inspector a review view. Keep provider and item attached to the decision as the work moves between them.