Own less,access more.
A circular-economy rental marketplace engineered around the full lease lifecycle — discovery, verification, booking, payment, handover, return and settlement.
Where the story starts.
A rental business set out to let customers access products without necessarily buying them, connecting people who need items with partners who own them. For the customer the promise is simple: find something, book it, use it, return it. Underneath, a rental is far more than a sale — it is a relationship with a beginning, a middle and an end, and every stage has to be tracked.
A rental is not a sale. It is a lifecycle that has to be modelled end to end.
Standard ecommerce is a straight line: order, payment, delivery. A rental runs through discovery, verification, booking, payment, handover, a usage period, extension, return, inspection and settlement — with counterparty risk on both sides. A conventional order model cannot describe temporary possession, availability windows or the split between what a customer pays and what a partner is settled, so the platform needed a purpose-built transaction model.
How the platform is wired.
The path a single request travels — each step an engineering decision.
The applications behind it.
Customer application
React Native app: OTP login, profile, KYC, discovery, search, rental periods, booking, payments, active rentals and history.
Partner application
Manage partner profiles, listings and availability, review orders, monitor transactions and handle fulfilment.
Administration platform
Users, rental partners, products, categories, transactions, verification, payouts, workflows, content and reports.
Trust and identity layer
KYC through external verification provider ONGRID to establish trust before high-value rental transactions.
Payments and settlements
Razorpay architecture that separates customer payment from partner settlement rather than a single transaction.
The hard problems we solved.
Not screens — the difficult, load-bearing engineering underneath.
Temporary-possession model
Modelling ownership versus temporary possession, rental duration and booking availability instead of a one-off sale.
Lifecycle transaction states
Tracking transaction states across booking, handover, extension, return, inspection and settlement.
Two-sided settlement
Reconciling customer payments and partner payouts as distinct flows through the Razorpay architecture.
Counterparty verification
Integrating ONGRID KYC to establish identity and trust before value changes hands.
Circular-economy extension
Adding zero-value donation transactions, pickup, drop-off, society participation and NGO verification alongside rentals.
Architecture, not a logo wall.
What became possible.
A digital foundation for a multi-sided rental ecosystem
Customer verification built in before high-value transactions
Two-sided payments that settle customers and partners separately
Circular-economy workflows spanning rental and donation
The services this drew on.
What this demonstrates — Marketplace engineering that extends beyond ecommerce — platforms designed around the actual economics and operational lifecycle of the business model.