Sharetribe now allows anyone to start their own Airbnb for X.

New availability management product completes Sharetribe’s offering to entrepreneurs who want to create a rental or service marketplace
Helsinki, Finland – January 18, 2017 - Booking music studios, renting kitesurf gear, or finding local elderly care: there are many aspiring entrepreneurs out there with great ideas for their own rental or service marketplaces, sometimes jokingly referred to as “Airbnb for X”. Previously, launching such a service required both a lot of technical knowledge and a hefty starting capital. With the addition of an integrated availability management system, Sharetribe, the market leader in SaaS-based marketplace software, has now made building such a service accessible to anyone.

“A streamlined availability management system lies at the heart of many great marketplace ideas”, says Sharetribe CEO Juho Makkonen. ”With this new release we are now offering a complete solution to entrepreneurs looking to build their own Airbnb for X, in a way that is fast, easy and affordable.”

Sharetribe offers a fully online solution, including hosting, online payment handling and booking management, for anyone who wants to build a marketplace to rent, sell or buy any type of product or service. The platform requires no coding knowledge and a marketplace can be online in a matter of minutes. The entrepreneur managing the marketplace has to bring in both providers and customers, and earns money through a commission fee that is levied on all transactions that happen on the platform.

“Online marketplaces are hard, you have to build up the community and match supply
and demand, and at the same time build the technology,” says Makkonen. “With Sharetribe we strive to solve as much of the technical part as possible, so that entrepreneurs can focus on their business, and make their great idea become reality.”

Sharetribe has been one of the front runners in the peer-to-peer online marketplace sector and gained a leading position since its launch in 2014. Marketplaces using Sharetribe have already been created in more than 50 countries, and the company received a seed funding round of $1 million, led by Lifeline Ventures.

Sharetribe Ltd
Bulevardi 14
00120 HELSINKI
FINLAND

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