Success Stories

Spotahome. Landlord Rent Collection Platform.

Property management platform

Overview

We partnered with one of Europe's hottest and fastest-growing startups, revolutionising how people rent housing. Spotahome offers an online mid- to long-term housing rental platform for people looking to move abroad.

Spotahome wanted to create a new platform for property management, so we developed Dreyhub. This platform allows Landlords and Property Managers to list their rentable properties and assign them to Tenants for the relevant periods. The platform fully manages Landlords’ rent collections, reporting, etc. and provides additional features for Tenants.

Challenges

Since the client was a start-up company seeking potential investors to increase capital and funds, their resources were limited, whereas time was essential. They also required our consulting services regarding the design and development of their new product. Integrating the solution with several 3rd party systems already in place added additional limitations and complexity to the project.

Solution

The team helped Spotahome clarify its vision in the first two months, develop the MVP, deploy it in Private Beta, and brought the application to production. In the following year, we developed new features and made improvements. The solution we delivered is a property management system called Dreyhub that allows users to manage their properties and organize all information from one place. 

For the solution, we built and implemented a custom REST API using Silex, Doctrine, and DDD and used unit and integration tests to ensure its quality. The team developed from scratch a Custom Web App (SPA) and a Public Website (SPA) using the Angular framework, which was fully internationalized and optimized for performance and UI experience on all devices. 

The website also had search engine optimization and server-side rendering. Furthermore, the team built a Blog platform for the website using the Ghost blogging platform and did several advanced integrations with third-party systems such as Stripe and Mailchimp and some internal Spotahome services.

Dreyhub allowed landlords to Monitor leases and occupancies, Manage check-in and check-out dates, Keep track of revenue, Organize tenant payments, and Collect rent online automatically.

Results
  • Spotahome entered a new market segment helping landlords manage their properties.
  • The platform scaled successfully, handling x25 more rents in 1 year and x6.5 more property managers.
Quick Facts
Duration: 1 year and 4 months

Technology Stack: PHP, Silex, Doctrine, Angular 2+, REST, DDD, TDD, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services, Concourse  

Team: 5 Engineers, 1 Development Manager

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