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How Roomvia works

For people looking for a space, and for people renting one out. What Roomvia checks, what it deliberately does not show, and what it does not do at all.

Who it is for

Two kinds of space, one marketplace

Roomvia runs one search and one set of rules over two very different lets, and adapts what it asks and what it shows to the one you chose.

Residential

People letting or looking for somewhere to live

A room in a shared house, a studio, a lodger arrangement, a whole property. Advertised as a monthly rent, with the things that decide whether a room works: bills, deposit, minimum stay, who else lives there, furnishing.

  • Priced by the month
  • Shows an approximate area, never an exact address
  • Filters for bills, furnishing, minimum stay and household

Browse residential rooms

Professional

Businesses and practitioners letting or renting workspace

Treatment and clinic rooms, salon chairs, desks and small offices, teaching rooms, studios and event space. Advertised by the hour, the day or the month, because a therapist taking one afternoon a week and a tenant taking a year are both normal.

  • Priced by the hour, day or month
  • Can show a precise business location where the host gives one
  • Filters for facilities, access hours and the terms of the let

Browse professional spaces

Step by step

What you actually do

Whether you are looking for a space or renting one out.

  1. 1

    Describe your space

    The listing wizard adapts to what you're listing — a residential room asks different questions to a treatment room.

  2. 2

    Add photos, pricing and availability

    Set your rates, availability windows and house or space rules.

  3. 3

    Submit for review and go live

    A moderator checks every listing against our rules before it can appear in search. You keep managing it from your dashboard afterwards.

Search and location

Where things are, without saying where you live

Location is the most useful filter on a rental marketplace and the most sensitive field on a residential listing. Roomvia treats those as two different problems.

  • Search by place, or by distance from you

    Type a town, city or postcode, or use Near me, which asks your browser for permission first. Declining changes nothing about the search you can run — it only means you type the place instead.

  • A residential listing is deliberately imprecise

    The map point on a residential listing is approximate, and the exact address is never part of the public record — not in the page, not in the search results, not in the map data behind them. You agree the address with the host.

  • The map and the list are the same search

    Explore shows one result set two ways. Nothing can appear on the map and be missing from the list, and every filter is in the address bar, so a search you found useful is a link you can send or bookmark.

What is on a listing page

  • Photos of the space, in the order the host arranged.
  • The price, and the basis it is charged on — monthly for a room, hourly or daily for professional space.
  • The facts that decide it: size, facilities, what is included, minimum term, availability.
  • The area it is in, and how far it is from wherever you searched.
  • Who is hosting it, and what they have told us about it.

What is never on it: ratings, review counts, badges you cannot earn, or a booking button. Roomvia does not have those, so it does not print them.

Trust

Every listing is read by a person before it appears

Moderation is not a filter that runs after publication. A listing cannot reach search results until it has passed review.

  1. You submit

    Nothing is public at this point. The listing sits in a queue, and your dashboard says so.

  2. A moderator reads it

    A person checks the listing against Roomvia's rules: is it a real space, is the category right, is the pricing clear, do the photos show what is being let, and is anything in it prohibited.

  3. Approved, or returned with a reason

    An approval publishes the listing as soon as an active plan covers it. A return names what needs to change, in words you can act on, and the listing goes back to you rather than disappearing.

  4. Later changes are reviewed too

    Price and availability change immediately. Changing the title, description or photos opens another quick review, and the version people can already see stays online while that happens.

Plans

What Roomvia charges for

One thing, stated plainly: the entitlement for a host to publish.

A listing plan sets how many listings a host can have live at once and how many photographs each one carries. It is billed as a monthly recurring subscription and renews automatically until it is cancelled; cancelling stops the renewal and the plan runs to the end of the period already paid for. Listings are never deleted when a plan ends — they stop being publicly visible and stay in the dashboard.

See plans and prices

Who pays what

People looking for a space
Nothing, ever. No account is needed to search.
Hosts
A monthly listing plan, paid to Roomvia.
Rent, deposits, session fees
Agreed and paid directly between the host and the person renting. Roomvia is not in that payment and holds no client money.

Boundaries

What Roomvia does not do

The most important thing a marketplace of this shape has to be clear about. Everything below is a limit, not a feature waiting behind a paywall.

  • Roomvia does not take rent, tenancy deposits or commission. Those are arranged and paid directly between you and the host.
  • Roomvia is not an instant-booking site. A listing tells you what is available; agreeing it happens between you and the host.
  • In-app messaging, viewing requests and booking requests are not built yet. Listings say so where a contact button would otherwise be.
  • Roomvia does not hold client money, run credit or reference checks, or provide a tenancy agreement.
  • A moderator's approval means the listing passed Roomvia's rules. It is not a guarantee about the space, the host, or the arrangement you reach with them.

Staying safe on Roomvia covers what these limits mean in practice — including why you should never pay before viewing a space.

Questions

Common questions

More detail on plans, publishing and your account is in the Help Centre.

Does it cost anything to look for a space?
No. Searching, filtering, opening a listing and using the contact details on it are free, and there is no account required to search. Plans are for hosts who want to publish a space.
Why can I not see the exact address of a room?
Because it is somebody's home. Residential listings publish the area and an approximate point on the map, and the exact address is something you agree with the host directly. Professional spaces are businesses, so they can show a precise location where the host has supplied one.
How do I contact a host?
Through the details the host puts on the listing. Roomvia has no in-app messaging yet, and rather than show a “Message host” button that opens nothing, listings say plainly what contact is available.
How long does review take?
A listing is queued as soon as you submit it and reviewed by a person, so it is not instant. You do not need to chase it — your dashboard shows the state, and you are emailed when a decision is made.
Can I list a residential room and a professional space on one account?
Yes. One account, one dashboard, both kinds of listing. The plans are separate because the two families are priced differently — see Pricing — but you manage everything in the same place.
I am listing on behalf of a business. What do I do?
Create your own account, then set up an organisation from Account → Organisation. The organisation holds its own listings, plan and invoices, and you switch between personal and business listings with a filter rather than a second login. Adding colleagues to an organisation is not self-serve yet — Roomvia adds members on request in the meantime.

Not answered here? Help Centre · Contact Roomvia

Ready to start?

Search without an account, or create one and publish your first listing. The listing form saves as you go, so you do not have to finish it in one sitting.