NovacraftRenting in Nigeria usually means four disconnected headaches: finding a verified place, moving large sums of money safely, paying the bills that come with it, and finding someone trustworthy to fix things. Rentwize folds all four into a single account — a marketplace, a wallet, bill payments and a vetted service-professional network that tenants, landlords, agents and artisans all share.
Novacraft designed and engineered the entire platform: the iOS and Android app, the customer web app, the staff admin console, the marketing site, and the API underneath them. One backend serves every surface, so a rent invoice raised by a landlord on the web appears in the tenant’s app with the same escrow, ledger and notification guarantees everywhere.
The hard part of a money-moving product is trust. Every wallet movement is recorded as a double-entry ledger transaction, KYC gates are enforced by tier, and staff tooling exposes the full audit trail — escrows, verifications, failure logs — so support can answer any “where is my money?” question with a paper trail instead of a shrug.
Mobile, web, admin, marketing and the API beneath them — designed together, shipped together.
A modular monolith behind a versioned REST API: auth, wallet, ledger, property, rent, marketplace, KYC, chat and admin domains. Wallet movements are double-entry ledger records; support chat and escalation alerts ride Socket.io.
One codebase for iOS and Android: marketplace, wallet, bills, inspections and support chat, with biometric unlock, push notifications and over-the-air updates so fixes ship without waiting on store review.
The browser counterpart to the app — browse the marketplace, manage properties and rent, fund and spend from the wallet, complete Dojah KYC, chat with support, and export receipts to PDF.
Staff operations for users, properties, invoices, escrows, the ledger, KYC and support. Every API call is proxied server-side, so bearer tokens never reach the browser.
SEO-first marketing site — features, marketplace preview, audience sections, FAQ, blog and legal pages, with structured data and generated sitemaps throughout.
Funding, transfers, rent and bills all settle through one wallet backed by double-entry bookkeeping. Every naira has a source and a destination row, which makes reconciliation a query — not an investigation. Escrow holds rent until inspections clear, protecting both sides of the transaction.
Dojah-powered KYC (ID + selfie) gates the actions that matter, with tiers that scale limits to verification depth. Landlords, agents and service professionals carry verified badges, and the admin console gives staff a review queue with the full document trail.
Socket.io chat runs across the app and web with the same thread history. When a conversation needs a human decision, escalation alerts fire into the admin console live — no polling, no lost tickets.
Landlords list, sponsor and manage properties from their pocket; tenants browse verified listings, book inspections and pay through escrow. Reminders chase the dates so nobody else has to — renewals, inspections and invoices all announce themselves.
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