Marketplace
Book a verified student hostel bed near campus before you arrive, without an agent taking your money.
A booking platform per campus.
No account. No card. No sales call.
- Free marketplace liquidity check
- No account or card to try it
- Pricing published in full
The problem
Every academic year begins with a scramble.
Students arrive in a city they do not know, sleep on a friend's floor, and hire a runner to find a room, paying an agent fee and often an advance for a bed that turns out to be occupied, filthy or nonexistent.
Hostel owners meanwhile have empty beds in one block and queues at another with no way to match demand.
Who this is for
Students and parents at Legon, KNUST, UCC, UPSA and the private universities, roughly 300,000 tertiary students, plus the hostel owners around each campus.
Find out whether your marketplace is actually liquid
Put in your active suppliers, monthly requests and fill rate. See how many more suppliers a working fill rate needs, and the sales lost to no match. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.
Liquidity is fragile. It works on good days and fails on busy ones.
Fill rate
- Requests per supplier
- 12.5
- Matched per month
- 225
- GMV per month
- $40,500
- Unmatched requests
- 275
Take this with you
No email required. It is your result.
CediHostel — liquidity check · 45% fill rate today, 85% target · Add 87 suppliers to get there · $49,500 of GMV currently going unmatched each month Run it yourself: https://cedihostel.com
Method: fill rate is modelled as 1 − e^(−k·supply/demand), with k solved from your current numbers. Each additional supplier covers less incremental demand than the last, which is why fill rate saturates rather than scaling linearly.
How it works
Three steps, and the first one costs nothing.
- 1
Try the free marketplace liquidity check
Put in your supply, demand and fill rate, and see what a working marketplace needs. No account, no card, no call.
- 2
Put CediHostel to work
A booking platform per campus.
- 3
Upgrade only if it earns it
Keep the free result either way. Move to a paid plan when CediHostel is already doing the work.
What you actually get
Six things that are true on the first day, not on the roadmap.
Verified supply
Every listing on CediHostel is checked before it appears. No ghost inventory, no bait pricing.
Real availability
Availability is confirmed at the source, so what you see is what you can actually book.
Protected payments
Funds are held until the job is confirmed complete. Both sides are covered on every transaction.
Transparent pricing
The full price up front, including fees. No quote games and no surprises at checkout.
Reviews that survive scrutiny
Only completed, paid transactions can leave a review, and reviews cannot be bought or removed.
Dispute resolution
A written process with defined timelines, published openly, applied the same way to everyone.
Questions people actually ask
- Do I need to talk to anyone to try this?
- No. The free marketplace liquidity check runs without an account, a card or a call.
- What does it cost?
- The free tier is free forever. Paid plans start at $49 per month.
- Who is this actually for?
- Students and parents at Legon, KNUST, UCC, UPSA and the private universities, roughly 300,000 tertiary students, plus the hostel owners around each campus.
- What problem does it solve?
- Every academic year begins with a scramble.
- Can I get my data out?
- Yes. You can download everything as a JSON file from your account settings at any time, and deleting your account deletes your data.
- Why should I trust the result?
- It is plain arithmetic on the numbers you put in, worked out in your browser. Change any input and every figure updates, so you can check each one yourself.
Pricing
Published in full. No “contact us for pricing”, no per-seat surprise on renewal.
Free
The marketplace liquidity check, free for good.
- Free marketplace liquidity check
- No credit card
- Core features included
- Community support
ProPopular
For students and parents.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited usage
- Full history and exports
- Integrations and API access
- Email support
Scale
For teams that depend on this in production.
- Everything in Pro
- SSO and SCIM
- Audit log and data residency
- 99.9% uptime SLA
- Dedicated support channel
Prices in USD. Cancel any time from the dashboard — no email, no retention call.
Find out whether your marketplace is actually liquid
Put in your active suppliers, monthly requests and fill rate. See how many more suppliers a working fill rate needs, and the sales lost to no match. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.
Open the free toolIt runs in your browser. CediHostel never sees your inputs.