An owner came in with one idea, got an honest no on the Monday call, and came back Thursday morning with a better one: a marketplace where equipment owners open a yard and list what they rent, renters pick dates on a calendar that already knows what is booked, and the owner is paid straight into their own Stripe account with the platform's cut split off in the same moment. Paid 1:35pm. Live 4:02pm.
It installs from the browser, no app store. Anyone can browse the yards; renting or opening a yard takes a sign in by emailed code.
Open RigYard →The application came in on a Sunday morning for a different app, one that would post listings to Facebook Marketplace on its own. On the Monday gameplan call, and in writing an hour later, the answer was no: Marketplace has no API for it, and anything that fakes the taps risks the account. An alternative was on the table, and the owner did not want it. Thursday morning at 11:25am a new message: the idea had shifted, because the first one could not be built to the exact model in the owner's head and a half solution was not worth paying for. The new one was an equipment rental marketplace. Owners list, renters book and pay, the platform takes a commission.
Call at 11:45am. Paid at 1:35pm. Live at 4:02pm: owners open a yard and list what they rent with photos, rates, deposit and their own rules; renters search by what they need and how far they will drive, then pick dates on a calendar that already knows what is booked; the platform's cut comes off every rental on its own, at a percentage set in the admin.
An owner opens a yard and lists each machine with photos, a day rate and a week rate, the deposit, and the rules that yard runs by. Renters search by category, city or ZIP, and distance, rent or buy.
Pick the dates and the quote builds itself: days at the rate, delivery if you want it, and the deposit shown separately as held, not charged. Days already booked cannot be picked.
The renter pays the owner straight onto the owner's own Stripe account, and the platform's commission is split off in the same moment. No rental money passes through RigYard. No cash, no side deals: the app is the only way to pay.
Every rental is its own digital file on one rental ID: the money line by line, the deposit labeled on its own, the license, the insurance, the signed agreement, the photos and the history. Documents go up before the owner accepts.
A security deposit on a $340 a day machine is real money, and charging it up front is a hard ask. So the deposit is a card hold, placed at pickup, never charged. Releasing it is a cancel, so it is instant. A damage claim takes only the claimed amount. Card holds lapse after seven days, so on a long rental the app places a fresh hold before the old one expires, new one first, then lets the old one go. If a hold is refused, the owner sees it with the reason and a retry. The rental agreement says all of this in plain words, and the renter signs it in the app before the owner hands over the keys.