Project Description
GoGallivanting is a Campervan rental UK-based startup platform revolutionising the way people discover, book, and experience motorhome and campervan travel. Built by owners for owners, the platform is a purpose-driven marketplace designed to connect adventure seekers with trusted vehicle owners across the country. More than just a rental platform, GoGallivanting represents a growing community for Peer-to-peer campervan hire and movement that promotes flexible, accessible, and experience-led travel.
By combining smart technology, intuitive design, and trust-first features, and built on the Sharetribe marketplace platform, GoGallivanting enables seamless journeys for renters while empowering owners to grow their rental business with confidence.
Marketplace Features:
Dynamic Home Page:
The dynamic home page acts as the primary discovery and engagement layer of the GoGallivanting platform. Instead of a static layout, the home page intelligently adapts based on user behaviour, location, seasonal demand, and platform priorities. Featured listings, boosted vehicles, trending destinations, and personalised recommendations are surfaced dynamically to guide users toward relevant options faster. This approach improves first impressions, reduces search friction, and significantly increases conversion rates while giving owners premium visibility in high-traffic sections.Dynamic Listings for Featured & Boosted Vehicles:
GoGallivanting enables owners to elevate their listings through featured and boosted placements that are dynamically distributed across the marketplace. These listings appear prominently in search results, curated sections, and discovery modules, ensuring higher exposure during key decision moments. This system benefits renters by showcasing high-quality and trusted vehicles while offering owners a clear path to stand out in a competitive marketplace. For the platform, it unlocks sustainable monetisation without compromising user experience.
Owner Hit Boost:
The Owner Hit Boost feature gives owners full control over their listing visibility. With a single action, owners can temporarily boost their listing to gain priority placement across the platform. This is particularly valuable during peak travel seasons, last-minute availability, or when launching a new vehicle. Hit Boost empowers owners to actively manage demand while helping GoGallivanting maintain a dynamic, demand-responsive marketplace.Secure Transactions, Vehicle Handover & Dispute Management:
Trust and transparency are central to GoGallivanting’s Motorhome rental experience. The platform supports secure transaction deposits that protect both renters and owners throughout the booking process. A structured vehicle handover workflow ensures clear documentation at the start and end of each rental. In case of issues, a built-in dispute management form allows users to raise concerns with supporting details. This end-to-end transaction flow reduces risk, improves accountability, and builds long-term trust within the community.
Stripe Identity Verification:
To maintain a safe and credible marketplace, GoGallivanting integrates Stripe Identity Verification as part of the owner onboarding process. This ensures that vehicle owners are verified before listing, significantly reducing the risk of fraud and misuse. Verified identities increase renter confidence and strengthen the overall integrity of the platform, making it a trusted environment for peer-to-peer vehicle rentals.Calculate Your Earnings:
The Calculate Your Earnings feature provides owners with real-time revenue insights before and after listing their vehicles. By factoring in availability, pricing, and seasonal demand, owners can clearly understand earning potential and adjust their strategy accordingly. This transparency helps owners price competitively, plan availability more effectively, and view their vehicle as a viable income-generating asset.
Real-Time Messaging:
Real-time messaging enables seamless, secure communication between renters and owners directly within the platform. Users can clarify vehicle details, availability, pickup arrangements, and special requests without leaving GoGallivanting. The intuitive messaging UI reduces response time, builds trust, and significantly improves booking success rates by eliminating communication barriers.Wishlist & Favourites:
The Wishlist and Favourites feature allows renters to save vehicles they like and revisit them later. This supports longer booking consideration cycles, especially for high-value rentals such as motorhomes and campervans. For the platform, wishlists drive repeat visits, higher engagement, and improved conversion rates while giving insight into user preferences and demand trends.
Real-Time Messaging:
Real-time messaging enables seamless, secure communication between renters and owners directly within the platform. Users can clarify vehicle details, availability, pickup arrangements, and special requests without leaving GoGallivanting. The intuitive messaging UI reduces response time, builds trust, and significantly improves booking success rates by eliminating communication barriers.Dynamic Listing UI/UX:
GoGallivanting’s listing interface is built with a dynamic UI/UX that adapts to each vehicle’s data. Pricing, availability, seasonal rules, insurance coverage, and add-ons are presented clearly and contextually. This ensures renters can make informed decisions quickly while allowing owners to manage complex listing information without technical complexity.
Smart Listing Recommendations:
The platform uses engagement-based intelligence to recommend listings to users. Factors such as views, clicks, saves, and interaction patterns help surface vehicles that are most relevant and high-performing. This improves discovery for renters while ensuring deserving listings gain visibility organically, creating a balanced and fair marketplace ecosystem.Insurance Cover & Document Upload:
Insurance transparency is a critical trust factor for vehicle rentals. GoGallivanting allows owners to upload and manage insurance documents directly within their listings. This ensures compliance with platform requirements and reassures renters that vehicles are adequately covered, reducing uncertainty and increasing booking confidence.
Availability Management & Calendar Control:
GoGallivanting offers advanced availability tools that give owners full control over when their vehicles can be booked, while preventing conflicts and double bookings.Date Blocking:
Owners can block unavailable periods by selecting a start and end date and marking them as unavailable. Each blocked range can include a short label such as “Private booking” or “Maintenance.” Blocked dates appear in muted red at 30% opacity and automatically override all seasonal and special pricing rules, ensuring absolute availability accuracy.Calendar Import:
Owners can import availability from external platforms using a read-only .ics file. This prevents overlapping bookings without enabling two-way sync. If an imported date clashes with an existing GoGallivanting booking, the system clearly alerts the owner, allowing quick resolution.
Seasonal Pricing Management:
Seasonal pricing enables owners to align their rates with real-world demand patterns. Owners can select date ranges and categorise them as Peak (Gold), Shoulder (Blue), or Off-Peak (Silver). Visual colour coding at 30% opacity makes seasonal blocks easy to interpret at a glance. Owners can edit pricing blocks without deleting them and reset the entire calendar if needed. Importantly, blocked dates always take precedence, ensuring pricing logic remains accurate and reliable.
GoPilot Lite – Smart Owner Onboarding:
GoPilot Lite is integrated at the very beginning of the owner onboarding journey to reduce setup time and friction. Owners can add up to three external links, upload calendars, submit insurance documents, and follow a guided onboarding flow. An intermediate step allows owners to choose between manual setup or assisted onboarding through GoPilot. This structured approach improves listing quality, speeds up time-to-market, and ensures a smoother onboarding experience for new owners.Conclusion:
GoGallivanting combines powerful marketplace technology with a human-first approach to travel. By supporting owners with flexible pricing, visibility tools, secure transactions, and simplified onboarding—while offering renters trust, clarity, and ease—the platform is building a scalable, community-driven ecosystem for modern road travel across the UK.
