# Dutch rental listings for rental platforms

If you run a platform, app or website with rental listings, the hard part is not displaying them. It is collecting them from hundreds of sources and keeping them current.

## The problem with many sources

Dutch rentals are published by agencies, housing associations and listing sites, each with its own format and its own changes over time. Building and maintaining a connection per source is a project by itself. WoningMe does that work and offers the result through one API and one schema.

## A typical integration

1. **Define searches** for the areas and segments your platform serves, for example one per city.
2. **Load listings** from the properties endpoint, sorted and paginated with a cursor, into your own database or cache.
3. **Stay current** with an account [webhook](https://woning.me/developer/rental-webhooks) that tells you about each new matching listing.
4. **Link out** to the original listing with `url`, and show the `agent` when it is provided.

## What to keep in mind

- Fields can be `null` when a source does not publish them. Design your listing page for that.
- Rent is in euro cents. Segment flags tell you whether a listing is social, mid-market or private.
- The API is for rentals only, and it is not meant for copying the entire dataset in bulk.

## Commercial use

The Personal plan (€15/month) is intended for personal and non-commercial use, with the limits described in the [documentation](https://woning.me/developer/docs#limits). A rental platform is a commercial use case, and it usually needs different volumes, terms or support than the Personal plan offers.

**Let's talk.** Tell us what you are building and we will look at the possibilities together: [explore collaboration](https://woning.me/en/collaborate).

Meanwhile you can prototype with the Personal plan to see whether the data fits. Start with the [rental listings API guide](https://woning.me/developer/rental-listings-api).

Source: https://woning.me/developer/use-cases/rental-platforms (part of the WoningMe Developer API, https://woning.me/developer)