Servio

A services marketplace has three audiences with different needs. Customers want a fair price fast. Pros want relevant leads and reliable payouts. The operator needs commission, disputes and cash collected on site to reconcile.

It had to work on the web and on Android, in Persian and English, with Iranian payment and SMS providers, and still install on ordinary shared hosting.

I built one Laravel API behind three clients: a Next.js web app (public site, customer app, provider workspace and admin panel), an Expo Android app, and the admin itself. Requests, offers and bookings are enum-based state machines. A queued matching job uses haversine distance to send each request only to pros whose service radius covers it. Simple jobs can also be booked instantly at a fixed price.

All money moves through one row-locked wallet ledger: commission, cash collected on site, cancellation fees, refunds, referral bonuses and payouts. Realtime chat and tracking run on Reverb WebSockets, with a polling fallback on shared hosting. Payments and SMS sit behind pluggable interfaces, and the web app is a static export served by Laravel, so no Node.js is needed in production.

Version 1.0.0 shipped as a complete marketplace package with a web installer, Iran and US demo data and a full screenshot set. This is also the product where my design language took shape. Its soft cards, gradient headers and amber key actions now carry through my other products, including this site.