Based on your roadmap, I’d evaluate the three platforms primarily around your long-term goal rather than just your immediate rental needs.

For Phase 1, where you’re renting your own equipment, all three can cover the fundamentals: inventory, availability, bookings, payments, and rental orders. Booqable and Reservety are particularly suited to getting a single rental business online quickly.

However, your Phase 2 requirement changes the decision significantly. Once you start allowing other rental businesses to list their equipment, you’ll need true multi-vendor functionality: separate vendor accounts, vendor inventory, vendor dashboards, commissions, payouts, permissions, vendor onboarding, and marketplace-level administration.

That makes YoRent worth investigating first because it is designed around the rental marketplace model rather than only a single rental operator.

Before committing, though, I would test the platform with a small proof of concept. Create your own inventory, process a real booking, test payment and deposit handling, then create a second vendor and verify that the vendor can independently manage inventory and bookings.

I would also pay particular attention to payment infrastructure. Since you’re operating locally, confirm that the platform supports the payment methods you actually intend to use, including your preferred Kenyan payment gateway/M-Pesa flow, as well as vendor payouts, commissions, refunds, and security deposits.

My approach would therefore be:

**Phase 1:** Validate the rental business with your own inventory.

**Phase 2:** Introduce verified third-party vendors.

**Phase 3:** Automate commissions, vendor payouts, disputes, and marketplace operations.

If the intention is to build a serious marketplace rather than simply put your existing rental business online, I would prioritize the platform that can support Phase 2 without requiring you to rebuild the entire system later.