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CediHostel

Marketplace

Book a verified student hostel bed near campus before you arrive, without an agent taking your money.

A booking platform per campus.

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No account. No card. No sales call.

  • Two campuses covered completely
  • 120 verified hostels
  • 3,000 beds booked in one admissions cycle

The problem

Every academic year begins with a scramble.

Students arrive in a city they do not know, sleep on a friend's floor, and hire a runner to find a room, paying an agent fee and often an advance for a bed that turns out to be occupied, filthy or nonexistent.

Hostel owners meanwhile have empty beds in one block and queues at another with no way to match demand.

Who this is for

Students and parents at Legon, KNUST, UCC, UPSA and the private universities, roughly 300,000 tertiary students, plus the hostel owners around each campus.

Find out whether your marketplace is actually liquid

A free campus housing map, published before admissions letters go out, showing every hostel around each campus with verified prices, distances and student reviews. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.

Your marketplace

Computed locally. Nothing leaves your browser.

You need 87 more active suppliers to reach a 85% fill rate.

Liquidity is fragile. It works on good days and fails on busy ones.

Suppliers to add
87
127 total needed
Liquidity score
62/100
Revenue per month
$3,240
$38,880 a year
GMV lost to no-match
$49,500
275 requests

Fill rate

Today45%
Target85%
Requests per supplier
12.5
Matched per month
225
GMV per month
$40,500
Unmatched requests
275

Take this with you

No email required. It is your result.

CediHostel — liquidity check
· 45% fill rate today, 85% target
· Add 87 suppliers to get there
· $49,500 of GMV currently going unmatched each month

Run it yourself: https://cedihostel.com

Method: fill rate is modelled as 1 − e^(−k·supply/demand), with k solved from your current numbers. Each additional supplier covers less incremental demand than the last, which is why fill rate saturates rather than scaling linearly.

How it works

Three steps, and the first one costs nothing.

  1. 1

    Run the free tool

    A free campus housing map, published before admissions letters go out, showing every hostel around each campus with verified…

  2. 2

    See your own numbers

    A booking platform per campus.

  3. 3

    Upgrade only if it earns it

    Keep the free result either way. Move to a paid plan when CediHostel is already doing the work.

What you actually get

Six things that are true on the first day, not on the roadmap.

  1. Verified supply

    Every listing on CediHostel is checked before it appears. No ghost inventory, no bait pricing.

  2. Real availability

    Availability is confirmed at the source, so what you see is what you can actually book.

  3. Protected payments

    Funds are held until the job is confirmed complete. Both sides are covered on every transaction.

  4. Transparent pricing

    The full price up front, including fees. No quote games and no surprises at checkout.

  5. Reviews that survive scrutiny

    Only completed, paid transactions can leave a review, and reviews cannot be bought or removed.

  6. Dispute resolution

    A written process with defined timelines, published openly, applied the same way to everyone.

Questions people actually ask

Do I need to talk to anyone to try this?
No. The free CediHostel tool runs without an account, a card or a call. That is the point of it.
What does it cost?
Pricing is published in full on this page.
Who is this actually for?
Students and parents at Legon, KNUST, UCC, UPSA and the private universities, roughly 300,000 tertiary students, plus the hostel owners around each…
What problem does it solve?
Every academic year begins with a scramble.
Can I get my data out?
Yes. Everything you put in can be exported as CSV or JSON at any time, and deleting your account deletes your data.
Why should I trust the result?
The demand is enormous, concentrated into a few weeks, and entirely unserved by anything except informal agents.

Pricing

Published in full. No “contact us for pricing”, no per-seat surprise on renewal.

Free

The wedge, free forever. Enough to run on.

Free
forever
  • A free campus housing map, published before admissions letters go out, showing every…
  • No credit card
  • Core loop included
  • Community support
Start free

ProPopular

For students and parents at Legon, KNUST, UCC, UPSA and the…

$49
per month
  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited usage
  • Full history and exports
  • Integrations and API access
  • Email support
Start 14-day trial

Scale

For teams that depend on this in production.

$294
per month
  • Everything in Pro
  • SSO and SCIM
  • Audit log and data residency
  • 99.9% uptime SLA
  • Dedicated support channel
Talk to sales

Prices in USD. Cancel any time from the dashboard — no email, no retention call.

Find out whether your marketplace is actually liquid

A free campus housing map, published before admissions letters go out, showing every hostel around each campus with verified prices, distances and student reviews. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.

Open the free tool

It runs in your browser. CediHostel never sees your inputs.