Let's start with the part most comparison pages bury: we are built for different buyers. Showami is an agent-to-agent marketplace — you need a door opened, someone opens it. ShowingMarket is built for the brokerage: your firm gets its own network, your compliance rules enforced at the moment they are due, and a designated broker who can see every job and every payment. If you are an individual agent who needs a door opened and nothing more, Showami's network is the established answer and we would rather say so in the first paragraph. If your broker cares who covered it, what they signed, and how they were paid — that is what we built.
Showami details below are stated as accurately as we can from public information and worded conservatively — always confirm current pricing and features on showami.com before deciding.
| ShowingMarket | Showami | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is built for | Brokerages, and the agents inside them. A firm gets its own network, its own compliance rules enforced at each step, and a designated broker who can see every job. | Individual agents arranging cover for a showing, agent to agent. |
| Coverage area | Available to licensed agents nationwide. Density is highest in the Seattle metro, where two Keller Williams offices have onboarded hundreds of agents. | Operates across a wide, multi-state US footprint — the established national option in this category. |
| What the designated broker sees | Every job their agents post or claim, the forms signed against each one, and the money. Compliance requirements are enforced server-side at posting, claim, check-in, check-out or payout, with a versioned rule history and a per-assignment audit trail. | Not a brokerage-facing product; supervision and record-keeping stay with the firm to arrange separately. |
| Who sets the price | The posting agent, per request: anything up to $1,000, including nothing. Covering agents can counter-offer; the poster picks. | Per-showing pricing with rates published on their site; structure varies by showing type and market. |
| What the covering agent keeps | 90% of the posted fee, transferred via Stripe when the poster approves the completed showing — instant to an eligible debit card. | Showing agents receive a set portion of the showing price; see their current published rates for the exact split. |
| Showing verification | GPS-stamped check-in and check-out at the property, presence sampling during the visit, and a safety timer with alerts. | Publishes a license-verification step at sign-up; on-site verification features differ — check their current product documentation. |
| When money moves | Card authorized at posting, captured only after the poster approves the completed, GPS-stamped showing. Cancel while broadcasting → hold released in full. | Payment is collected around the showing request; see their published terms for cancellation specifics. |
| Open house tools | Hosted open houses include a free QR sign-in sheet — attendee contacts stay with the host; the listing side gets names and feedback. | Open house showings are a supported request type; a built-in digital sign-in product is not the core offering. |
| Client protection | A non-solicitation agreement is signed at every claim, and feedback is delivered through the platform for your client file. | Also structured around the requesting agent keeping the client, with its own agreement terms. |
| Brokerage / team features | Free organization accounts: your branding, one join code for the roster, and broadcast control (keep requests in-house, give your agents a timed first look, or open them to the network). | Primarily an agent-to-agent service; check with them directly for team-level offerings. |
| Cost to join | Free on both sides — no subscription, no lead fees. You pay (or earn) per completed showing only. | Free to sign up as a showing agent; requesting agents pay per showing. |
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If you are shopping the category rather than deciding between the two of us, this is the rest of the field. Showami's reach is the thing to beat, and the honest filter for everything below is density where you actually work — the best-designed marketplace is useless in a city where no covering agents are active.
Offered in the Illinois market, with a task menu wider than showings — paperwork, key drops, earnest money, closings. The booking agent pays the platform, so the covering agent keeps the full posted fee. On payout that genuinely beats us; we take 10%.
An on-demand app for showings, open houses, lockbox and sign runs, and property checks. Unusually for this category it pitches brokerages and property managers as well as individual agents, which makes it the closest thing to a direct rival on our own ground. Their site publishes no pricing — ask them. Their testimonials reference Atlanta, Charlotte and New York; a service area is not stated.
Us, and we are built for the brokerage rather than the individual agent: your firm's own network, your compliance rules enforced server-side at the step they are due, and a designated broker who can see every job, every signed form and every payment. GPS-stamped check-in and check-out, a safety timer, payment captured only on your approval, and 90% of the fee to the covering agent. Free for brokerages.
The oldest answer, and still the right one for a high-volume team: dedicated availability, consistent quality, nobody taking a cut, supervision entirely yours. You pay in salary, management and idle hours between showings. The break-even is volume — price it against your actual monthly showing count before choosing any marketplace.
All four compared at length, including where each one beats us, in our roundup of the best showing agent services.
Free to join, priced per showing, and the fee is always visible first.