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Keep boards, pieces and approvals
in one staging and design app.

Tell Netiva how you stage homes and it builds a web app that plans each room, tracks every rented piece and collects listing agent approvals before install day.

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Starter prompt

Build a home staging web app for a company that stages vacant and occupied listings for real estate agents. Each project has a property address, a client email, a staging type, an install date, a term-end date and a destage date. Each project has rooms with a mood board image, design notes and an approval status. Keep an inventory of pieces with a tag number, category, photo, dimensions, replacement value and status. The crew plans pieces per room and scans each tag at load-out and again at destage. Agents sign in to approve each room or request changes.

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Overview

Who this staging and design app is for

Home stagers and designers who work with listing agents run every property as a small project: a consultation, a design for each room, a truckload of furniture pulled from the warehouse and a destage date nobody can predict. Most of it lives in phone photos, text threads and a clipboard pull sheet, so no one can say which console table is free next Tuesday. A staging and design app built with Netiva gives each home its rooms, boards and placed pieces, lets agents approve designs online and keeps a before-and-after gallery ready for your next pitch.

Key features

What your staging and design app can do

  • Room-by-room mood boards

    Each room in a project gets its own board with the inspiration image, the palette and finishes, the pieces you plan to place and notes for the crew, so an agent can picture the finished room before anything moves.

    • Rooms linked to their project, from entry to primary bedroom
    • Planned pieces shown on the board with their inventory photos
    • Room dimensions and install notes kept with the design
    • Boards for occupied homes that list what the seller should remove or store

  • Staging inventory by tag

    Every sofa, rug, lamp and piece of art gets a tag number, a photo and a status, so you can see what’s on the warehouse racks, what’s promised to a design and what’s sitting in a staged home right now.

    • Phone-camera scan of the tag label at load-out and at destage
    • Saved views for available, reserved, on site, in cleaning or repair and retired
    • Placement history for each piece, by project and room
    • Pieces flagged when they come back damaged or not at all

  • Agent and seller sign-off

    Listing agents and homeowners sign in to a page that shows only their own projects, review each room board and approve it or ask for changes before the truck is loaded.

    • Approve or request changes per room, with a comment
    • An email to you when a board is approved or sent back
    • A reminder email to the listing agent before the rental term ends
    • Install and destage dates shown on the client’s project page

  • Before-and-after gallery

    Finished projects become public pages that set the empty room beside the staged one, so the next agent you pitch sees your work on your own site instead of in a camera roll.

    • One gallery page per project, built from its rooms
    • Room captions drafted in bulk from your design notes by the collection assistant
    • Filters by room type and by vacant or occupied staging
    • Projects stay hidden until you mark them ready to show
Data model

The collections behind it

Netiva keeps your records in built-in collections. Here’s a starting structure — the agent adapts it to your prompt, and you can change it any time.

Projects

One record per property you stage, with its client, dates and where it is in the job.

  • Property address (required) Text
  • Client email (required) The listing agent or homeowner who signs in to review this project Text
  • Staging type (required) Vacant, Occupied or Consultation only Text
  • Status (required) Consultation, Design, Approved, Installed, Extended, Destage booked, Closed Text
  • Install date Date
  • Term ends End of the rental term in your agreement; move it when the agent extends Date
  • Destage date Date
  • Gallery status (required) Hidden, Waiting on photo permission or Shown Text

Rooms

Each room you design within a project, with its board, approval and photos.

  • Project (required) Relation to Projects
  • Room (required) Living room, dining room, primary bedroom… Text
  • Mood board Main inspiration image or collage; add image fields for more Image
  • Design notes Palette, finishes, room dimensions and install notes Paragraph
  • Approval (required) Draft, Sent to client, Approved or Changes requested Text
  • Caption Gallery caption for the before-and-after page Text
  • Before photo Image
  • After photo Image

Pieces

Every item you own and rent out, from sofas and beds to art, lamps and accessory bins.

  • Tag number (required) The code on the piece’s barcode label Text
  • Name (required) For example, gray linen sofa Text
  • Category (required) Seating, beds, dining, rugs, art, lighting, accessories… Text
  • Photo (required) Image
  • Dimensions Width × depth × height in inches Text
  • Replacement value Used to total losses in the damage report Number
  • Status (required) Available, Reserved, On site, In cleaning or repair, Retired Text
  • Warehouse spot Aisle, rack or bin Text

Placements

Which piece went into which room, when it left the warehouse and how it came back.

  • Piece (required) Relation to Pieces
  • Room (required) Also gives the placement its project and dates Relation to Rooms
  • Loaded out Set when the tag is scanned onto the truck Date & time
  • Returned Set when the tag is scanned back in at the warehouse Date & time
  • Return condition Good, Needs cleaning, Damaged or Missing Text
  • Crew member Filled in from the signed-in crew member Text
  • Notes Paragraph

Required field. Types are Netiva collection field types.

Screens

Pages and screens to start with

A typical first version. Ask the agent for more, or annotate the preview to change any of them.

  • Projects board

    Every staging job grouped by status, with install, term-end and destage dates side by side and homes past their original term at the top.

    Your team

  • Room board

    The mood board, design notes and planned pieces for one room, with its approval status and any changes the client asked for.

    Your team

  • Inventory

    Pieces filtered by category, status and warehouse spot, where each one is placed now and what’s free for a given install date.

    Your team

  • Load-out and destage

    A phone checklist of planned pieces by room; the crew scans each tag onto the truck and again when it’s back at the warehouse.

    Your team

  • Client review

    Agents and homeowners see only their own projects, open each room board and approve it or request changes with a comment.

    Signed-in users

  • Gallery project

    A public before-and-after page for one finished project, with photos and captions room by room.

    Public
How it works

From prompt to a live staging and design app

  1. Describe how you stage

    Tell Netiva whether you stage vacant homes, occupied homes or both, how your rental terms work and who signs off on designs. It drafts collections for projects, rooms, pieces and placements.

  2. Tag your warehouse

    Enter furniture, art and accessories in the collection grid with photos and tag numbers, or have the collection assistant draft rows and tidy categories and dimensions across the whole list.

  3. Run a past job through it

    Set up one home you’ve already staged in the live preview: its rooms, boards and load-out list. Annotate any screen that needs work and Netiva reworks it.

  4. Invite agents and go live

    Publish in one click, share the sign-in link with the agents you work with and put the gallery on your own domain from the Starter plan. Every change after that is checkpointed.

Why Netiva

Netiva vs a traditional build

Building a staging and design app with Netiva compared with a traditional build
Criterion With Netiva Traditional build
Design approvals A signed-in page per project where the listing agent approves each room or sends it back with a comment Mood board PDFs sent by email, with the agent’s feedback spread across texts and calls
Tracking pieces between homes Tags scanned onto the truck and back in at destage, so each piece shows its current home and room A printed pull sheet and a best guess about which lamp went to which listing
Getting started Describe what you need in chat and watch it take shape in a live preview Hire developers, or stitch together templates, plugins and a hosting plan
Content and data Built-in collections with nine field types, bound straight to your pages Set up and connect a separate database or CMS
Making changes Ask the agent; every change is checkpointed and reversible File a ticket, wait for a sprint, redeploy
Hosting and domain Global hosting and automatic SSL; connect a custom domain from the Starter plan Buy hosting, then install and renew SSL certificates yourself
Code ownership Clean production code you own and can export Locked into a template, plugin or agency setup
Examples

Ways teams use it

  • A solo stager with a storage unit

    Staging a few vacant listings a month, the owner checks which beds and dining sets are free for an install date before quoting, then scans each tag while loading the van so nothing is left behind at destage.

  • A staging company with a warehouse crew

    Several crews install and destage in the same week. The office sees which homes are past their rental term, which agents asked for an extension and which pieces came back needing cleaning or repair.

  • A designer offering occupied-home consultations

    For homes the sellers still live in, the designer builds room boards listing what to remove, rearrange or buy. The homeowner signs in to work through them, and the after photos go into the gallery once the listing goes live.

Good to know

Before you build

  • Photo rights for your gallery

    Listing photos generally belong to the photographer who took them, not to you or the agent. Ask for permission or a license before posting them in your gallery, or take your own after shots.

  • Virtually staged images need a label

    Netiva doesn’t create or edit images. Since January 1, 2026, California has required any listing ad with a virtually staged photo to carry a conspicuous disclosure by the image and a link to the original — including ads you run on the broker’s behalf. MLS rules may add more.

  • Contracts and damage stay with you

    The app records where each piece went and the condition it came back in. Your staging agreement, rental fees, insurance and any damage charges are still handled under your own contract and accounts.

  • Enter your inventory yourself

    Netiva doesn’t import an existing inventory spreadsheet. Start with the large pieces that go out on every job — sofas, beds, dining sets, rugs and art — and add accessories as grouped bins later.

FAQ

Questions about building a staging and design app

How do agents and homeowners approve a room design?

Each client signs in with the email on their project and sees only their own homes. Every room board shows the inspiration image, design notes and the pieces you plan to place. The client approves the room or requests changes with a comment, the status updates on your projects board and you get an email, so install day is never booked on a design nobody has seen.

Can the app show which pieces are free for an install date?

Yes, when you ask Netiva for it. Each placement links a piece to a room and project, and each project has an install date and a destage date. The inventory screen can then leave out pieces already on site or reserved for a project whose dates overlap the new install, so you quote from what’s actually on the racks.

Does the app track rental terms and extensions?

Each project stores its install date and the date the rental term in your agreement ends. A scheduled job can email the listing agent a set number of days before that date with a link to request an extension or book the destage. When the agent extends, you move the term-end date, and the projects board shows which homes are running past their original term.

Can my install crew use it on a phone at the house?

Yes. Netiva builds web apps that open in the phone’s browser, with nothing to install. Crew members sign in, open the load-out list for the day’s project and scan each tag with the phone’s camera as pieces go onto the truck. At destage, scanning them back in records the return time and lets the crew note anything damaged or missing.

Can the app create virtually staged photos?

No. Netiva doesn’t generate or edit images, and the apps it builds have no built-in AI. If you use a virtual staging service, upload its finished images to the room and ask Netiva for a virtually staged flag and a field for the original photo, or call the provider’s API with your own key if it offers one. Keep the unaltered photo, because California requires listing ads to disclose altered images and link to the originals.

Can I publish the before-and-after gallery on my own domain?

Yes. You can build and preview the whole app on the free plan, and custom domains are available from the Starter plan. Netiva handles hosting and SSL, and you connect the domain by adding the DNS records it lists at your registrar. The code is yours to read or export, and every change is checkpointed. Compare current plans on Netiva’s pricing page.

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Drafted with AI assistance from Netiva’s product pages and reviewed by the Netiva team. Example data models, screens and prompts are illustrative starting points, not customer projects.

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