Showami runs the same shape of marketplace Tour Dash does: a licensed agent who cannot cover a showing pays another licensed agent to cover it. Their entire business is the cut they take in the middle. They publish the whole fee ladder on their pricing page, so the take rate is not a guess. It is about 36% on the showings agents actually book, and it falls to 8% at the top of the range.
Signing up is free and there is no monthly fee, no minimum, and no contract. An agent posts a showing and picks what they are willing to pay for it, anywhere from $45 to $400. Showing agents in the area get notified and either accept that number or send back a counter-proposal. Showami sits in the payment flow and keeps the difference between what one agent pays and what the other receives.
The rate picker is doing real work here. Short notice, a long drive, or a 7pm showing in traffic all push the number up, and letting the showing agent counter means the awkward jobs still get covered instead of sitting unclaimed. Showami advertises a 2.7 minute average pickup time and a 97% acceptance rate. Those are their marketing numbers and nobody outside the company can verify them, but the mechanism that would produce them is sound.
Everything else they sell sits on top of this one loop.
Their pricing page ships a proposal calculator, and the page source carries the complete payout table behind it. None of the numbers below are inferred or estimated.
All 17 selectable rates, evenly spaced in the order they appear in Showami's own dropdown. Hover any point for its split.
| Buyer's agent pays | Showing agent gets | Showami keeps | Take rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| $45 | $28 | $17 | 37.8% |
| $50 | $32 | $18 | 36.0% |
| $55 | $37 | $18 | 32.7% |
| $60 | $41 | $19 | 31.7% |
| $70 | $51 | $19 | 27.1% |
| $80 | $60 | $20 | 25.0% |
| $90 | $69 | $21 | 23.3% |
| $100 | $79 | $21 | 21.0% |
| $120 | $98 | $22 | 18.3% |
| $135 | $113 | $22 | 16.3% |
| $150 | $127 | $23 | 15.3% |
| $175 | $151 | $24 | 13.7% |
| $200 | $175 | $25 | 12.5% |
| $250 | $223 | $27 | 10.8% |
| $300 | $271 | $29 | 9.7% |
| $350 | $319 | $31 | 8.9% |
| $400 | $367 | $33 | 8.2% |
Two things fall out of that table. First, the cut is close to flat in dollars: $17 at the bottom of the range and $33 at the top, which works out to roughly $16 plus 4% of the price. It behaves like a fixed transaction fee, not a percentage commission. Second, because it is flat, the take rate collapses as the price climbs, from 37.8% on a $45 showing to 8.2% on a $400 one.
A flat 36% on a $400 showing would be $144, and both agents would immediately find a reason to settle it off-platform.
The taper is a defense, not a discount. Marketplaces leak at the high end, where the fee finally gets big enough to be worth the hassle of going around it. Tapering keeps the expensive jobs worth running through Showami, and it costs them very little because the expensive jobs are the rare ones.
The pricing page says the showing agent "receives 97% of that payment (the remaining 3% covers our bank transaction fees)." That sentence is accurate, and it is about tips. It says nothing about the showing fee itself.
The calculator makes the real split visible if you read it closely. Its default state is a $50 showing plus a $10 tip, $60 total, a Showami fee of $18.30, and the showing agent earning $41.70. That $18.30 is $18.00 taken off the showing, which is 36%, plus $0.30 taken off the tip, which is 3%.
It is easy to leave that page believing the platform takes 3%. Worth noting as a positioning tactic whatever we decide about our own number.
Secondary revenue, built for retention and account expansion rather than margin. There are three products:
Platinum's real job is widening what counts as a billable request. Open houses, inspections, appraisals, lock box runs and property condition assessments all become jobs that carry the same per-transaction fee. The $75 is almost incidental next to the volume it unlocks.
Tour Dash's Settings page currently tells agents "We charge a 5% platform fee on
all completed bookings" (src/pages/Settings.tsx). Against Showami's 36% at the
median, that is not a competitive edge. 5% of a $50 showing is $2.50, which does not cover
card processing on the transaction, let alone support or the cost of running the platform.
There are two honest readings of that gap, and they point the same way:
The structural idea worth taking is the taper rather than the number. A flat percentage punishes the high-value jobs hardest, and those are exactly the ones two agents find it easiest to take off the platform. Whatever rate we land on should shrink as the job gets more expensive.
The counter-proposal is worth copying too. It is the mechanism that keeps a 7pm showing in an outlying area from going unclaimed, and it is cheap to build next to what it does for fill rate.
Everything above comes from pages Showami publishes. The fee ladder is read
directly off the data-showing-cost-scale attribute on their pricing calculator
rather than from a marketing summary, which is why it carries all 17 tiers.
showami.com/pricing · showami.com/brokerage-solution · showami.com/platinum · Showami support: how does pricing work · showami.com
Retrieved 1 September 2026. Tour Dash's own 5% figure is
from src/pages/Settings.tsx in the app repo.