A Motel Booking Platform On The Cloud Improves The Road-Tripping Experience In Australia

Expertise: Web & Enterprise Portals Reservation & Booking System
Verticals: Travel and Hospitality
Technologies: Cakephp AWS Facebook Login APIGoogle Place APIGoogle Plus Login APIHotelBeds APIWotif API
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Client Overview
A travel company in Australia was looking for a digital product to help travellers book a motel while they are road-tripping. To tap into the Australian motel industry with a market size of AUD $2 billion, the client is managing a web application that streamlines the process of booking motels. We partnered with the client to design its web application and chose CakePHP owing to its capability to accelerate the time to market. Hosted on AWS, the portal helped travellers find economical accommodations nationwide quickly and enabled motel operators to effectively market themselves.
Business Needs
The Client was looking for web development professionals for design and development of a user-friendly, responsive web portal for a traveler to book a motel on the Australian road trip, which can offer

  • Elegant UI along with easy accessibility anytime, anywhere
  • Seamless connection, so the traveler can book motel on the go
  • Assurance of the quality of services
  • Easy for travelers to find plan their travels and find motels in any destination
Strategy & Solution
The web portal has been crafted to offer a seamless user experience and allows managing all the things on the platform. The traveler was able to share their travel plans with other travelers, family members, and friends. The designing team put their best efforts to build a highly feature-rich, interactive platform with unique design as per the client expectations.

Front-end
Our dedicated front-end developers and designers build a responsive web design with unique highly and feature-rich platform as per the client expectations. The front end of the web portal seamlessly allows the travelers to enjoy their journey in a fun way. It offers functionalities as per the set objectives of the client, such as:

  • Motels listing on the website through three vendors: Registered Agent, HotelBeds and Wotif apps
  • A user can easily plan his trip and route without any hassles, book a motel of their choice on the go
  • Easy and fast account creation process
  • BookAMotel account holder can view trip itineraries, save motels to future trips, and apply coupons to his bookings
  • The address and phone number along with motel descriptions can be found on the motel information page for the selected motel right on the web portal

Backend
Our experienced CakePHP development team worked on the project with proper planning, frame applicable online strategies developed a robust, simple, fast and easily accessible platform which committed to:

  • Protect your personal information and maintain the privacy
  • Safe and secure payment gateway for the automation of the payment process
  • Offer AWS managed database services using MySQL
  • The easy and short certification process for hotel beds
  • Offer an integrated reservation structure with booking history, personalized offers, and discounts
  • Traveler booking was easily accessible anytime, anywhere

Development Process
We used an agile development process during the developmental phase of the project under which requirements and solutions evolved through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their context. We follow the procedure for the development of the web portal

  • Analysis of the client objective
  • Using the information gathered from the requirement analysis phase, we put together a plan for the development of web portal like technology, CMS integration, integrate of HotelBeds and Wotif API for motels listing, searching and booking, Google map integration, and payment gateways among others
  • Web designer created one or more prototype designs for the portal. We closely worked with the designer, exchange ideas, until we arrived at the final design for the web portal
  • Our dedicated front-end and backend developers complete the functionality of forms or other scripts, as well last testing for last minute compatibility issues

Business Outcomes
As a result of our best efforts, we were able to develop a robust and easy to use trip planner and motel booking platform with unique features for travelers who love to travel by road and visit exotic locations in Australia. We were able to deal with each of these challenges and delivered the project with all the perfection within the desired time period. The platform is controlled by a highly organized administrator panel and offer:

  • Google Map so users can easily search, plan route and list on the basis of latitude and longitude of the search location
  • Easily accessibility and good value for money
  • The quality and quick delivery of the services
  • The stress-free motel booking process
  • Seamless navigation on the web portal
  • Hassle-free experience of traveling in Australia
  • Enjoyable motel stay with all amenities and luxuries
Client's Speak
It's been a pleasure working with this team. You team has been instrumental in getting our project done on time and within budget.
Wayne Faulkner
CEO, QLD, Australia
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