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Travel and hospitality

Travel and hospitality software development

We build booking, availability and guest systems for hotels, tour operators and travel firms. Most travel and hospitality software development comes back to one question: how many rooms or seats do you really have left? The same room is on sale on your site, with agents and on marketplaces all at once, and getting that count wrong costs you either way.

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Availability that stays right across every channel

Booking, availability and guest systems built to stop overbooking and empty rooms.

Systems we build

  • Booking enginesSearch and checkout that hold up
  • Availability and ratesOne source, published to every channel
  • Channel connectionsLinks to agents and marketplaces
  • Guest appsGuests change bookings without calling
  • Operations screensArrivals, housekeeping and staffing at a glance
  • Dynamic pricingRate rules that respond to demand
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For hotels and operators

Travel and hospitality systems we build

Booking engines

Search and checkout that stay fast on a phone, even on the morning your sale email goes out.

Availability and rates

One place that knows what's free and at what price, sending the same answer to every channel.

Channel connections

Connections to the agents, marketplaces and distribution systems that sell for you.

Guest apps and portals

Guests check their booking, make changes and find arrival details without having to phone you.

Operations screens

Today's arrivals, housekeeping and staffing on one screen for the people running the day.

Dynamic pricing support

Prices that move with demand and how far ahead people book, within limits you set.

Why availability is the hard part

When one room is on sale in five places, two things can go wrong. You oversell it, and a guest arrives to find you've moved them to a pricier hotel down the road at your expense. Or you undersell it, because a channel still thinks it's taken, and it stays empty. In both cases the cause is the same: somewhere, the availability figure is slightly out of date.

Then there's the way people book. Demand comes in bursts after a campaign, when school holidays are announced or when the weather turns. A system that copes on a normal Tuesday can still fall over on the busiest day of your year.

Payments, pricing and guests

Travel rules the system enforces

  • Payment card security. Card details are handled by your payment provider, for deposits and for balances taken later.
  • Consumer travel rules. Cancellation, refund and package rules vary from country to country, and the system applies the right ones automatically.
  • Price transparency. The price a guest sees in search is the price they pay at checkout, compulsory charges included.
  • Guest data protection. Passport, address and payment details are kept only as long as the booking and the law require.
  • Accessibility. We build to WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), so guests who need an accessible room or seat can book one easily.

Systems we usually connect to

Distribution systems and travel agentsProperty and reservation systemsPayment providers and walletsChannel managers and marketplacesMessaging and review platformsFinance and revenue reporting

Your booking engine, channel manager, property system and payment provider can usually stay put while we build around them. If one does need replacing, you'll decide that knowing the full cost, before any work on it starts. Building an app for your guests? Our guide to native or cross platform app development helps you pick the right way.

Planned around your season

From inventory audit to first booking

  1. Find the inventory truth

    We work out which system should hold the official availability count and where today's numbers start to disagree.

    Week 1 to 2

  2. Publish outward

    Availability goes out from that one source to every channel, so nobody has to compare channels against each other by hand.

    Week 2 to 6

  3. Build the booking path

    We build search, room or seat choice and payment, then load test them against the traffic from your own busiest campaigns.

    Week 6 to 13

  4. Launch out of season

    We go live in a quiet period, when a mistake costs little, and keep a close eye on the first busy weekend.

    Week 13 onward

Most travel projects fall within these ranges. Your peak season sets the real pace, because launches wait for a quiet spell, and so does the number of channels and suppliers we need to connect. See how we plan and run projects for more detail.

At the front desk and online

What changes for guests and staff

Less overbooking

With one availability count feeding every channel, most double bookings caused by out of date channel data disappear.

More direct bookings

When booking on a phone is quick, guests who would have gone through an agent book with you instead.

Calmer arrival days

The front desk can see who's arriving, which rooms are ready and who's on shift at a glance.

From operators and hoteliers

Questions hotels and operators ask

Usually, yes. Most channels and distribution systems offer an interface we can connect to. We build a connector for each, so you update availability in one place, not channel by channel.

We test for it well before the date, using your own peak figures. We also agree with you which parts can slow down under heavy load, so the booking path keeps working even if something less important struggles.

Often you don't. If it stores reservations correctly, we connect to it and build the booking pages and channel updates around it.

Tired of rooms selling twice or not at all?

Tell us how you sell today, and we'll suggest where to start before your next busy season.

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