Challenge
Our Australian based client is one of the world's largest hotel tourism management companies. Their business is providing high-quality services to individuals or groups who desire to travel to fascinating regions around the world. The client’s idea was to facilitate all the travellers with their hotel facilities by extracting the data they entered during registration. With this ideology, the client decided to develop a portal that will automatically store all the information of the traveller or their group and thereby offer them profitable deals along with the package.
During the development of the Hotel Booking System, the key challenges that need to be addressed are
- Development of a web-based solution that is adaptive, customizable, innovative, and capable of catering to the needs of hotel basics.
- Integration of the payment gateway for easy payment.
- Implementation of different filtration and sorting criteria.
- Managing and maintaining updates in different functionality like price, rating, certification, etc.
- Implementation of the search feature based on quotation number and booking number.
- A scalable solution that can maintain and manage the field research details.
- Implementation of the cart functionality, to maintain and manage the booking information.
Expertise
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Tools & Technology
ASP.NET • MVC • C# • WebServices • Visual Studio • Microsoft SQL Server
Solution
Considering the client’s theory of offering both the travel as well as hospitality service, our team of experienced developers started strategizing on how to develop the application. After discussions and agreements, .NET developers at TatvaSoft created Hotel Booking System using cutting edge technology including .NET(C#) and MSSQL.
Accommodation
- Considering the functionality like date, room, persons, a city for booking, etc.
- Availability of amenities like a restaurant, fitness center, air-conditioner, elevator, car parking and much more.
- Sorting for accommodation on the basis of rating, the price per night, refine by city, and numerous other options.
Car Hire
- Managing the different details like pick up country, city, start date, return country, city, end of duration date, etc.
- Filters and sorting criteria on car leasing, car rental, price, etc.
Agency and Agent details
- List of details like name, location details, price along with its commission details, list of all saved quote numbers.
Client Supplier Wizard
- Maintaining a list of agencies, along with their accounting invoice details.
- Contract feature to maintain price listing for different seasons with contract markup for different hotels.
Booking Management System
- Managing features like booking on basis of quotation number, booking cancelation, invoice raise, make payment along with partial payment functionality, booking summary, account details, policies, and fee details.
- Maintaining a list of bookings, quotes, notification and alerts of reminder, group booking, etc.
View Cart
- This functionality keeps track of past and upcoming booking details along with various details of location, services, prices, city details, agent details, etc.
- Extensive features like a listing of the packages for different locations, cruises details, services details, etc. are also included.
Result
TatvaSoft, with its unique software development services offered a centralized Hotel Booking platform system for the client. Apart from the obvious benefits, the client was also able to leverage advantages such as
- Manage hotel information, agency information, and customer information- all at fingertips
- Effortless synchronization of information or data related to hotels
- Provide real-time services to visitors, with commission details from the application
- Ease of handling all types of reservations for individuals, group, party, company, travel agent and more
- Added newer revenue stream to their business
- Larger customer reach and accessibility
- Cutting-edge Technology advancements and its future-benefits