AltexSoft Rebuilt a Booking System for a Multisite Vacation Rental Business

First of all, we reviewed and optimized the booking engine code. To make it work properly, we did an almost complete rewrite of the frontend while the backend was changed by almost 50 percent. For fault tolerance and higher security, we migrated the product to the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, which restricts access to data and resources for unauthorized users

On the frontend, we redesigned the search filters of the main website to guide users only to those locations where the client’s services were available and let them find exactly what they were looking for. For an even better experience, we embedded search autocomplete functionality. We also implemented server-side rendering that resulted in improved search performance, better SEO, and faster page loading.

We integrated a new, more performant Track PMS API and took a different approach to the synchronization of the booking system database with the PMS. Instead of updating all the inventory content once a day as done previously, we started requesting only those properties whose prices or availability had changed during a certain period of time. This dramatically sped up the update process.

Since all the websites in the client’s system had the same settings, we automated the building and deployment of their infrastructure using IaC (infrastructure as code) tools. This step reduced manual work and supported the growth-through-acquisition strategy simplifying and speeding up launches of new websites. Besides that, we implemented a multi-PMS solution with automapping to fix content inconsistencies. When buying companies in the future, it will help add new destinations and properties from different sources smoothly, avoiding duplications and mistakes.