Aria Hospitality

Multi-property booking engine

Direct booking engine and channel-manager integration for a portfolio of independent boutique hotels.

Client

Confidential client

Duration

10–12 weeks

Our role

Product strategy, design and full-stack engineering

Concept

Hospitality · Aria Hospitality

Challenge

The team needed a hospitality solution that multi-property booking engine — without the fragility of stitched-together tools or the overhead of a full custom platform on day one.

Approach

We ran a focused discovery, defined the smallest end-to-end slice that would prove the model, and built on Next.js + Stripe so the platform could grow without a rewrite.

Outcome

A concept product with clear metrics, a documented architecture, and a delivery cadence the internal team can sustain.

Objectives

What we set out to achieve together.

Establish a scalable hospitality foundation aligned to the business model
Ship a production-ready experience that multi-property booking engine
Instrument analytics, observability and quality gates from day one
Hand over documentation, playbooks and support pathways for the internal team

Tech stack

The tools chosen to keep the platform reliable, observable and easy to evolve.

Next.js
Stripe
Redis

Milestones

A phased delivery designed to de-risk each stage.

1
Week 1–2
Discovery & architecture
Stakeholder interviews, competitive review, information architecture and technical blueprint approved.
2
Week 3–5
Design system & core flows
Brand-aligned design system, high-fidelity flows for the primary journeys, and accessibility baseline.
3
Week 6–9
Build & integration
Implementation across Next.js, Stripe, Redis, with automated testing and staging environments.
4
Week 10–12
Launch & handover
Performance, security and SEO audit, phased rollout, monitoring dashboards, and team enablement.