Case Study
StayPilot
StayPilot is a hotel booking platform that connects guests, hotels, and operations teams through streamlined search, reservations, payments, and property management.
- 5.5 MonthsDelivery Timeline
- 7 SpecialistsProject Team
- 12 IntegrationsConnected Interfaces
Project Overview
StayPilot is a hotel booking platform designed to simplify how guests discover hotels, compare rooms, make reservations, and manage stays. Guests can create profiles, search properties, review room details, check availability, complete payments, and access reservation information. Hotel teams can manage properties, rooms, pricing, availability, bookings, and guest information through dedicated interfaces. Operations teams can monitor reservations, payments, properties, and platform activity from an administrative dashboard. The product was built to connect guest and hotel workflows through one structured system. Abhineh Infotech supported product planning, UI UX design, development, integrations, testing, and deployment.
Project Idea
StayPilot was designed to bring hotel discovery, room availability, reservations, payments, and property operations into one connected booking experience.
Hotel booking involves several decisions before a reservation is completed, including property discovery, room selection, dates, guest details, pricing, availability, and payment. StayPilot needed to simplify these steps while giving hotel teams practical controls for managing rooms, reservations, and changing availability.
Abhineh Infotech connected hotel listings, room inventory, availability, reservations, payments, guest profiles, and administrative workflows through a shared architecture. This helped booking information move consistently between guest interfaces, hotel management tools, and backend services while maintaining clear responsibilities for each participant.
The product principle focused on clarity, speed, and confidence. Guests needed easy access to room information, pricing, dates, and reservation status. Hotel teams needed straightforward controls for availability and bookings. Clear navigation and consistent interface patterns supported both sides throughout the reservation journey.
Challenges
StayPilot supported guests, hotel staff, property managers, and internal operations teams with different access requirements. Guests needed simple discovery and booking journeys, while hotel teams required detailed controls for rooms, availability, pricing, reservations, and guest information.
Hotel booking data can change frequently across room inventory, availability, pricing, reservation dates, guest details, payment records, and booking status. The platform needed structured data handling to keep information consistent across search results, room pages, booking flows, hotel interfaces, and administrative tools.
Booking demand can increase significantly during weekends, holidays, seasonal periods, and promotional campaigns. StayPilot required efficient APIs, caching, scalable services, and reliable cloud infrastructure to keep property search, availability checks, booking, payment, and reservation workflows responsive during higher activity.
Project Milestones We Achieved
| Milestone | Tasks | Timeline | Responsible |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery and Planning | Mapped guest, hotel, and operations journeys, room requirements, availability rules, booking workflows, payment needs, integrations, and architecture. | Month 1 | Product and Engineering Team |
| UI/UX Design | Designed hotel discovery, room details, availability, booking, payment, property management, reservation, and administrative interfaces. | Month 2 | UI UX Design Team |
| Core Development | Built authentication, profiles, hotel listings, room management, availability, reservations, payments, APIs, and dashboard foundations. | Month 3 to 4 | Application Development Team |
| Integrations and Testing | Connected hotel, payment, notification, and booking services while validating availability, reservation, and transaction workflows. | Month 5 | Integration and QA Team |
| Launch and Optimization | Prepared production infrastructure, completed final validation, monitored booking activity, resolved issues, and refined guest and hotel workflows. | Month 5.5 | Engineering and Delivery Team |
Project Features
StayPilot combines hotel discovery, room availability, reservations, payments, guest management, and property operations in one structured booking platform.
Guest Signup and Profile
Guests can create accounts, manage personal information, and access reservation details through structured profile and account controls.
Hotel and Room Listings
Hotel teams can manage property information, room details, amenities, pricing, images, and availability through dedicated management tools.
Hotel Search and Availability
Guests can search hotels, select dates, review available rooms, and compare relevant property information through focused discovery tools.
Reservation and Payments
Guests can select rooms, enter booking information, complete payments, and receive reservation confirmation through a structured checkout experience.
Booking Management
Guests and hotel teams can review reservation details, booking status, dates, guest information, and relevant stay information.
Hotel Operations Dashboard
Internal teams gain central visibility into hotels, rooms, guests, reservations, payments, and platform activity through administrative controls.
Results
StayPilot launched as a connected hotel booking platform covering guest accounts, hotel listings, room management, search, availability, reservations, payments, and administration. The delivered product brought core hotel booking activities into one structured digital environment.
Hotel teams gained centralised tools for managing room information, pricing, availability, and reservations. Internal operations teams could also review booking and payment activity through dedicated controls, creating more consistent workflows for routine platform management.
Guests gained a clearer journey from hotel discovery through room selection and reservation confirmation. Structured property information, visible availability, straightforward payment steps, and accessible booking details helped reduce unnecessary friction during the reservation process.
The platform established a foundation for continued hospitality development. Its architecture can support additional room categories, hotel services, loyalty capabilities, booking options, payment methods, property tools, and operational features as StayPilot evolves.
Development Process
Explore
- Guest Journey Mapping
- Hotel Research
- Requirement Analysis
- Booking Wireframes
- UI UX Design
- Flow Validation
Implement
- Mobile Development
- Backend Development
- API Development
- Hotel Services
- Payment Gateway
- Notification Services
Execute
- Functional Testing
- Load Testing
- Security Review
- Production Setup
- Booking Monitoring
- Workflow Optimization
Typography & colors
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Primary
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Secondary
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Tertiary Color
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Icons Color
#64748B
Text Color
#0F172A
Background Color
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App Visuals
StayPilot
62 hotels
Search
Tonight
Reserve
Details
Ops
Tonight
Check-ins
ManageAlerts
Pilot notices
Almost there
Create profile
Tech Stack
Kotlin supported the Android booking experience with native performance for guest and hotel workflows. Spring Boot powered backend services for properties, rooms, reservations, payments, and administration. MySQL handled structured hotel and booking data, while Elasticsearch supported fast property and room search. Microsoft Azure provided application hosting, monitoring, storage, and scalable cloud infrastructure.
- Kotlin
- Spring Boot
- MySQL
- Elasticsearch
- Microsoft Azure
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