Brief Description:

The portal is involved in integrating third party booking engines of holiday, car hire, accommodation, flights, airport parking, airport lounge and airport hotels within the portal so that visitors can also look and contact company for latest deals, deal of week, travel essentials and email bargain offers.

Tools and Platforms:

• Linux
• PHP
• My SQL

Functionalities / Features / Modules:

Extensive features in administrator side were required so that administrator can email to subscribed users with latest and catchy deals. A feature-rich content management system was the need of the client, so that administrator can update the deals, pictures and content of the website on regular basis.

The features in general included:

• Catalog management to manage category, subcategory, products and price
• Content management including real-time image upload and deal search
• Booking management providing real-time information on availability of seats/rooms
• Communication system with configurable predefined e-mail templates
• Extensive report generation based on different criteria like Date, Category, Product, User, Invoice, Orders, and Inquiry.

The overall process involved following functionalities:

• A user registers himself online by filling up a simple registration form
• After successful login, user can search for flights, hotels, cruise and holiday packages and book online by paying through secure payment gateway
• Users can view a list of all previous bookings under their account
• Users can change their password, email address, edit addresses, specify default billing and shipping addresses, or even delete addresses
• Confirmation reports/tickets are delivered to user specified destination (e-mail/hard copy).