Shirley’s Holidays
Online booking that stays right: no double bookings, and no passwords for guests to forget.
- Client
- Shirley’s Holidays
- Type
- Holiday-let booking site
- What I did
- Build, hosting and care
- Live site
- Coming soon
The brief
Guests needed to book and pay online, and the owner needed availability to be right every time.
Their previous site was a repurposed one, and it was clunky for guests and staff alike, with security weaknesses that needed fixing. Staff had to copy booking details into a Word document by hand, and the calendar didn’t show the half day (check-out in the morning, check-in in the afternoon), so guests sometimes looked at it after booking and thought their dates were wrong.
What I did
- Built online booking, with a calendar showing what is free.
- Set up password-free login: guests sign in with a link sent by email.
- Made availability get checked at the moment of payment, so two people can’t book the same dates.
- Built the day-to-day tools the business needed: a downloadable booking sheet and a weekly cleaning list.
- Host it and look after it: updates, backups and monitoring.
The result
Staff now download a booking sheet and a weekly cleaning list instead of copying details into Word, and guests can see at a glance when they check out and when the next guests arrive.
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