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Case study
Luxury Villa Booking Platform
A luxury villa/house booking order system in Croatia built with PHP/Laravel, featuring real-time updates via WebSockets, Airbnb integration for listings/reservations, and robust availability management.
Role
Full-stack engineer — booking engine, realtime sync, and channel integrations
Problem
Luxury villa operators needed accurate availability across direct bookings and Airbnb without double-bookings or stale calendars.
Approach
- Built a Laravel booking core with MySQL availability rules
- Added WebSocket updates so staff see reservation changes live
- Integrated Airbnb listing and reservation sync
- Hardened conflict checks around overlapping stays and blocked dates
Architecture
Laravel booking API
MySQL availability model
WebSocket event layer
Airbnb channel sync
Results
Single calendar truth for direct and Airbnb inventory
Faster staff response with live reservation updates
Production booking site at luxurycroatiaretreats.com
Stack
PHPLaravelMySQLWebSocketsAirbnb API