Online Reservation App for Restaurants

Client: 

A full-service internet company, offering a full range of web-solutions and services to kmo’s, organizations and big enterprises.

Challenges:

§  The client needed a partner for design and development of web application using Grails framework.

§  The online reservation tool should allow selling up to 150% of available chairs. The tool should be managed online in an administrators back-end and shown to the visitor in the restaurants website

§  A portal where all the special offers from restaurants are collected. The visitor buys a place in a restaurant for a certain time/date and pays for it online.

Solution:

§  We worked very closely with the client to understand software requirements and proposed the software development on LAMP platform.

§  We provided dedicated offshore team on BYT Engagement model with desired functional and technical competence for developing online reservation tool for restaurants portal with special offers from restaurants

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     The key functions includes:

§  Creating and managing restaurants profile

§  Highly configurable restaurant settings for defining time slots, distribution of couverts for each slots, discounts etc.

§  User friendly wizard for reservation of day, couverts & timeslots

§  Configurable dashboard and reports at restaurant level for statistics analysis

§  Super admin interface for managing all restaurants information including discounts and statistics

Benefits:

§  The application has handled the increased traffic due to its flexible & robust architecture

§  Client’s revenue has grown substantially

§  Been able to handle peaks and troughs

§  ROI on initial investment in 3 months

§  More than 50% of cost saving in high quality offshore support and maintenance

Technology Platform: LAMP (Linux + Apache + MySQL 5.0 + PHP 5.2) as open source web platform and CakePHP as an application framework.