Discovery
Clarify the goal, users, constraints, current systems, success measures, and delivery risks.
Travel Platform
Mad4trip
Redesign of a travel booking platform: search, live availability and dynamic pricing in one flow, so the enquiry-to-booking gap stops being handled over WhatsApp.
- Client
- Mad4trip
- Year
- 2025
- Role
- Full-stack development
- Type
- Web App
(01)The brief
What needed solving
The old flow showed package prices as ranges written into a CMS. Nothing was live, so every serious enquiry turned into a phone call to confirm whether the price and the dates were still real — and a large share of people never made that call.
(02)Approach
How it was built
(01)
Modelled the trip as data first: inventory, seasons, and rate rules in PostgreSQL, so a price is computed at request time rather than typed into a page.
(02)
Rebuilt the front end as one continuous flow — search, refine, dates, traveller details, pay — with no step that requires a phone call to complete.
(03)
Kept results honest by showing what is unavailable instead of hiding it; a sold-out date is information, not a failure.
(04)
Wrapped the pricing rules in tests so a season change is a config edit with a green check, not a Friday afternoon scare.
(03)Outcome
What changed
Quoted prices match what the inventory actually holds, bookings complete without a call, and the operations team spends its day on trips rather than on confirmations.
PricingComputed live from rate rules
FlowSearch to payment without a phone call
OpsAvailability edited in the admin, not in code
Product and flow redesignReact front endNode.js API with rate and availability rulesPostgreSQL schema and migrationsAdmin panel for inventoryTest suite over pricing logic
(04)Process
The same six stages,every project
Architecture
Choose the right structure, integrations, data model, security boundaries, and technology stack.
Design
Map important journeys and responsive states before expensive decisions are locked in.
Development
Build in reviewable milestones with clean code, documented decisions, and visible progress.
Testing & Launch
Validate functionality, performance, accessibility, security, and production readiness.
Support & Improvement
Monitor real use, resolve issues, and prioritize improvements using evidence.
(05)Keep exploring
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