🏨 Overview
A fully custom hotel management system developed for a hospitality business, designed to digitize and streamline the management of:
- Rooms
- Bookings
- Clients
- Occupancy status
- Historical records
The project started from a detailed operational analysis and evolved into a solid, modular and scalable platform.
🚀 Technical Architecture
- Custom PHP 8 backend
- Relational MySQL database
- Foreign key relationships between bookings and clients
- Intelligent client autocomplete integration
- Deployment on Ubuntu VPS
- Containerized environment using Docker
- Git version control with structured branching and releases
- Automated daily database backups with 14-day retention
✨ Core Features
- Room occupancy calendar
- Complete booking management
- Dedicated client database with archive system
- Soft-delete client archiving
- Optimized interface for daily operational use
- Authentication-based access control
🔐 Security & Deployment
- Separate development and production environments
- Environment-based configuration variables
- Automated database backup system via cron
- Versioning with release tagging (v1.0, v1.1, v1.2)
- Controlled production deployment on VPS infrastructure
📈 Outcome
The system is currently running in production and actively used by the hospitality business.
The project has been designed as a reusable core engine, adaptable for future installations in other hotel or hospitality environments.