Background
A hospitality technology firm partnered with Coaldev to build an automated booking platform that ensured profitability on every reservation. The system cross-referenced prices across major booking platforms in real time and confirmed reservations only when a 15% profit margin was guaranteed.
Coaldev designed the Nuitee system to automatically validate bookings, compare rates, and cancel those that didn’t meet profitability thresholds. The platform also included a manual dashboard for managing amenities and handling exceptions.
Challenges
Building a profit-driven booking system required real-time coordination across multiple travel platforms, constant rate monitoring, and automated financial decision-making without human involvement. The platform had to stay accurate under frequent price fluctuations while maintaining system speed and reliability on AWS. Below are the key challenges Coaldev solved while developing this automated, profitability-first reservation engine.
Developing scrapers capable of continuous rate monitoring across booking sites.
Automating booking and cancellation flows without user intervention.
Managing profit calculations dynamically based on fluctuating rates.
Ensuring AWS-hosted stability and fast response times.
Solution
Coaldev developed a Python-based backend with a React frontend, integrated AWS hosting, and intelligent logic to facilitate real-time rate validation.
Coaldev implemented an intelligent, profit-driven booking platform that automated rate comparison and reservation workflows end to end.
Key solution components included:
1. Automated Scraper
An automated scraper performs continuous price monitoring by collecting and updating room rates across competing platforms in real time.
2. Dynamic Profit Calculator
Integrated logic ensured each reservation exceeded the 15% profitability benchmark before confirmation.
3. Booking and Cancellation Module
The system automatically confirms or cancels reservations based on real-time pricing outcomes.
4. Central Management Dashboard
Provided administrators with control over exceptions, amenity configurations, and manual overrides.
5. Cloud Architecture
AWS-based hosting and load balancing ensured minimal latency, fast response times, and 24/7 system uptime.
This architecture provided the client with an automated, profit-optimized ecosystem that strikes a balance between flexibility and strict financial control.
Results
The solution enabled consistent profit margins and improved booking efficiency.
Key results
- Guaranteed 15% profit margin per booking
- Real-time rate comparison and optimization.
- Automated booking and cancellation workflows.
- Manual dashboard for non-standard amenities
Technology Overview
- Web Scraping (Scrapping): Developing web scrapers to extract data from online booking platforms like booking.com. These scrapers were used to check and maintain property rates.
- Backend: Implementing a Python-based backend to handle the business logic of checking and confirming bookings. This included checking for cheaper rooms through the Nuitee platform and ensuring a minimum profit margin of 15% before booking.
- Frontend: Developing a React-based frontend for user interaction, which likely included interfaces for monitoring bookings and managing amenities.
- Hosting: Utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) for hosting the application and its components, ensuring scalability and reliability.
- Integration: Nuitee played a central role in the project, serving as the provider for cheaper room options and helping to maximize profit by ensuring bookings met a minimum profit margin of 15%.
- Hotel Management and Hospitality: Implementing industry-specific features and logic related to hotel management and hospitality, including rate optimization and customer service.
Overall, the solution required expertise in web scraping, backend development, frontend development, hosting on AWS, and industry-specific knowledge in hotel management and hospitality, with a critical focus on the role of Nuitee in the booking process optimization.
