Bill Kent Family House
A booking website for a family holiday cottage: availability, pricing rules and confirmations, with an admin dashboard for the owner.
This project is live and in use.
- Client
- The Bill Kent family
- Private holiday cottage
- Services
- StrategyUX/UIWeb developmentSoftwareIntegrations
- Built with
- Next.js 16, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS 4, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Zod, Resend, pdf-lib, Vitest, Vercel
Overview
The Bill Kent Family House is a private cottage near St Lucia that family members and invited guests can book. The website replaces messages and a shared calendar with a single place to check availability, book a stay and receive a confirmation, while the owner manages every booking from a simple admin dashboard.
The challenge
Bookings were being arranged by hand, which made double-bookings and unclear pricing a constant risk. Family stays and guest stays are priced differently, children under two stay free, and the cottage sleeps a fixed maximum. The owner needed those rules enforced automatically, plus a way to record payments that happen outside the website by EFT or cash.
What PRESEO did
PRESEO designed and built a Next.js booking site backed by Supabase. Availability is shown on a public calendar, the booking form calculates the price live as guests and dates change, and overlapping bookings are made impossible both in application code and by a PostgreSQL exclusion constraint. The owner signs in to an admin dashboard to search bookings, create or edit them on a guest's behalf, mark them paid, upload proof of payment and block out dates. Confirmations can be downloaded as a PDF or emailed to the guest.
What was delivered
- Public homepage with availability calendar and things-to-do guide
- Booking form with live pricing for family and guest stays
- Confirmation screen with downloadable and emailable confirmation documents
- Admin dashboard with calendar and list views
- Manual booking creation, editing and cancellation for the owner
- Paid/unpaid tracking with proof-of-payment upload
- Blocked-date management for staff leave
- First-run admin setup and Supabase-authenticated admin team
- Row-level security, migrations and unit tests
Key features
Live availability
A public calendar shows which nights are free, booked or blocked, fed by a sanitised availability endpoint.
Pricing rules built in
Family bookings are priced per night, guest bookings per paying guest, under-twos stay free and occupancy is capped. The total updates as the form changes.
No double bookings
Overlaps are rejected in the application and by a database exclusion constraint, so two simultaneous bookings cannot both succeed.
Owner dashboard
Search, filter and edit bookings, mark payments received and manage blocked dates from a calendar or list view.
Confirmation documents
Guests receive a confirmation they can download as a PDF or have emailed, generated from the booking record.
Editable site settings
Rates, descriptions and share text are stored in a settings table so the owner can change them without a code deployment.
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