Buonafortuna

The client

Buonafortuna offers holiday stays and venues for groups, families and friends. Its listings include villas, resorts, hotels, cottages, farm houses and service apartments in places such as Lonavala, Alibaug, Karjat, Pali, Mumbai and Pune. Alongside stays, it organises corporate bookings, weddings and parties.

The business serves two very different groups: guests looking for somewhere to stay, and property owners who want their homes listed and managed.

The brief

A stay-booking business needs more than a brochure website. It needs a platform that:

• Lets guests search properties by location, dates and group size, and browse by place or property type
• Presents each property with enough photos and detail to support a booking decision
• Gives guests and property owners separate accounts, each with the tools they need
• Works for visitors who are more comfortable in Hindi or Bangla than in English
• Gives the business room to publish content and take enquiries for events

What we built

• A search-led homepage under the headline "Explore the best stays", with a search form for location, dates, adults and children
• Browse by location and by property type, with dedicated listing pages for each place and each type of stay
• Property detail pages with a full-screen photo gallery and tabs for description, rooms, reviews and location, plus house rules
• Guest registration and login, so travellers can manage their bookings
• A separate owner registration and login, giving property owners their own area of the platform
• A language switcher for English, Hindi and Bangla
• An events section for corporate bookings, weddings and parties, linked to the contact page
• A blog, about and locations pages, an investors page, a newsletter sign-up and a WhatsApp link with a pre-filled message

Design and build choices

The design leads with photography and a prominent search box, because guests on a booking site want to start looking straight away. A deep rose brand colour runs through buttons and highlights, keeping the platform recognisable across pages.

Keeping guest and owner journeys separate was central to the build. Each group signs in through its own login and sees only what is relevant to it, which keeps the interface simple for both sides.

The multilingual interface makes the platform usable for a wider audience across India. The whole platform is responsive, so search, galleries and sign-in all work on a phone.

The technology

Buonafortuna is built in Laravel with a MySQL database, which handles the property listings, accounts and content. We host and maintain the platform.

Services involved

This is a web application project at heart, supported by our hosting and maintenance service.

Planning a booking or listings platform?

If your business needs search, accounts for different types of user, or more than one language, we can help you work out what to build first. Contact us to talk it through.