Wejha Application

Overview

Wejha is a booking platform for holiday and housing properties of many types. Guests book units, owners manage their properties, and administrators run the whole platform.

It has four parts: the public website, an owner portal, an admin dashboard and APIs. I worked with one other developer and was responsible for the admin dashboard, the owner portal and the APIs.

The challenge

Property owners need full control over their units, prices and availability, and the platform team needs to oversee bookings, payments and reviews across every owner. Mobile apps also had to use the same data through APIs.

My role

I built the admin dashboard and owner portal, including their reports and business logic, and created the API endpoints for the owner portal.

Technical challenges

• Two levels of control. Owners manage their own units while admins can see and manage everything, using the same data.
• Detailed unit data. Units carry prices, time slots, images, map pins and many property attributes.
• Maps with permissions. Unit pins on Google Maps can be created and moved depending on the user's permissions.
• API parity. Mobile apps needed endpoints covering everything the owner portal can do.

Outcomes

Owners can list and manage units, follow bookings and payments, and export reports. The platform team manages bookings, reviews, content and settings from one dashboard, and mobile apps use the same features through the API.

Lessons learned

• Build the owner portal and the API from the same business logic so they stay in step.
• Configurable property attributes are easier to grow than fixed columns.
• Reports with date ranges and Excel export are what owners use most.