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A Geo-Dome Booking Engine the Lodge Owns
A brand site and a full booking engine for six luxury geo-domes: real-time availability, payments and an Ikoyi office channel, live without OTA commissions.
6Geo-domes managed in one booking engine
8 weeksFrom kickoff to launch
(The challenge)
Lufasi is a premium eco-stay of six full-board geo-domes in Lagos. With inventory this small, one double booking is a ruined stay and a public review. The lodge wanted to own its availability and checkout instead of renting them from a commission platform.
- A tiny inventory where overbooking is fatal to the brand
- Per-booking commissions from third-party platforms
- A generic marketplace skin that would flatten the brand
(What we built)
Booking engine
- Live availability by check-in, check-out, duration and guest count, treated as a transaction rather than a display
- Payment captured inside the booking flow
- The same atomic-reservation pattern as our Jara Beach Resort platform, so there's one winner and no silent oversell
Brand and human channel
- Brand site presenting the full-board package: welcome lunch, dinner, breakfast and drinks
- The Ikoyi booking office shown as a human channel that books into the same inventory
(Selected screens)
(Results)
- Live at booking.lufasilodges.com with inventory the lodge owns
- Direct bookings without OTA commissions
(Technology)