Central Reservation System (CRS) - Cruise Booking Platform

A scalable cruise reservation platform for managing bookings, cabins, packages, customer data, payments, and cruise operations.

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Industry

Travel & Hospitality

Services

Dedicated Hire Team

Product Development

Country

United States (USA)

Project Overview

Central Reservation System (CRS) is a modular cruise booking and reservation software solution that is intended for streamlining the entire process of cruise reservations. This solution integrates all related processes in one system, including booking, customer management, cruise events, cabins, packages, passengers, payments, documents, and transactions. This system is built with Angular 12, .NET Core 3.1, GraphQL, and MSSQL.

Project Objectives

To facilitate streamlined booking process for cruises.
To consolidate the customer details, preference, and their communication history.
To manage cruise events, cabins, cruise packages, and passengers.
To provide central configuration for pricing and settings.
To support real time availability and pricing updates.
To increase booking accuracy and to improve user experience.
To enable high performance application architecture.
To simplify payment and documentation process.

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Business Challenges

1. Complicated Processes in Booking of Cruises

A cruise booking process consists of interdependent components like events, cabins, packages, passengers, pricing, and payment. Booking these processes separately can create a lot of complexity and errors in the booking.

2. Poor Customer Management

Customer details, preferences, and the entire interaction process between customer and company can become very challenging to manage when it is scattered in different processes. A CRM functionality was needed.

3. Pricing and Availability

For cruise booking, it is important that you have updated information about cabin availability and pricing. Otherwise, there will be an inaccuracy in booking and customer experience.

4. Inconsistent Configuration of Operations

There is a need to keep consistent information of pricing, system configurations, and operational parameters of the company. Without having a centralized configuration, it is challenging to maintain business rules in different modules.

5. Large Data Volume and Performance

Performance needs were high because of complex booking processes and high volumes of requests.

Our Solutions

Our dedicated team developed a centralized and modular Central Reservation System to simplify cruise booking operations, customer management, pricing, and configuration. The platform connects events, cabins, packages, passenger details, payments, and CRM into one streamlined booking workflow.

The solution supports real-time availability and pricing, centralized customer and system configuration, and efficient data handling through GraphQL. This improved booking accuracy, reduced unnecessary data transfer, and provided a faster, more responsive reservation experience.

Key Benefits

Centralized booking and reservation processes for cruise travel
Automated booking process
Efficient cabin, package, event, and customer management
Provides real-time availability and price information
Centralized customer profile information
Ease of managing pricing and system configuration
Streamlined payment processing, document handling, and transactions
Rapid booking duplication process
Future proofing architecture

Key Features

Booking Engine

Book end-to-end cruise reservations from event selection to cabin booking, package booking, passenger details management, booking confirmation, and payment processing.

Event Management

Setup and manage various cruise events, event offerings, schedule and other booking-related information.

Cabin Management

Allow users to view available cabins, choose cabins according to needs, and perform cabin reservations.

Package Management

Setup and manage cruise packages and offerings during booking process.

CRM Module

Manage customer profiles, preferences, and communication history to better engage customers.

Pax Details

Manage passenger details for cruise reservations.

Booking Preview

Present comprehensive booking preview to the user before booking is confirmed.

Payment & Summary

Handle payment processing and produce comprehensive booking summary for the booking.

Copy Booking

Allow users to copy an already booked reservation in order to avoid booking effort.

Central Setup

Setup pricing structures, system setup, and other operational parameters from a central administration module.

Docs Module

Manage booking documentation within the reservation process flow.

Transactions Management

Record transactions related to booking cruises and making payments.

Availability and Pricing in Real Time

Get updates on cabin availability and pricing during booking.

GraphQL Integration

Use GraphQL for effective data fetching from frontend applications to backend services.

Technology

Frontend	Angular 12
Backend	.NET Core 3.1
API	GraphQL
Database	Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL)
Architecture	Modular & Scalable Architecture
Data Communication	GraphQL APIs

Business Results

35%

Faster Booking Processing

The centralized booking engine streamlined event, cabin, package, passenger, and payment workflows, reducing the time required to complete reservations.

30%

Improved Operational Efficiency

Centralized configuration, CRM, booking, document, and transaction modules reduced repetitive administrative work and improved overall workflow efficiency.

30%

Improved Customer Experience

Real-time availability, booking previews, easy booking duplication, and streamlined payment workflows created a smoother reservation experience.

25%

Reduced Booking Errors

Centralized booking workflows and real-time pricing and availability updates improved data consistency and reduced manual booking mistakes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The CRS is the cruise booking reservation system created to manage all the bookings, cabins, packages, customer information, payments, and other cruise-related operations using a centralized system.

It is possible to gain access to the platform by cruise operators, reservation staff, travel agencies, and administration users who are involved in managing cruise booking processes.

Yes, the booking engine of the platform allows real-time availability and price changes to ensure accuracy of the information during the reservation.

Yes, the platform features the Copy Booking option that helps duplicate the current reservation and thus saves time on typing.

The CRM module allows managing customers’ profiles, preferences, and communication history and thus ensures centralizing the customer information.