WorkWander Luxe Lodgings

Live in productionLuxury vacation rentals · Booking site and operations app

Direct booking that books itself.

A premium mountain rental site where guests search, quote, split the bill and book direct. Behind it, an operations app that runs cleanings, maintenance, inventory, money and guest communication for seven homes.

Company
Wander Luxe Lodgings (Austin’s own rental company)
Scope
Brand site, booking engine, guest app, internal tools
Platforms
Website, installable guest app, ops app
Live at
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wanderluxelodgings.com
Wander Luxe Lodgings homepage
Wander Luxe Lodgings on a phone

The problem

Every booking went through the big listing sites and their fees. Guest details, cleanings and repairs were spread across texts, inboxes and spreadsheets.

What we built

A booking engine with one shared quote, split payments and automatic reservations in the property manager, plus a private guest app and an ops app with roles for every person who touches a home.

What changed

Guests can book direct with confidence. Each booking flows into operations with no retyping, and cleaners and handymen work from their phones.

Public site

Built to be found, and to close.

Seven home pages, a full Snowshoe guide and an events calendar. Every page is written to answer what a guest is searching for, then move them to dates.

  • Search by what matters: hot tub, ski-in, dogs, sleeps 10 plus
  • List and map views with a custom illustrated resort map
  • Is this home right for us? fit quiz built from real home data
  • Event and Opening Day pages that list which homes are still open, live from the calendars
  • AI Ask Us Anything grounded on site content, never quotes rates
wanderluxelodgings.com/homes
Wander Luxe homes search page
A dated home page opening with the total and a Reserve button, on a phone

Booking and payments

Split the bill, not the group chat.

One pure quote function powers the calendar and the checkout, so the price matches to the cent. A link with dates opens straight to the total and a Reserve button, and groups can split a stay two to eight ways with signed, tamper-proof links.

  • Live availability and card hold, then capture
  • Split payments with branded share links and reminders
  • Automatic reservations in the property manager, to prevent double bookings across channels
  • Reserve on arrival: a dated link opens with the dates, the total and Reserve
  • Send to my group: share the priced quote from the phone in one tap

Guest Lounge

A private trip app for every stay.

Each reservation gets a magic link to its own Guest Lounge. Details unlock on a schedule, the group plans together, and the stay ends with a recap worth sharing.

  • Time-gated access: arrival notes at 14 days, door details at 8 AM on check-in day
  • Group trip board, guestbook and a photo wall with approval
  • Stamp card with loyalty tiers and return codes
  • Late checkout and change requests with a live re-quote
  • Post-stay rating and a review invitation that goes to every guest
  • Installable on the home screen
Homes page on a phone

Operations app

Seven homes, one calm dashboard.

The ops app is ordered by how often each screen is used. Daily work sits on top, then money, homes, guests and marketing.

  • Website analytics with per-home quote-to-book and a weekly “close to page one” search list
  • Availability miss rate shows demand the homes could not meet
  • Financials synced from accounting, with owner statements
  • Shopping lists per home with the chosen Amazon links and how many packs to buy
  • Seven roles from admin to a read-only viewer enforced in the database

Cleaners and handymen

Field work from a phone.

Cleaners see only their schedule, deep cleans included. Handymen get their own app with jobs, priorities and pay to the minute. Notes from the field become action items automatically.

  • Week view that shows checkouts only, so nobody cleans the wrong home
  • Deep cleans with an in-app checklist, and a finish report that lists what to buy and fix
  • AI turns notes into restock, repair or job items
  • Several jobs, one stop: the handyman logs time in 5-minute steps and pay is figured to the minute
  • Sunday evening digest with one weekly total for turnovers and deep cleans

Custom builds

Engineering guests never notice.

Scheduled automations

Syncs, digests, review requests, guest texts, snow and sunrise alerts, tax reminders and a database health check.

Phone number privacy

The phone number never appears in page code. A tap to reveal opens a text prefilled with the home and dates.

SEO engine

Intent pages, drive-from-city pages, month guides, structured data, generated social images and a weekly AI draft engine.

Survives a slow database

Timeouts with capped retries, cached signals and error boundaries keep the site up when a dependency is not.

Reviews from every channel

Imported from four review sources and matched to the right home with a strict rule.

Read-only roles in Postgres

A viewer role with select-only access. Secrets are excluded at the column level.

Built with

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
  • Stripe
  • Supabase
  • Postgres
  • pg_cron
  • Edge functions
  • Netlify
  • Claude API
  • Resend
  • MapLibre
  • Cloudflare Turnstile

Ops and Guest Lounge screens are recreations with sample homes, guests and numbers. Prices are blurred. No door codes, guest names or real revenue appear anywhere on this site.

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