Tours & Travels Online Booking Portal

Business Situation

Our client is a renowned name in the Travel industry of Iceland. They offer a complete range of tours and travels packages for different kind of customers all across Iceland. Their website was earlier static in nature only useful to get contact details and it was not able to provide all the functionalities they required. Hence they planned to develop an e-store that is able to load fast and provide customers a better experience. That’s why they hired ValueCoders at the first place. Moreover, they wanted to add a few functionalities along with the development process.

When they hired us, we were provided with the following requirements:

• Convert the existing static website to an interactive eCommerce portal.
• Integrate 3rd party payment systems and building online payment portal.
• Fetching data from local search engines and Google sheets.

While developing the website, we faced the following major challenges:

• Making the web portal fast and able to handle heavy traffic.
• Syncing data from local search engine to website database.
• Accesing agent data from Google sheets.

However, we overcame the challenges with our technical expertise. The former site was slow to load because of it’s data fetching system. We made separate year wise indexing using SQL table partitioning algorithm which made it easier to fetch data from the server in less time. We did structure mapping with JSON Api and synchronized with local search engine to make it easier to get data access. We applied a custom based online/offline sync process for better job scheduling. Moreover, we called Google Api to fetch Agent data from Google sheet.