How to Create a Booking Application?

YEREVAN, Armenia - July 10, 2023 - PRLog -- The ability to book hotel rooms, vacation itineraries, flights, and other services online has streamlined the booking process for customers. For example, Booking.com is one of the largest online travel agencies. It's an online platform where hotels and other types of accommodations make their rooms available to guests from all over the world. According to Statista, as of March 2023, Booking's web page was the most visited travel and tourism website worldwide.

How to Build a Booking App

1: Check out some existing booking apps, their business solutions, history of growth, etc. This will help you create a booking app that will stand out and outperform your competitors.

2: Choose the type of booking app you want to develop. You can choose between in-advance (food and beverages, beauty services, hotel booking engines, doctor booking, restaurant booking, event booking) or on-demand apps (taxi services, delivery services, cleaning services).

3: Hire a reliable development team. Consider outsourcing software development to a team that knows how to create a booking app quickly and effectively.

4: Plan the functionality for your booking app taking into consideration the business and technical requirements.

5: Create an interesting, yet easy and intuitive UX/UI for your booking app.

6: Test, deploy, and launch the booking app.

7: Collect feedback, and plan further improvements to keep your online booking website and app up to date.

Features for Making a Booking App

User registration: Make this process as easy as possible. Let users register via e-mail or 3rd party accounts like Facebook, Google or Apple.

Search: This feature allows users to search by the name of the hotel or by city. It's a good idea to enable searches and filters by different categories and filters.

Booking form: Let users conveniently and quickly make online reservations.

Payment: Be sure to include all possible payment methods in your app, such as PayPal, credit card, cash, etc.

Review and rating: Reviews will obviously help other users make informed decisions more quickly.

Push notifications: Send out users check-in and check-out alerts, friendly reminders, recommendations, as well as weather notifications, price discounts, and other relevant alerts.

How Much it Costs to Build a Booking App

Several factors affect the overall development cost, such as the number of platforms supported, the complexity of features and design, the location of the app development agency, etc.

On average, the app development cost ranges between $60,000 and $90,000 for a single version with the simplest set of features and a development time between three to six months.

For more information read our latest post: How to Create a Booking App: 8-Step Guide (https://www.addevice.io/blog/how-to-create-a-booking-app)