Hostel Management System
Accommodation operations software
The challenge
Room allocation, tenant records and payments lived in physical ledgers, so double bookings and missing receipts were routine.
Digitised rooms, tenants, bookings, payments and records, replacing manual paperwork in student accommodation.
Our role: Systems analysis and full implementation
Architecture decisions
Database-enforced occupancy
Room capacity and active tenancy constraints live in the schema, making a double booking impossible rather than unlikely.
Receipt-first payments
Every payment writes an immutable receipt record that can be reprinted and reconciled.
Deliberately lightweight stack
Plain PHP and MySQL on modest shared hosting keeps running costs near zero for the operator.
System architecture
- 01ClientsServer-rendered admin and warden screens
- 02APIPHP request handlers with session auth
- 03DomainRooms, tenants, bookings, payments, records
- 04DataMySQL with occupancy and payment constraints
- 05OpsScheduled backups and printable reports
Results
Accommodation staff replaced paper ledgers with searchable records and reconcilable payments.
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