Square Hotels

Create a smooth and seamless hotel booking experience.

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Inspiration

I was going through the Square seller community and found many instances where Sellers need a Hotel Reservation System using Square Appointments, but it has not been designed to work with full-day or multiple-day bookings. Here are a few references, ref-1, ref-2, ref-3

So this drove me to try solve this full/multi-day booking using Bookings API

What it does

  • Create a new hotel
  • Gives you your hotel website
  • You can create rooms, which translate to the catalog item
  • Create bookings with Bookings API

How we built it

  • Angular webapp and a Nest JS server
  • Oauth2 with Square account to get details

Challenges we ran into

  • Understanding Catalog API.
  • Using Bookings API for Hotel as it needs a teammate to create bookings.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting the basic app working! After the in-depth encounter with the bookings API this seemed like a mammoth task.

What we learned

Going through the plethora of Square docs, the scale of the application amazed me. The Node.js SDK is so well written, I have picked up a few neat concepts from there as well.

What's next for Square Hotels

  • Checkout API integration
  • Custom Domains
  • Ability to design Hotel page
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