Alphabite × Planaway

PlanawayEarlier platform work

Travel platform with multi-stop planning, curated routes and booking integration.

LisbonBarcelonaParisRomeAmalfi
Multi-stopTrip planning
CuratedRoutes to explore
RatehawkLive travel inventory
StoryblokContent control
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The project at a glance

Earlier projects in publishing, applications and platforms. Their technical details describe the original work.

Our contribution
Travel platform with multi-stop planning, curated routes and booking integration.
Why it matters
Earlier experience connecting inventory, booking decisions and a customer-facing interface.
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The Brief

Travel sites list hotels. Travelers plan journeys.

Planaway needed a platform that treats a trip as more than a pile of isolated bookings — modern travelers arrive with a route in mind, not just a night to fill. Simple listings were never going to be enough.

Alphabite built the whole journey: a planner that composes multi-destination itineraries, curated routes to start from, and a booking interface that keeps every stay of the trip manageable in one place — with commerce and live inventory wired in underneath.

01

Itineraries

Complete personalized journeys — stops, nights and stays composed as one plan.

02

Curation

Hand-picked routes to explore, ready to load and make your own.

03

Bookings

Every reservation of the trip, managed through one interactive interface.

The planner

Build a trip, stop by stop.

The heart of Planaway: pick destinations, load a curated route, tune the nights per stop and watch the itinerary — and its route — compose itself. Try it right here.

Curated routes
Destinations

Interactive demo — illustrative destinations and routes; not live inventory.

Your itinerary
Add a destination or load a curated route to start your trip.
Booking management

The whole trip, in your hands.

Bookings aren’t buried in confirmation emails — every stay of every trip lives in one interactive interface, where travelers review, change and cancel without leaving the plan.

Your trips

Interactive demo — illustrative trips and stays; not real bookings.

Mediterranean Arc

PW-2481Sep 12 → Sep 20
Confirmed
Stays on this trip
Hotel Aurelia · Rome01
Casa Limone · Amalfi02
Villa Thira · Santorini03
Under the hood

One trip, five systems, zero seams.

A booking on Planaway travels through a stitched-together architecture — live inventory, an itinerary engine, commerce, content and traveler sync — that behaves like a single product.

01
RatehawkInventory
Live hotel availability and rates flow in through the Ratehawk API for every stop.
02
Itinerary enginePlanning
An Express.js TS service composes stops, nights and stays into one coherent trip.
03
BigCommerce + StripeCheckout
The whole multi-stop trip checks out as one order, paid through Stripe.
04
StoryblokContent
Curated routes and destination stories, editable by the team without a deploy.
05
FirebaseTraveler sync
Trips and bookings live with the traveler — synced in real time across sessions.
The stack

Travel plumbing, engineered to disappear.

Eight systems working as one — a modern TypeScript web app in front of travel inventory, commerce, content and real-time data.

Next.jsWeb

TypeScript front end for the planning and booking experience.

Express.jsAPI

TypeScript services orchestrating itineraries and integrations.

RatehawkTravel

Live hotel inventory and rates behind every stop.

BigCommerceCommerce

The commerce layer that turns an itinerary into an order.

StripePayments

Payment flows for the whole trip, in one checkout.

FirebaseData

Real-time traveler data, auth and sync.

StoryblokContent

CMS flexibility for routes, destinations and pages.

Tailwind CSSUI

A crisp, bright design system for the travel interface.

Why it matters

From listings to journeys.

Planaway shifts travel booking from picking a room to planning an experience — and the engineering underneath makes that shift feel effortless.

Structured itineraries

The experience moves from basic listings to complete, personalized journey planning.

A better booking journey

Curated routes and interactive management improve every step from inspiration to check-in.

Automation + commerce + CMS

Ratehawk inventory, BigCommerce checkout and Storyblok content combined under one refined UX.

Built for modern travelers

For people who want planned experiences, not isolated bookings — the platform thinks in trips.

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