The Challenge
Define and build a credible multi-venue reservation saas that solves real operational problems instead of acting as a simple marketing page.
Multi-venue reservation SaaS
Orion Reserve
A scalable reservation platform designed for restaurants, cafés, bars, events, cinemas, theatres, fitness studios, healthcare businesses, hotels, pet hotels, and other venue types.
The Vision
A scalable reservation platform designed for restaurants, cafés, bars, events, cinemas, theatres, fitness studios, healthcare businesses, hotels, pet hotels, and other venue types.
My Role
Founder, Product Architect, UX Planner, and Developer
Product Architecture
- Front end
- Angular product interface planned with responsive dashboards and embeddable WordPress surfaces.
- Backend
- Structured service layer, protected admin workflows, API endpoints, and staged product modules.
- Database
- Relational data model planned around users, settings, products, workflows, ownership, logs, and status-controlled records.
- APIs
- REST-style integration strategy for WordPress, payments, providers, automation, and external services where relevant.
- Authentication
- Protected administration, role-aware workflows, and secure access controls.
- Hosting
- Production-oriented deployment planning using Linux hosting, PM2, Plesk/Hetzner experience, and environment variables.
- Workers
- Background worker concepts for long-running jobs, file workflows, AI jobs, media generation, and notifications where required.
- Third-party providers
- Provider adapters planned for payments, AI, media, WordPress, email, storage, and validation workflows.
Core Product Features
- Multi-venue architecture
- Venue dashboards and customer dashboards
- Table and booking management
- Deposits and payments
- WooCommerce and WordPress integration
- Venue editions and feature toggles
- Subscription and licence architecture
- QR booking and reservation flows
- API-first WordPress embedding
- Planned POS and seat-map integrations
Technology and Delivery
- .NET
- Angular
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- REST APIs
- SaaS
Ownership
- Founder, Product Architect, UX Planner, and Developer
- Chris uses AI as a development accelerator, technical collaborator, reviewer, and planning tool while maintaining human ownership of product decisions, architecture, validation, and delivery.
Development Process
Discovery
Requirements
Architecture
Implementation
Testing
Deployment
Iteration
AI-Assisted Development
Chris uses AI as a development accelerator, technical collaborator, reviewer, and planning tool while maintaining human ownership of product decisions, architecture, validation, and delivery.
Results and Roadmap
- Product requirements and architecture structured from idea to implementation roadmap.
- Feature modules organised into stages, statuses, and future roadmap items.
- Public case study prepared for review with unsupported metrics avoided.
Gallery
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