Bath Independent Guest House Association

www.bigha.co.uk

What was needed

Ongoing development and refinement of BIGHA's accommodation portal and member site

What Sodapop did

We took over the BIGHA site about a year ago, and since then have been working hard to make the site useful to users and valuable to members. We've created a small web app that allows the individual guest houses to update their accommodation, so that visitors to the site can search for late available rooms. At present it's only a fortnight in advance, but it's been a great success, and we plan to roll out a more fully featured version of the app soon.

We've also been busy behind the scenes, adding more functions to the member's area, the most recent being a forum. We plan to fully redesign the back end in the next few months, adding even more value for member establishments.

What the client said

"We are delighted with the late availability function which you developed for our members. I can say with absolute certainty that all subscribers have benefited from sales which have directly resulted from the programme. We never dreamt that we would get the overwhelming response which it has generated. The programme which you developed to sit on members desktops is simplicity itself to use.

"We struggled for nearly five years to make anything of the website, but we have been very impressed with the quality of your work, your understanding of our brief and your execution of our requests. The improvements must put us amongst the best and most efficient organisations of our type in the country."

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The website has a page for each member

Users can search for available properties on a certain date

The web app allows guest house users to easily update availability