Case study · Property Management & Short Stays
One platform core behind Luxico, every channel in sync
Luxico runs on a Laravel property-management platform that National Digital builds and evolves for Powerhouse Technology, synchronised across every booking channel.
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At a glance
- Industry
- Property Management & Short Stays
- Engagement type
- Ongoing platform partnership
- First release
- 2024
- Team
- National Digital engineering team
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“Switching to National Digital as our primary development partner was one of the best decisions we've made. Their technical expertise and reliability have been outstanding.”
Alex Ormerod Co-Founder & Managing Director at Luxico
The platform by the numbers
One core
How properties are managed
Own guest experience
What each consumer brand keeps
One system of record
Where booking channels connect
May 2023
Platform partnership began
About the client
Luxico is for the guests who want more than just accommodation and experiences that surpass the TripAdvisor top 5 list. We’re here for the people who love life’s little luxuries, who value personal service, and who want to get off the beaten path.
The challenge
Running several consumer brands on separate codebases would mean building every booking-channel integration, pricing rule and operator feature more than once, and fixing every bug more than once. Luxico needed its own guest experience without forked business logic.
What we built
National Digital built a single Laravel PMS core package that owns all shared business logic and deployed it behind a thin wrapper application for Luxico. Shared services (a React operator dashboard, PDF generation and a generated JavaScript SDK) and a Next.js guest site complete the platform.
- Shared Laravel PMS core that holds the business logic for every brand
- Booking-channel API integrations
- Dynamic pricing pipeline and guest experience integrations
- Shared React operator dashboard and PDF document service
- Generated JavaScript SDK consumed by the brand front-ends
- Next.js guest site for Luxico
- Datadog monitoring across staging and production
What we built in each area
Website & apps
The Luxico Next.js guest site uses a generated JavaScript SDK.
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
Staff tools
A shared React operator dashboard and a PDF document service serve the staff of every brand.
- React
- TypeScript
Integration layer
Booking-channel API integrations, a dynamic pricing pipeline and guest experience integrations connect the platform to the services Luxico uses.
- Airbnb
- Booking.com
- VRBO
- Rentals United
- PriceLabs
- Duve
- Breezeway
Bookings & PMS
One shared Laravel property management core holds the business logic for every brand and sits behind a thin application for Luxico.
- Laravel
- Guesty
- Resly
- HomHero
Cloud, security & support
Staging and production environments run with Datadog monitoring across both, and the environments are built with Terraform.
- Terraform
The outcome
Property data, pricing and guest communications stay synchronised across every booking channel from one system of record. A fix made in the shared core reaches Luxico and every other brand on the platform.
Where it went next
National Digital started work on the platform in May 2023 and shipped the first release in 2024. New channel integrations, pricing rules and operator features have since gone into the shared core for every brand to use.
This case study describes real work delivered by National Digital for Luxico. Selected figures are indicative and rounded.
Key Takeaways
What a shared platform core changes for Luxico
- Business logic written once in a shared core ships to every brand, so features and fixes are not rebuilt per brand.Critical
The Laravel core package holds all shared property, availability and rate logic. Each brand runs a thin wrapper application around it, which means a change to booking rules follows one deployment path for every consumer brand.
- Channel integrations built for one brand are inherited by every other brand on the platform.Critical
Each booking channel is integrated once at the core. A new channel is a single piece of platform work that every current and future brand picks up without its own integration project.
- Brand independence sits in the front end while the backend stays shared.Important
Each brand runs its own Next.js guest site against the shared core. That keeps pricing strategy, content and guest journey brand-specific while avoiding the divergent business logic that separate codebases produce over time.
- Adding a consumer brand takes a wrapper application on the existing platform.Important
A new brand starts with every channel integration, pricing rule and operator feature already built into the shared Laravel core. Its own work is limited to the wrapper application and a Next.js guest site.
Luxico and the other consumer brands run on one Laravel property-management core. The shared core owns business logic and channel integrations, and each brand owns its own guest experience. Work on the core is done once for every brand.
What did Luxico need?
Luxico needed its own guest experience without forked business logic. Running several consumer brands on separate codebases would have meant building every booking-channel integration, pricing rule and operator feature more than once, and fixing every bug more than once.
What did National Digital build for Luxico?
National Digital built a single Laravel core package that owns the shared business logic, deployed behind a thin wrapper application for Luxico. A React operator dashboard, a PDF document service, a generated JavaScript SDK and a Next.js guest site complete the platform.
How long has National Digital worked on the Luxico platform?
Work started in May 2023 and the first release shipped in 2024. The engagement is an ongoing platform partnership, and new channel integrations, pricing rules and operator features have since gone into the shared core.
What changed for Luxico after the build?
Property data, pricing and guest communications stay synchronised across every booking channel from one system of record. A fix made in the shared core reaches Luxico and every other brand on the platform.
Questions decision-makers ask about this build
Why does Luxico run on a platform core shared with other brands?
Separate codebases mean every booking-channel integration, pricing rule and operator feature gets built more than once, and every bug gets fixed more than once. A single Laravel core package holds all shared business logic and each brand runs a thin wrapper around it, so a booking-channel integration is written in the core once and serves every brand on the platform.
How do the brands stay commercially distinct if they share a core?
The shared core owns business logic and leaves presentation to the brands. Each brand fronts it with its own Next.js guest site and its own thin wrapper application, so pricing strategy, content and guest journey can diverge per brand while the property model, channel sync and operator tooling stay common.
What keeps property data and pricing consistent across booking channels and direct bookings?
The core is the single system of record. It holds property data, availability and rates and pushes them to each channel, so no channel becomes a second source of truth. Dynamic pricing and guest experience run through the same core. A rate change or a blocked date propagates from that one place, and nobody has to reconcile it by hand across separate consoles.
What is involved in adding another consumer brand or booking channel?
A new brand needs its own thin wrapper application, a Next.js guest site, and staging and production environments with Datadog monitoring. The property model, channel sync and operator tooling come from the shared core. A new booking channel is one integration in the Laravel core, built against the same system of record that already feeds the existing channels. Neither change requires forking the backend.
What does the operator side of the platform look like?
A shared React and TypeScript dashboard, a PDF document service and a generated JavaScript SDK all sit on the same core. The SDK is generated from the platform, and the brand front ends and the operator dashboard build against it. They stay in step with the core API as it changes because the build checks every call against a typed contract.
Would this architecture suit another multi-brand operator?
The code would not transfer as a template. It was built around Luxico and the other Powerhouse Technology brands, which run largely the same property-management rules over one system of record that National Digital controlled end to end. The design decision transfers: where to draw the line between shared domain logic and brand-specific experience. For another operator, that line depends on how much their brands share.
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What's next
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Luxico shares one booking and property-management core with the other Powerhouse Technology brands, built by National Digital. If you're weighing a similar consolidation, see how we approach custom booking and scheduling systems and system integration, part of our wider custom software development work.
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