Mobile App Development & Design for Hotel Chain
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Mobile App Development UX/UI Design
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Hybrid & cross platform apps Flutter
- $10,000 to $49,999
- Feb. - May 2025
- Quality
- 5.0
- Schedule
- 5.0
- Cost
- 5.0
- Willing to Refer
- 5.0
"The most impressive aspect was their combination of technical execution and product thinking."
- Hospitality & leisure
- Spain
- 51-200 Employees
- Online Review
Virtuous Techlogic designed and developed a Flutter-based mobile app for a hotel chain. The team implemented hotel browsing, booking workflows, travel recommendations, and secure authentication.
Virtuous Techlogic's solution created a much smoother digital experience for the client's guests. The team's project management was organized and easy to follow during the project. Virtuous Techlogic adapted quickly whenever priorities changed and was responsive, patient, and highly collaborative.
The client submitted this review online.
BACKGROUND
Please describe your company and position.
I am the Sales Professional of Carris Hoteles
Describe what your company does in a single sentence.
We are the leading hotel chain in Galicia and northern Portugal. Currently, we have 6 outstanding hotels that allow guests to discover and enjoy the cultural and geographical richness this region has to offer. Our hotels are located in Porto (Carrís Porto Ribeira), A Coruña (Carrís Marineda), Santiago de Compostela (Carrís Casa de la Troya), and Ourense (Carrís Cardenal Quevedo). WHY CARRÍS? QUALITY: We believe in quality and excellence as the path to satisfaction and well-being. PROXIMITY: The comfort of being close to everything and having everything within reach is one of the great advantages of choosing to stay with Carrís. DESIGN: Our rooms and facilities have a unique charm. GASTRONOMY: Staying at Carrís means enjoying the very best cuisine. EXCLUSIVE SERVICE: We know we are an essential part of every journey, which is why our goal is to be the best hosts our guests can have. TECHNOLOGY: We offer free Wi-Fi in all our hotels and provide companies with the best equipment for their business meetings.
OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE
What specific goals or objectives did you hire Virtuous Techlogic to accomplish?
- At Carrís Hoteles, we wanted to modernize the digital experience for our guests across our hotels in Galicia and northern Portugal. Our objective was not simply to create another hotel application, but to build a travel-focused platform that would improve the complete guest journey before, during, and after their stay. We hired Virtuous Techlogic to help us develop a scalable MVP for a Flutter-based mobile application connected to a web dashboard for our internal operations team. We needed features such as booking management, guest authentication, hotel discovery, travel recommendations, notifications, and integrations with third-party hospitality systems. Another important objective was to create a backend infrastructure capable of supporting future expansion as our hotel group continues to grow. We also wanted a reliable architecture that could centralize guest information across multiple hotel locations without creating operational complexity for our staff.
SOLUTION
How did you find Virtuous Techlogic?
Online Search
Why did you select Virtuous Techlogic over others?
- Pricing fit our budget
- Great culture fit
- Good value for cost
- Company values aligned
How many teammates from Virtuous Techlogic were assigned to this project?
6-10 Employees
Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.
The scope of work was quite extensive because the platform combined customer-facing travel functionality with internal hotel management operations. Virtuous Techlogic developed a Flutter Android and iOS application from a single codebase, which was very important for us because it simplified maintenance and ensured consistency across devices. The mobile app included hotel browsing, room booking workflows, personalized travel recommendations, secure authentication, customer account management, and multilingual support. On the backend side, they implemented a scalable architecture using Supabase and Firebase services. The team configured authentication systems, realtime database synchronization, cloud storage for hotel media assets, and multiple API integrations with external booking and operational systems. They also handled third-party integrations connected to payment systems, booking confirmations, notifications, analytics tools, and customer communication services. One of the most valuable deliverables was the admin dashboard. Our internal staff can now manage reservations, guest activity, hotel content updates, promotions, and operational reporting from one centralized environment. They also assisted with database migration from some of our older systems into the new infrastructure, which was a sensitive process because we needed to preserve historical customer data. What I appreciated most was that they were thinking beyond coding. They regularly suggested better user flows, operational improvements, and practical business ideas that improved the final product significantly. Their team approached the project like long-term technology partners rather than temporary developers.
RESULTS & FEEDBACK
What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?
The mobile application created a much smoother digital experience for our guests. We noticed stronger engagement from users interacting with hotel information, reservations, and travel-related content through the app. Operationally, our staff benefited from having centralized management tools inside the admin dashboard, which reduced a lot of manual coordination between different hotel locations. The realtime database setup improved synchronization between systems, and the scalable backend architecture gave us confidence that we can continue expanding the platform without rebuilding the entire infrastructure later. The migration from older systems into the new environment was also completed successfully without major disruption to our ongoing hotel operations, which was extremely important for us.
Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?
Their project management was organized and easy to follow. We had weekly progress discussions, shared development updates, testing reviews, and milestone planning sessions. For a project of this size, there were naturally some adjustments and evolving requirements along the way, especially because hotel operations involve many real-world scenarios that only become visible during testing. However, the Virtuous Techlogic team adapted very quickly whenever priorities changed. They were responsive, patient, and highly collaborative. Instead of rejecting change requests, they usually tried to understand the operational reason behind them and proposed practical alternatives when necessary. I also appreciated how transparent they were during technical discussions. They explained infrastructure decisions, scalability considerations, and backend limitations in a way that non-technical stakeholders could understand.
What was your primary form of communication with Virtuous Techlogic?
Email or Messaging App
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
The most impressive aspect was their combination of technical execution and product thinking. Many development companies focus only on completing assigned tasks, but Virtuous Techlogic consistently looked at the project from both the business and customer perspective. They contributed ideas related to guest experience, booking flow simplification, dashboard usability, and future scalability. Their experience with Flutter, Supabase backend architecture, Firebase services, authentication systems, realtime databases, cloud storage, API integrations, and scalable infrastructure was very evident throughout the engagement. I also appreciated how calm and solution-oriented they remained during difficult phases of the project. Hospitality platforms involve many moving parts, and they handled complexity professionally without creating unnecessary stress.
Are there any areas for improvement or something Virtuous Techlogic could have done differently?
I would say that during some phases of rapid development, documentation could have been slightly more detailed for internal reference purposes. However, whenever we requested clarification or additional documentation, their team responded quickly and provided support. Apart from that, the collaboration was excellent, and we would absolutely consider working with them again for future hospitality technology initiatives.
RATINGS
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Quality
5.0Service & Deliverables
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Schedule
5.0On time / deadlines
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Cost
5.0Value / within estimates
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Willing to Refer
5.0NPS