VenueManager — Birthday Venue Marketplace
A full marketplace platform built as a single WordPress plugin: venue profiles, availability, bookings, owner dashboards and subscription plans.
The problem
Parents looking for a birthday venue had to call ten places to find out who is free on a Saturday. Venue owners had no way to present packages, prices and availability in one place.
The build
Custom post types and taxonomies for venues and cities, a reservation flow with e-mail notifications, an owner dashboard with packages and gallery management, and a plan system with coupons and order approvals. Search is assisted by an AI layer that turns a plain sentence into structured filters, rate limited and cached.
The result
Owners manage their own listings without touching the admin panel, while the platform side keeps CRM, retention e-mails, GDPR tooling and SEO landing pages for every city in one codebase.
Roughly 230 PHP classes, one plugin, zero page builders on the front end.
Stack: WordPress, PHP, MySQL, REST API, AI integration