Case Study: TravelAuto achieves a streamlined, searchable car-rental marketplace with Kentico

TravelAuto - Customer Case Study

Travelauto is a global car-rental marketplace that connects regional and international car rental, limousine and cab providers directly with travelers. Tasked with building an online portal for bookings, provider and user registration, deals, search, reviews, location-based maps, currency conversion, Active Directory authentication and provider-level access control, the project had to solve challenges around maintaining diverse provider data, integrating XML web services, minimizing query lag, validating prices at checkout, showing location-specific addresses and maps, and surfacing time- and price-sensitive hot deals.

Ray Business Technologies implemented a Kentico CMS-based solution that stores Travelauto account data in the CMS, fires on‑the‑fly XML requests for external providers, and merges database and web-service results sorted by price and proximity. Hot deals are selected by IP-based geolocation and lowest price, currency conversion uses an API, add-on charges are cached and retrieved via AJAX for fast checkout, and reviews are averaged in the database to rate providers. The result is a focused, scalable site that’s easy to search, supports rich marketing and e‑commerce features (email/drip marketing, analytics, A/B testing, integrations) and is faster to develop and maintain thanks to Kentico’s modular capabilities.

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