Bus Booking Application
Build Your Own Digital Bus Booking Platform
Bring passengers, bus operators, and travel operations together with a modern bus booking platform designed for online trip discovery, reservation workflows, operator management, and centralized administration.
Bus Booking Application: scope
- Trip search and seat selection
- Operator onboarding and bus setup
- Routes, trips and fares
- Admin review of operators and buses
Overview
A smart digital platform for bus booking, operators and travel management.
The Bus Booking Application is a customisable platform for businesses that want to establish or expand online bus reservations. It connects passengers, bus operators and administrators through separate applications on one backend.
A demo takes you through the booking journey and the operator tools. Online payment, delivery of notifications and production set-up are scoped and configured for each platform.
Who it connects
- Passengers searching for and reserving trips
- Operators managing buses, routes, trips and fares
- Administrators reviewing operators and buses
Passenger experience
A booking journey built for the web.
A customer web application covers the journey from finding a trip to viewing the booking afterwards.
Account and passenger details
- Booking with a name and mobile number
- Name, age and gender for each passenger
- Passenger profile page
After booking
- Booking history
- Booking details
Trip, boarding and dropping points, passengers, seats and fares.
Bus search and trip discovery
Easy to find the right trip.
A trip is listed once an operator publishes it for an approved bus. Results and seat counts are read when the search runs; they are not a live feed.
Search
- Search by source, destination and journey date
- Trip results across operators
Trip information
- Operator, bus and bus type
- Departure, arrival and journey duration
- Starting fare and seats remaining
- Boarding and dropping points
The first and last stop of the trip are shown.
Filters and sorting
- Filters
AC and non-AC, sleeper and seater, departure time and amenities.
- Sort by departure, arrival, duration or price
Seat selection and reservation
Choose a seat, and hold it while you book.
Seats come from the layout the operator defined for the bus. The database decides who gets a seat, so two bookings should not end up holding the same one.
Seat map
- Seat layout by deck, with seater and sleeper seats
- Available, held and booked seat indicators
- Seat selection and fare by seat type
- A seat allocated to each passenger
Reservation
- Temporary seat hold during booking
Unpaid holds expire and the seats are released.
- Protection against duplicate seat bookings
Reservation workflow
How a booking moves from search to confirmation.
Search
Source, destination and date.
Select seats
From the trip’s seat map.
Passenger details
One passenger per seat.
Seat hold
Booking awaits payment.
Payment
Simulated in the demo.
Confirmed
Seats booked, ticket details available.
Booking management
Every booking has a reference and a status.
Bookings
- Booking creation and reference generation
- Booking status tracking
Awaiting payment, confirmed or cancelled.
- Booking cancellation
Releases the seats. No refund is calculated or paid.
Tickets and confirmation
- Ticket details and a plain-text download
Bus operator management
From operator application to a bus ready for sale.
Operators apply, submit their details and documents, and set up their fleet from their own console. An administrator reviews each operator and bus.
Operator accounts
- Operator registration with business, GST and bank details
- Document upload and application status
- Operator approval and rejection by an administrator
- Operator dashboard and management pages
Fleet
- Bus details and bus types
- Seat layout designer
- Amenities, compliance details and documents
- Bus verification before a bus can be scheduled
Bookings and earnings
- Operator-wise bookings
- Earnings view from bookings
Trip and schedule management
Routes, stops, schedules and fares.
Routes and stops
- Route configuration
Source and destination cities, distance and duration.
- Stops, with boarding and dropping locations
Trips
- Create trips and assign an approved bus
- Departure and arrival times
- Base fare and fares by seat type
- Seat inventory generated for each trip
- Publish a trip for booking
Admin dashboard and operations
Central review of who sells on the platform.
A separate administration application covers operators and buses.
In the admin application
- Dashboard of operator status
- Operator management and approval
- Bus verification queue
- User list
Technical architecture
Modular services behind one API gateway.
Customer and administration experiences are separate applications. Backend responsibilities are split into services, with a direction towards event-driven integration that gives the platform a foundation to scale from.
Applications
Separate experiences
- Customer and operator web app
- Administration app
Connected by: HTTP APIs
API Gateway
Single entry point
- Routing
- Cross-origin rules
Connected by: Proxied requests
Services
Node.js modules
- Authentication
- Booking
- Operator and catalogue
- Trip search read model
- Tracking
Connected by: Kafka events, where connected
Data
Storage by purpose
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
Technology
Built with
- Frontend
- Ionic ReactReactVite
- Backend
- Node.jsExpress
- Data
- PostgreSQLMongoDBRedis
- Messaging
- Apache Kafka
Mobility and transportation
Three products for three different journeys.
These are separate Sharpflux products, each with its own users and scope.
Bus Booking Application
Seats on scheduled bus trips.
- Bus trip discovery
- Seat reservation
- Bus operator management
Logo Mobility
Taxi and mobility applications.
- Taxi booking
- Billing
- Advertising
Online Driver Booking (DriverApp)
Professional drivers for customers’ own vehicles.
- Driver booking
- Agency dispatch
- Duty management
Questions
Bus booking software FAQs
What does it take to launch our own platform?
Start with a demo of the booking journey and operator tools. A launch also needs a real payment gateway, notifications, security hardening and production infrastructure, which we scope and agree for your platform.
Can passengers pay online?
Online payment needs a payment gateway, integrated and configured for your platform with the provider you choose. The demo uses a simulated payment step, and no real payment is taken.
Does it offer live bus tracking?
Not at present. GPS device integration and a live map would be scoped for your platform if you need them.
Is there a mobile app?
The customer experience is a web application built with Ionic React. A dedicated mobile application would be scoped separately.
Can it be customised for our business?
Yes. We can scope operator workflows, fares, routes, branding and integrations around how your business runs, as bus booking application development for your platform.
How is it different from Logo Mobility and DriverApp?
The Bus Booking Application sells seats on scheduled bus trips. Logo Mobility covers taxi and related applications. DriverApp supplies professional drivers who drive a customer’s own vehicle.