Build Your Custom Playground Booking System

The Story

The client partnered with FiftyFive to build a full-cycle booking ecosystem combining a mobile application and a scalable backend platform. The goal was to provide real-time venue availability, seamless booking flows, flexible rescheduling, secure payments, and automated infrastructure for reliable performance. FiftyFive delivered both the end-user experience and the underlying architecture, ensuring smooth operations, reduced manual management, and high system reliability.

The client operates a sports facility management business that required a secure, scalable digital system enabling users to search, book, and manage Padel and playground court reservations across multiple locations.

Abhay

Head of Mobile Development

The challenge

• > Managing real-time court availability across multiple venues.

• > Handling simultaneous booking requests without performance degradation.

• > Designing reliable booking logic with date and time slot validation.

• > Implementing secure authentication and data protection workflows.

• > Ensuring smooth user navigation and state management within the mobile app.

• > Integrating geolocation services for venue discovery.

• > Configuring low-latency APIs with high uptime requirements.

• > Standardizing multi-environment deployments for development, staging, and production.

• > Tracking errors and analytics across mobile user journeys.

The solution

• > Implemented a React Native mobile application using TypeScript, Redux, and React Navigation.

• > Integrated geolocation-based venue discovery with real-time availability checks.

• > Added seamless booking, rescheduling, and cancellation workflows with user-friendly UI components built via Storybook.

• > Integrated Stripe for secure payment processing.

• > Built backend services and booking APIs with secure authentication and availability management.

• > Designed modular, cloud-ready architecture using Nginx for routing and performance optimization.

• > Implemented Terraform for automated infrastructure provisioning and environment consistency.

• > Containerized services with Docker and Docker-Compose for predictable builds.

• > Adopted Serverless (YAML) workflows and AWS CodeDeploy for zero-downtime deployments.

• > Added Mixpanel and Sentry for analytics and error tracking.

• > Conducted QA validation for booking flows, API logic, and deployment stability.

The outcome

The booking platform achieved a 65% reduction in manual scheduling time, a 40% improvement in processing speed, and 99.5% deployment reliability. Users experienced seamless court discovery, faster booking completion, and flexible schedule management, while venues gained higher utilization and increased revenue.