MERN application · Bookings & scheduling
Salon booking system
An application for booking services and organising a salon’s schedule, with separate customer and administration flows.
My contribution
I developed data models, authentication, availability and booking rules, including admin-created appointments, validation and tests.
- Two-person project
- Duration-aware booking logic
A booking is more than picking a time
The application lets customers select services and find available slots based on duration, staff availability and calendar blocks. Administrators have a calendar and management tools.
We developed the project as a pair. My work focused on the data and rules that keep the schedule and booking process consistent.
My contribution
- Mongoose models for users, appointments, staff, services, blocks, settings and technical notes.
- JWT authentication, protected passwords and Zod input validation.
- Slot calculation and operational-duration rounding to fit services into scheduling intervals.
- Appointment creation logic, concurrency handling and admin-created bookings for customers.
- Booking and rounding tests, validation improvements and user documentation.
The detail that shaped the schedule
A service’s displayed duration does not always align with the intervals used by the calendar. I separated service duration from the time that must be blocked to avoid incorrectly calculated slots.
Working from the needs of a family-run salon helped us define customer and administration flows: what can be booked, who manages the calendar and how exceptional cases should be handled.
See the project in action
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Customers select services, check available slots and confirm an appointment. Administrators review the calendar, create appointments for customers and manage business settings.
Source code and documentation available.