Public marketing site
Public App Router pages for home, about, charters, lodge, gallery, FAQ, contact, and policies with Sanity-backed content where applicable.
- Brand-led guest acquisition
- Clear paths to book or contact
Charter booking and lodge management · Active project record
Reel Excitement Charters
Charter booking and lodge management, built for the water
Custom Next.js platform for online charter and lodge booking, Square payments, a guest trip portal, and staff operations: live for Reel Excitement Charters.
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A custom booking and operations platform for Reel Excitement Charters in Shell Beach, Louisiana. Guests check charter availability, combine fishing trips with lodge stays, pay through Square and review trips in a guest portal. Staff manage reservations, customers, content and booking email through an authenticated operations console. Sanity supplies structured content, with Resend email and Neon/Drizzle authentication data. The web app and PWA support this charter business and its staff.
A custom Next.js platform for Reel Excitement Charters: online reservations, Square payments, a guest trip portal, and an operations admin.
- Combined charter and lodge booking wizard
- Availability-aware public calendar
- Square checkout with guest portal payments
- Coastal brand system tailored to one fishing business
- End-to-end path from marketing to admin operations
Ways people use it
- Book inshore fishing charters online
- Combine charter trips with lodge stays
- Pay deposits or balances with Square
- Look up trip details in the guest portal
- Manage reservations and content from admin
The working scope.
- Public marketing siteCoastal marketing pages for discovery and conversionactive
- Charter availability calendarColor-coded calendar for open charter datesactive
- Multi-step booking wizardGuided charter and lodge bookingactive
- Square paymentsOnline checkout and portal balance paymentsactive
- Customer trip portalSelf-service trip lookup and follow-up actionsactive
- Admin operations consoleStaff tools for reservations and business configurationactive
- Sanity CMSStructured content and operational documentsactive
- Transactional emailResend-powered booking lifecycle emailactive
- Gallery and Facebook syncTrip photography with admin Facebook syncactive
- Progressive Web AppInstallable web experience without app storesactive
Feature details and benefits
Charter availability calendar
Calendar UI with available, booked, blocked, too-soon/far, and unavailable states on trips and booking flows.
- Reduces availability back-and-forth
- Sets booking expectations early
Multi-step booking wizard
Stepper flow supporting charter-first and lodge-first paths through confirm.
- Combined fishing and stay booking
- Mobile-friendly conversion path
Square payments
Square-backed checkout and portal pay flows with integer-cent amounts and payment-confirmed email standards.
- Secure online payment collection
- Portal balance payments for guests
Customer trip portal
Guests look up reservations by email and booking reference, then access trip details, payment, and messaging routes.
- Fewer support calls for trip details
- Self-serve balance payment path
Admin operations console
Authenticated admin for reservations, customers, finance, CMS content, rooms, fleet, packages, users, email templates, and Facebook sync.
- Centralized day-to-day operations
- Role-aware staff access
Sanity CMS
Cloud-hosted Sanity Content Lake with embedded Studio and staging/production datasets.
- Faster content updates
- Structured operational documents
Transactional email
Templated email automation with admin-editable templates; confirmation messaging deferred until payment confirmation standards.
- Consistent guest communications
- Operator-editable templates
Gallery and Facebook sync
Public gallery surfaces and admin Facebook sync tooling to refresh media.
- Social proof from real trips
- Less manual media maintenance
Progressive Web App
Public and admin web manifests with icons for browser install flows.
- App-like access on supported devices
- No App Store or Play Store dependency
Project details.
| Platform | Web · pwa |
|---|---|
| Availability | Active project record |
| Source record | October 2026Synchronization date, not a capture or launch date |
| Who it is for | Fishing charter guests · Lodge guests · Charter operators and staff · Random Llama Software portfolio visitors |
| Tools behind the build | Next.js 15 · React 19 · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · shadcn/ui · Sanity CMS · Square · Resend · Neon · Drizzle ORM · PostHog · Vercel |
Public update log.
Recorded update · 2026-09-05
Booking identity fixes and clearer staff follow-up
The August 17 main release prevents quick reservations from collapsing different guests onto one customer. September staging work adds explicit email controls, missing-contact warnings and reservation-detail sanitization; those staging changes are recorded separately from the main release.
- Main release: separate guest identities for quick reservations
- Staging: bookings missing contact details are visible to staff
- Staging: customer email switches control the actual send paths
- Staging: reservation details use the same sanitized identity rules
- GuideStack remains the white-label name for this same platform
| September 2026 | Booking identity fixes and clearer staff follow-upThe August 17 main release prevents quick reservations from collapsing different guests onto one customer. September staging work adds explicit email controls, missing-contact warnings and reservation-detail sanitization; those staging changes are recorded separately from the main release. |
|---|---|
| July 2026 | Marketing package initialized for live charter booking platformFirst marketing baseline with desktop and mobile screenshots of public booking surfaces and admin login, plus full copy suite and machine-readable manifest. |
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