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Event Booking

How Creuto Built an All-in-One Event Booking Platform That Simplified Venue and Vendor Management for Modern Consumers

A mobile-first platform enabling users to discover, compare, and book venues and vendors for weddings, birthdays, and private events โ€” all from a single app, built and delivered by Creuto end to end.

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8โ€“12

Vendors Per Event (Unified)

1

App to Plan Everything

0

Phone Calls Needed to Book

100%

Real-Time Availability

Client

Skyeone

Industry

Event Technology / Venue Booking

Services

Mobile App Development

Vendor Onboarding System

Real-Time Scheduling Engine

Admin Panel

Backend Architecture

Project Overview

Planning an event has always required the same exhausting sequence: search across a dozen platforms, call individual vendors, negotiate separately, confirm availability over WhatsApp, and hope everything aligns on the day. The client came to Creuto with a specific mandate: eliminate that friction entirely.

The brief was to build Skyeone, a mobile application that consolidates venue discovery, vendor booking, service bundling, and scheduling into a single, seamless experience. Whether a user is planning a wedding for 300 guests or an intimate birthday celebration, Skyeone gives them one place to handle every element of the event.

Creuto designed and delivered the complete product end to end:

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A consumer-facing mobile application for iOS and Android

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A vendor-side onboarding and profile management system

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A real-time scheduling and availability engine preventing cross-vendor conflicts

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An admin panel for platform operations and vendor management

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A multi-service checkout and booking confirmation flow

This was a complete product engagement. Creuto handled product scoping, UX design, backend engineering, mobile development, and cloud deployment โ€” all under one team, one contract.

The Problem We Were Solving

Fragmented venue and vendor discovery

No unified catalogue meant users spent hours across Instagram, Google, and word-of-mouth before making a single call. Vendor quality, pricing, and availability were impossible to compare without direct outreach. First-time event planners had no structured way to understand what services they actually needed.

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No single place to discover venues and vendors together

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Quality, pricing, and availability impossible to compare without calls

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First-time planners had no guidance on services they would need

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Word-of-mouth and Instagram were the primary discovery channels

Every vendor operated their own informal booking process โ€” phone calls, WhatsApp messages, or in-person visits. Confirmation was verbal or over messaging, with no digital record or booking contract.

No centralised booking system or pricing transparency

Cancellations and reschedules had no formal system, leading to disputes and last-minute failures. Payments were collected independently with no consolidated receipt or transaction history. Most vendors did not publish rates โ€” pricing was revealed only after direct contact.

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Verbal confirmations with no digital record or contract

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No formal cancellation or reschedule system

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Payments collected independently per vendor with no consolidated receipt

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Most vendors did not publish rates โ€” pricing only after direct contact

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Hidden charges for travel, extended hours, or additions were common surprises

Time-consuming multi-vendor coordination with no real-time availability

A single wedding required coordinating with 8โ€“12 separate vendors: venue, decorator, caterer, mehendi artist, makeup team, choreographer, photographer, and more. Scheduling conflicts between vendors were discovered late, often within days of the event.

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Users built entire event plans around vendors who turned out to be unavailable

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Date conflicts only discovered after multiple rounds of back-and-forth

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No mechanism to hold a time slot while a user finalised their decision

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Every change โ€” new date, revised headcount โ€” required notifying every vendor individually

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No single view of confirmed vs. pending bookings across all service providers

Key Features of the Skyeone Platform

Venue Discovery and Booking

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Users discover venues filtered by event type, location, capacity, and budget. Each listing shows availability, gallery images, amenity details, and direct pricing. A calendar-based availability grid lets users check open dates, select a time slot, and confirm a booking โ€” all without leaving the app.

Real-time slot management prevents double bookings. Smart sorting (price, popularity, availability) helps users narrow options quickly without endless browsing.

Vendor Marketplace

02

A structured marketplace covering decoration services, makeup artists, nail artists, dressing stylists, mehendi artists, choreographers, photographers, and other event professionals. Each vendor has a profile page with service descriptions, portfolio images, pricing tiers, ratings, and a verified badge.

Users browse by service category, filter by availability and price range, and submit a booking request directly through the app.

Integrated Service Bundling

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Unlike traditional platforms, Skyeone connects venue booking directly with vendor services in the same booking flow. Users select a venue, then add decorators, makeup artists, photographers, and other vendors with schedules automatically cross-checked for conflicts.

One checkout for the complete event package. Eliminates the back-and-forth coordination that defined the previous experience.

Real-Time Scheduling and Availability Engine

04

The availability engine prevents double bookings across all venue and vendor calendars simultaneously. Users hold a time slot while finalising their decision. Scheduling conflicts between multiple vendors are detected and flagged before booking โ€” not discovered on event day.

Seamless Multi-Vendor Booking Flow

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Step-by-step booking flow: select venue, choose date and time, add services, review the complete package, and confirm with full cost visibility. All booking details captured within the platform. Users get a single source of truth for their entire event setup.

Vendors receive structured booking requests with complete event requirements rather than informal enquiries over messaging apps.

Vendor Onboarding and Profile Management

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A vendor-side system for onboarding, profile creation, portfolio management, pricing setup, availability calendar management, and booking request handling. Replaces the previous patchwork of WhatsApp, phone calls, and in-person quotes with a structured platform that scales.

Rakesh Sharma
Rakesh Sharma
Founding Team, Skyeone

Skyeone solved a problem every family planning a wedding faces โ€” the endless back-and-forth across a dozen vendors with nothing written down. Creuto built a platform that finally makes event planning feel as simple as booking a flight.

Why Marketplace Founders Choose Creuto

Marketplace platforms with real-time scheduling, multi-vendor coordination, and service bundling are technically complex to build correctly. Here is what makes Creuto the right partner.

We engineer scheduling correctness from the start

Real-time availability with conflict detection across multiple vendors and venues requires careful state management. We architect the scheduling engine as a first-class system โ€” not a calendar bolt-on added at the end.

We design for both sides of the marketplace

A marketplace platform serves consumers and vendors simultaneously. We design experiences for both โ€” consumer discovery and booking flows, and vendor onboarding and profile management โ€” as one coherent product.

We deliver the complete product

Consumer app, vendor management system, scheduling engine, admin panel, and backend API โ€” delivered as one coherent platform under one contract. No integration work left for the client.

Fixed scope. Fixed price.

After discovery, Creuto provides a detailed scope document and a fixed-cost proposal. No vague estimates, no change order surprises โ€” just predictable delivery.

TECHNOLOGY STACK

Our Technology Stack

Every technology chosen for cross-vendor scheduling integrity, real-time slot updates, and the ability to handle high-stakes event bookings without errors.

Mobile

React Native
Expo

Frontend (Web)

Next.js
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS

Backend

Node.js
Express
REST API

Scheduling Engine

Custom Availability Engine
Conflict Detection

Database

PostgreSQL
Redis

Payments

Razorpay
UPI
Cards

Cloud & DevOps

AWS
Docker
CI/CD

Our App Development Process

From mapping the complete event planning journey for consumers and vendors to deploying a real-time scheduling engine โ€” built end to end under one contract.

01

Discovery & Product Scoping

Mapped the complete event planning journey from a consumer and vendor perspective. Defined the service bundling model, scheduling conflict rules, vendor onboarding flow, and admin oversight requirements before design began.

Delivered: Scope document, scheduling state model, and per-role workflow maps.
02

UI/UX Design

End-to-end Figma designs for consumer mobile app and vendor management interface. Venue discovery, vendor marketplace, and multi-service checkout designed for minimum steps to booking confirmation. Availability calendar designed for immediate comprehension without instruction.

Delivered: Complete design system, prototypes for both sides of the marketplace.
03

Core Platform Development

Backend API, venue and vendor registry, booking state machine, and user authentication. Consumer app and vendor management system developed in parallel with shared API contracts and typed component libraries.

Delivered: Working consumer app and vendor management system.
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Scheduling Engine and Bundling Logic

Real-time availability engine with cross-vendor conflict detection. Service bundling checkout flow with dynamic package pricing. Slot hold and reservation expiry logic built and validated under concurrent booking scenarios.

Delivered: Production scheduling engine validated against concurrent-booking edge cases.
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QA & Testing

End-to-end booking flow testing across consumer and vendor roles. Scheduling conflict edge cases tested at scale. Payments security review and refund flow validation. Device matrix testing across iOS and Android.

Delivered: QA sign-off, payments audit, and scheduling correctness tests.
06

Launch & Vendor Onboarding

App Store and Play Store submissions. Vendor onboarding support with profile and portfolio setup guidance. Production infrastructure deployed on AWS. Two-week hypercare window for live operational issues.

Delivered: Live consumer app, onboarded vendor base, and active booking operations.

How Creuto Works With Marketplace Founders

Marketplaces fail when one side is solved and the other is forgotten. We treat consumer and vendor as equally important customers โ€” vendor onboarding has to be as smooth as consumer checkout. We sit with both sides during discovery. We test both sides during QA.

Skyeone shipped with a working two-sided marketplace, real-time scheduling, and a vendor base ready to take live bookings โ€” all under one engagement.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about building a product like this with Creuto.

The availability engine maintains a centralised calendar for every venue and vendor on the platform. When a user selects a date and time, the system checks availability across all selected services simultaneously and flags any conflict before checkout. A slot hold mechanism reserves the time while the user finalises the booking.

Yes. Vendors access a management interface where they control their availability calendar, service pricing, package options, portfolio images, and profile details. Availability updates reflect immediately in the consumer app โ€” no manual sync or platform support required.

Yes. Skyeone supports weddings, birthday celebrations, corporate events, and private gatherings. Venue and vendor listings are tagged by event type and the discovery layer filters accordingly. The platform architecture supports adding new event categories without structural changes.

A full event booking marketplace with real-time scheduling, vendor marketplace, and service bundling typically takes 4โ€“5 months from discovery to launch. We always begin with a scoping sprint to produce an accurate fixed-price estimate before committing.

A two-sided marketplace with consumer app, vendor system, scheduling engine, and admin panel typically costs between $50,000 and $110,000 USD depending on payment integration depth, geography, and feature surface. Creuto provides a fixed-cost proposal after discovery.

Want to Build an Event Booking Platform Like This?

Whether you focus on weddings, corporate events, or hospitality bookings โ€” Creuto builds two-sided marketplaces with real-time scheduling and a vendor system your operators will actually use.

Two-sided. Real-time scheduling. Service bundling. One team. Fixed price.

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