Venue Booking & Compliance SaaS for Local Governments

Every council manages venues differently: availability rules, fee structures, approval workflows and payment gateways vary from one municipality to the next, yet the platform had to serve them all from a single codebase. It also had to cover the full spectrum of public-sector needs — from casual hall hire and high-volume seasonal sports applications to on-site compliance inspections and social-inclusion reporting — without redeployment for each tenant's configuration.

We built a full-stack TypeScript monorepo: a React 19 single-page application (Vite, React Router 7, Mantine UI v8) backed by an Express 5 API organized into 45+ feature modules over MySQL. A middleware pipeline resolves each request's subdomain and dynamically switches the database context at runtime, so every council operates on isolated data within the same deployment. The frontend is JSON-driven: pages arrive from the API as configuration schemas rendered through a lazy-loaded registry of 500+ components — 143 form components, 264 presets and 135 UI primitives — letting each tenant compose its own screens without code changes. Community bookings run through a granular rule engine with availability schedules, fee matrices, casual-versus-regular restrictions and automated clash detection, while FullCalendar powers interactive scheduling and a stagnant-booking tracker flags applications idle for more than 7 days. Seasonal sports allocations get dedicated portals with Expression of Interest flows so officers can prioritize clubs before bookings go live, and field officers run mobile inspections with photo uploads and instant PDF reports generated server-side with react-pdf, jspdf and pdfkit. Azure MSAL provides enterprise SSO, files live in Azure Blob Storage, Google Maps drives venue selection, and PCI-DSS-compliant checkout supports PayPal and council payment gateways alongside deferred invoicing — with participation and inclusion analytics helping councils evaluate their fair-access policies.