Project Overview

StayWell is a complete hostel-management SaaS — "manage your hostel, the modern way." It pairs a polished public marketing site (find a room, transparent pricing, mess menu, resident reviews) with four role-based tiers — Super Admin, Hostel Owner, Warden/Admin and Student — covering the entire hostel lifecycle from discovery and booking to rent, mess, complaints and visitor management.

One platform for students, wardens and owners — discovery, bookings, rent, mess, complaints and visitors — multilingual, theme-aware and ready to ship.

Roles & Portals

• Public site: landing, room discovery, transparent pricing (seater × furnishing), mess menu and resident reviews.
• Student portal: for residents to find rooms, pay rent and manage their stay.
• Warden / Admin portal: day-to-day operations of a hostel.
• Hostel Owner portal: manage multiple hostels (e.g. Sunrise Residency, Greenwood Stay) from one place.

Student Features

• Find & book rooms by seater and furnishing, with a mess option.
• My Bookings with live status (active / pending / rejected).
• Payments & invoices — track dues and pay rent online.
• Mess menu and attendance; Gate Pass requests; Help & Complaints.
• Refer & Earn — wallet credits, a referral code and shareable link.
• Rate-your-stay reviews with moderation.

Warden / Admin Features

• Overview dashboard: occupancy, active residents, pending bookings, open complaints, revenue collected/due and room counts.
• Rooms & Pricing: rent auto-fills from a seater × furnishing matrix; add / edit / delete rooms.
• Bookings: approve or reject requests; Residents and Finance management.
• Complaints: priority + SLA tracking, assign to staff, start-working / mark-resolved.
• Visitors: approve entry requests and check-in; Notices & Analytics.
• Mess: weekly menu, attendance, ratings and meal feedback.

Platform & Experience

• Multi-language — English, हिन्दी and मराठी via i18n.
• Light & dark mode across the whole product.
• Notifications — in-app plus optional email, SMS and WhatsApp.

DevOps & Delivery

• Containerised with Docker for reproducible builds.
• CI/CD via GitHub Actions: build → test → deploy.
• Served behind Nginx and deployed to AWS.

From a marketing visitor's first click to a warden resolving a complaint, StayWell covers the full hostel lifecycle — a feature-rich, multilingual SaaS delivered through a clean, automated pipeline.