Hotels
Hotels will need the ability to add, remove and update inventory, reverse charges, see bookings and manage their listings. They should be able to give full or partial refunds.
Users
Users will need the ability to view hotels in their immediate vicinity, look at photos, read descriptions, place bookings and chat with the hotel. They should also be able to add saved credit cards, remove cards, etc. Because you can’t use tokenized, saved credit cards across different API keys, we would need to implement a PCI-compliant frontend and backend for saving this information. The credit card and customer information would be "encrypted at rest" and need to be designed in such a way where anyone with access to the database cannot view sensitive information.
SInce integrating our own PCI-compliant frontend and backend, while possible, exposes us to legal issues that we don’t have the business infrastructure to support, our frontend iOS App will integrate with Apple Pay. We will give the customer three choices to Pay: Apple Pay, Paypal, Manual Entry or Pay At Counter.
However, the Hotels will have the choice of enabling or disabling any payment method.
Admins
Site Admins will need the ability to edit any information for both hotels and users