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Hi all,

I thought this forum will be helpful for me, but I am dissappointed that nobody wants to help me. Its sad as I am in desperate need of help.

Let me restate what I want. I need to develop the project module for my project. Its about developing and maintaining an e-commerce website, that sells airline tickets. Can anybody suggest me what modules will the project have. For example:

Reservation Management,
Shipping,
Billing,

I need to know what functionalities my modules will have.

Your help will be really appreciated.


Thanks!

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For (and in the spirit of 's nudge to keep questions public): the right decomposition for an airline-ticket e-commerce site centers on the customer flow (search → price → hold → pay → issue) plus the supporting operational systems. Below is a compact, implementation-focused breakdown of modules and the key responsibilities each should carry.

  • Booking & Search — multi-leg/multi-city search, calendar/lowest-fare queries, fare rule validation, cached fare tokens, seat availability check and hold.
  • Inventory & Ticketing — host/GDS or airline API integration, fare parsing and mapping, e-ticket issuance, ticket-number lifecycle, interline/codeshare handling.
  • Payment & Financials — gateway integrations, tokenization, 3-D Secure/3DS flows, refunds/voids, settlement and reconciliation, tax and fee breakdowns.
  • Ancillaries & Fulfillment — baggage, seat/meal/upgrades, promo/voucher redemption, electronic delivery of tickets and receipts.
  • Orders & Customer Service — PNR lifecycle, modifications, cancellations, refunds, manual support tools and audit trails.
  • Accounts & Loyalty — traveler profiles, saved passengers, frequent-flyer linking, vouchers and credits.
  • Notifications & Communications — transactional email/SMS/push with retry and audit.
  • Admin, Reporting & Ops — fare/pricing management, finance reports, KPIs, role-based access and throttling controls.
  • Security & Compliance — TLS, PCI-DSS controls, token storage, data-retention and privacy rules, fraud detection.

Operational and technical notes: implement idempotent operations (payments, booking calls), place short reservation holds with automatic expiry and reconciliation, use a central pricing/validation service so search and issue use identical rules, and prefer asynchronous workflows (message queues, sagas) for cross-system consistency. Instrument everything: metrics, tracing and business-level alerts (failed issues, fare mismatches, reconciliation exceptions).

Common trouble spots and mitigations: fare drift between search and ticketing (use fare tokens and server-side revalidation), duplicate bookings from retry storms (idempotency keys), partial refunds and accounting gaps (automated reconciliation jobs plus manual override UI). Prioritize delivering a minimal end-to-end flow (search → hold → pay → issue), then extend ancillaries, reporting and scaling.

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No, your mistake was asking for private help.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#noprivate

I just ignored the PM you sent me, and I rather suspect everyone else you sent a PM to also ignored you. It's not the way we work around here.

> I need to know what functionalities my modules will have.
Have you ever visited an online travel agency type web site before?

Your initial list seems reasonable.

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Well, I didn't get much time to read FAQs, and I am at fault here. I apologise.

Thanks for replying!

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