Mr Wombat Cleaning Services is a Gold Coast-based cleaning business that offers both domestic and commercial cleaning.
It specialises in cleaning short-term rental properties available through platforms like Airbnb.
Approach
Mr Wombat needed a software bridge between its job scheduling tool, Jobber, and short-term rental platforms like Airbnb.
At the time of our engagement, the Mr Wombat admin team had to manually copy data between systems, leading to costly errors and hours of lost time each week.
The middleware dashboard shows that Jobber is connected and ready to sync. A report detailing the jobs that staff need to invoice for can be generated by clicking the button on the right.
Infrastructure
To avoid expensive software licensing fees, we built with Laravel and Tailwind, two open-source code frameworks.
We also hosted the new middleware on a virtual private server (VPS), which avoids resource-sharing and keeps both performance and uptime as high possible.
Finally, we automated all data syncing and report preparation.
Now, the Mr Wombat admin team can open the middleware and get any information they need in just a handful of clicks.
Function
Mr Wombat’s new middleware retrieves bookings from short-term rental platforms and compiles them in a list that can be filtered or sorted.
When Mr Wombat staff want to sync a given job with Jobber, they can click the ‘Sync’ button.
The middleware then collects the details of that job from the short-term rental platform – information like start time and date, line items, and invoicing – and passes it to Jobber in a compatible format.
Jobber then stays connected with the middleware for that job, allowing Mr Wombat staff to review all previously synced jobs.
The settings panel lets the Mr Wombat team control different aspects of the middleware. In the current screen, automatic syncing can be turned on for each API, which can then be included/excluded per individual property.
The settings panel lets the Mr Wombat team control different aspects of the middleware. In the current screen, automatic syncing can be turned on for each API, which can then be included/excluded per individual property.
Function
When a job is updated or cancelled on a rental platform, the middleware receives a notification.
Every 10 minutes, it checks those notifications against existing bookings.
If an existing booking is modified, the middleware sends an email detailing exactly what’s changed to the Mr Wombat admin team, allowing them to stay on top of all jobs in near-real time.
Team Member Name
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Watching: TV
Listening: Music
Reading: Book
Drinking: Drink
Quoting: Quote
Obsessed With: Love
Why I love what I do:
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