Owning the Checkout Instead of Renting It
A custom registration and checkout platform for multi-day motor-coach trips — built to replace a per-transaction SaaS fee with direct Stripe processing, atomic inventory, and an operations layer that runs itself.
Land Cruise Vacations sells multi-day trips with limited seats, multiple price tiers, add-ons, and group pricing — not a business a Stripe checkout link can run.
A hosted registration platform handled it, and it worked — but its per-transaction fees ate real margin on every booking, across every guest, every trip, every season. The product underneath those fees was, functionally, a form builder with payment processing bolted on.
We built Regy Pro: a registration platform we own end-to-end, embedded directly on landcruisevacations.com instead of bouncing guests to a third-party checkout.
- A single well-structured checkout — package picker with a live total summary, then guest info, travelers, dietary needs, signature, and payment in one flow, no bouncing between pages.
- Payments run through Stripe directly — card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Stripe Link, all live without a separate integration, and we pay Stripe's processing rate with nothing layered on top.
- Inventory is never held. Seats and add-ons are claimed only at the instant an order completes, inside one atomic database transaction — no reservation timers, no abandoned-cart cleanup, no zombie holds. Two buyers racing for the last room both get an honest answer.
- Every inventory movement — stock, adjustment, claim, release — writes to an audit log with who, when, and why.
- Refunds (full or partial, with retry logic), order edits that auto-generate and email a balance-due payment link, and offline payments (checks, cash, comps) are all handled with the same rigor as a card charge, plus a daily payout report nobody has to ask for.
- Every confirmation, cancellation, refund, and reminder email passes through a durable outbox — written to the database before it's handed to the delivery provider, so a failed send retries instead of vanishing.
- Role-based access enforced at the API, an audit log on every state change, deny-by-default database policies, and end-to-end browser tests on checkout, refunds, and receipts running against a fresh server on every deploy.
The Stack
$0
Platform fees — Stripe's processing rate only, nothing layered on top
Zero holds
Inventory claimed atomically at order completion, not reserved on entry
155 commits
From spec to production, over two months
Now a product
What started as our own checkout is now sold to other operators
“Building software is no longer hard. The math has flipped.”
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