How to build a travel agency platform in Bubble

A travel agency platform in Bubble is built by creating Data Types for trips, bookings, users, and payments, designing pages that show searchable trip lists, and connecting them with workflows that let users book a trip and pay. The core idea is: store all trip info in the database, let users search and filter, let them confirm a booking, and use backend workflows to handle availability and confirmations reliably.

Core Structure

You need clear Bubble Data Types. These are your database “tables”. Each field holds info you display or calculate.

• Trip: title (text), description (text), location (text), start_date (date), end_date (date), price (number), images (list of images), seats\_available (number)
• Booking: user (User), trip (Trip), status (text), payment\_id (text)
• User: name, email, role (admin/traveler)

Frontend Pages

Create pages using Repeating Groups (RG). An RG lets you show a list of trips dynamically from the database.

• Home: search bar (input), filters (dates, price), RG showing Trips with “View details”.
• Trip details: show trip fields and a “Book now” button.
• Profile / Bookings: RG of Bookings for Current User.

Booking Flow

When user clicks “Book now”, create a Booking and send them to payment.

• Workflow: Data → Create a new Booking with status “pending”.
• Send user to payment page with the created booking’s ID in URL.

Payments (Stripe)

Use Bubble’s native Stripe plugin or API Connector. Stripe returns a payment ID you store in Booking.

• After Stripe success event: Make changes to Booking → status “paid”.

Backend Workflows

Use them for reliable operations like reducing seats after payment.

• Trigger: when Booking’s status becomes “paid”.
• Action: Make changes to Trip → seats_available = seats_available - 1.

// Example of backend workflow step (conceptual, not code)
// Step: Make changes to a thing (Trip)
// seats_available = This Trip's seats_available - 1

Privacy Rules

Ensure users only see their own bookings.

• Booking: “When Current User is This Booking’s user → readable”.

Admin Side

Create a hidden admin page.

• RG of all Trips with buttons to edit (using Make changes to thing).
• Form to create new Trip.