Booking Systems


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Booking Systems
	If you book a holiday, a theatre or cinema ticket, a train ticket, or a room in a hotel, there will probably be a computerised booking system processing it. Many booking systems are now web-based and bookings can be made over the Internet. The customer can search to find out what bookings are available, and then make and pay for the booking.
		Web-based booking systems are plentiful... ... and provide an easy way of making a booking from the comfort of your own home.
	Every booking system will have a database. This will include... Bookings table - storing fields such as BookingID, Date, CustomerID, Price,... Customers table -storing fields such as CustomerID, CustomerName, CustomerAddress, ... One big advantage of a computerised booking system is that there should be no double-booking - two people booking the same item. A booking system is an example of a real-time transaction system.
	Input : details of the booking from the customer. details of the customer data from the bookings database about availability.
	Processing : check availability validate customer details update of bookings database process of payment
	Output : customer details and booking details output to the bookings database booking confirmation given to customer printed reports on bookings
	On-line booking systems provide fast and convenient ways to make bookings.