HotelCore is a complete, production-ready hotel management system designed for hotels, resorts, guesthouses, and hostels. It includes everything you need to manage daily operations: room management, online and walk-in bookings, guest profiles, check-in/out, billing and invoicing, payment tracking, housekeeping schedules, maintenance requests, restaurant POS, inventory management, staff records, and comprehensive reports. Built with Laravel 11, Bootstrap 5, and MySQL, HotelCore features a stunning gold/glass-morphism theme, full responsiveness, and a role-based access system. Perfect for hoteliers who want a professional, scalable, and easy-to-use management solution.

✅ Complete Hotel Management – Rooms, bookings, guests, check-in/out, invoices, payments
✅ Housekeeping & Maintenance – Cleaning schedules, maintenance requests with priority levels
✅ Restaurant / POS – Order management, table booking, room service, kitchen orders
✅ Inventory Management – Items, suppliers, stock adjustments, low-stock alerts
✅ Staff Management – Employee records, roles, attendance, salary, position
✅ Reports – Revenue, occupancy, bookings, guests, rooms with interactive charts
✅ Role-Based Access – Admin, receptionist, manager, housekeeping, accountant, guest
✅ Modern UI – Gold/glass-morphism theme with premium hotel background
✅ Fully Responsive – Desktop, tablet, mobile with hamburger menu
✅ Settings Panel – Hotel name, logo, currency, tax rate, theme, check-in/out times
✅ Profile Management – User profile editing and password change
✅ Secure Authentication – Login, signup, logout, auto-guest profile creation

 PHP 8.1 or higher
- MySQL 5.7 or higher
- Composer
- Apache / Nginx web server
- Laravel 12
- Bootstrap 5 (included)
- Tailwind CSS (included)

Installation Guide

Follow the steps below to install and configure the Hotel Management System.

Step 1 – Upload the Project

Upload the project files to your web server or local development environment.

Step 2 – Install Composer Dependencies

Open your terminal or command prompt, navigate to the project directory, and run:

composer install --no-dev

Note: If your hosting provider does not offer SSH access, install the dependencies on your local machine and upload the generated vendor folder to your server.

Step 3 – Configure the Environment File

Locate the .env.example file in the project root and create a copy named .env.
Linux / macOS

cp .env.example .env

Windows

copy .env.example .env

Step 4 – Generate the Application Key

Run the following command:

php artisan key:generate

Step 5 – Configure the Database

Open the .env file and update the database credentials:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=your_database_name
DB_USERNAME=your_database_username
DB_PASSWORD=your_database_password

Replace the placeholder values with your actual database information.

Step 6 – Run Database Migrations & Seeders

Execute the following command:

php artisan migrate --seed
###/preul###Create all required database tables.
Seed the database with the default application data.
Create the default administrator account.
Insert the initial system settings.

Step 7 – Create the Storage Link

Run the following command to make uploaded files publicly accessible:

php artisan storage:link

Step 8 – Set Folder Permissions (Linux Servers Only)

Run the following commands:

chmod -R 775 storage bootstrap/cache
chmod -R 775 public/uploads

Step 9 – Configure Your Web Server

• Point your domain or virtual host's document root to the project's public directory.
• Apache: Ensure mod_rewrite is enabled.
• Nginx: Configure the server root to the public folder and route all requests through index.php.

Step 10 – Log In

After completing the installation, open your website in a browser and log in using the default administrator credentials.