holiday-property-booking/01-intake-and-scope.md

01. Intake and Scope

Purpose

Define the project boundary, MVP target, and the decisions needed before design or implementation starts.

Scope

• Confirm the project is a responsive holiday property booking website for one business with multiple properties.
• Confirm the MVP includes:
  • public browsing
  • property detail pages
  • availability search
  • booking flow
  • Stripe Checkout
  • confirmation/failure handling
  • booking/admin management
  • editable content
  • email notifications
  • basic SEO
• Record anything explicitly out of scope.
• Lock the approved technical direction for planning:
  • Next.js + TypeScript
  • Bootstrap 5 + SCSS
  • Next.js server routes/API layer for the MVP backend
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prisma
  • session-based admin auth
  • Stripe Checkout + webhooks
  • transactional email provider abstraction
  • S3-compatible image storage
  • Docker-based dev/qa/prod environments

What Needs to Be Done

• Extract the key business goals from the spec.
• List the product areas that need separate planning.
• Identify unresolved questions and assumptions.
• Establish the delivery phase order.
• Set the approval gate for the next document.

Proposed Phase Order

1. Intake and scope
2. Content architecture and data model
3. Public website and search
4. Booking, availability, and pricing
5. Payments and notifications
6. Admin console
7. SEO, accessibility, and performance
8. Implementation plan and launch readiness

Acceptance Criteria

• The MVP scope is written in one place.
• The non-MVP items are clearly marked.
• Open questions are listed, not hidden inside later docs.
• The approved stack is recorded for the project.
• The phase order is explicit and reviewable.
• The next planning step is obvious and sequenced.

Dependencies

• Functional specification review.
• Agreement on what counts as MVP.

Notes

• This document is the start of the project plan, not a build task.