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Hotel Management Database Design

Design a hotel database schema — room types, rooms, guests, bookings, and payments.

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What you get

  • Room types with rates separated from individual rooms
  • Bookings reserving a room for a check-in/check-out date range
  • Payments and add-on services attached to each booking

What this template is for

This hotel management database design gives you a ready-to-edit ER diagram for a hotel reservation and front-desk system. It models the entities every hotel system needs: room types with base rates, individual rooms of each type, guests, bookings that reserve a room for a date range, payments against those bookings, and optional add-on services. Use it to design a new hotel or property management system, document an existing database, or explain how room availability and bookings relate before writing a single migration.

When to use this template

  • Design the database for a hotel reservation or property management system.
  • Model the room-type vs individual-room distinction so rates and inventory stay separate.
  • Plan a booking system that prevents the same room being double-booked for overlapping dates.
  • Decide how payments and add-on services attach to a booking.
  • Document an existing hotel database for a new engineer.
  • Explain to stakeholders how availability is computed from rooms and bookings.

How to use it

  1. 1Start with RoomType (rate, capacity) and link individual Room records to it.
  2. 2Add a Guest table for the people making bookings.
  3. 3Add a Booking table referencing a guest and a room, with check-in and check-out dates.
  4. 4Add a Payment table linked to bookings to record amounts and methods.
  5. 5Add a Service table for add-ons (breakfast, spa) attached to a booking.
  6. 6Add cardinality: one room type has many rooms; one room has many bookings over time.

Quick example

Hotel reservation schema

RoomType (id, name, base_rate, capacity)
| 1 has many |
Room (id, room_type_id, number, floor, status)
| 1 booked as many |
Booking (id, guest_id, room_id, check_in, check_out, status)
| 1 paid by many |
Payment (id, booking_id, amount, method, paid_at)

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