ANATTA CULINARY ACADEMY

Anatta Culinary Academy had already spent RM 120,000 building a custom booking system on WordPress — and it still crashed every 30 minutes. To keep it alive, they kept scaling the server all the way to a $99/month plan, but the crashes never stopped. The system was unstable, bookings were being lost, and they were paying more every month for a platform that fundamentally could not handle their business.

• RM 120,000 already invested in a WordPress booking system that did not work
• Site crashing every 30 minutes during normal operations
• Kept upgrading servers — all the way to $99/mo — with no improvement
• Plugin conflicts and architectural limitations, not a hardware problem
• Lost bookings, frustrated students, and growing monthly hosting bill
• No integrated member portal, instructor dashboard, or recipe system
• Manual invoice generation and payment reconciliation

Rebuilt the entire platform from the ground up as a custom Laravel + React application abandoning the plugin-heavy WordPress approach completely. The new system handles class bookings, Stripe-powered checkout, a recipe catalog, events, member dashboards, an instructor portal, and an admin backend all as one unified codebase with zero plugin dependencies and a fraction of the hosting cost.

• Real-time class booking system with availability management
• Stripe-integrated cart and checkout with secure payment processing
• Recipe catalog with rich-text editor (TipTap) for content
• Events module with inquiry management and RSVP tracking
• Member dashboard with booking history and invoices
• Instructor portal for managing classes and schedules
• Admin panel for full content, order, and member management
• Automated PDF invoice generation and email delivery
• Google Reviews and testimonials integration
• Newsletter signup and CRM-ready customer data