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Case study · DJ Holland

More parties booked, far less time on admin

DJ Holland runs nine event services and a calendar full of weddings from a single platform. The enquiry, the planning, the music and the guest photos now live in one place, in Dutch, English and Arabic.

Booking and party-management platform designed and built by SolutionsCrafters for DJ Holland. Live at app.dj-holland.nl.

dj-holland.nl
The DJ Holland homepage: the logo over a lit dance floor, the tagline about planning a wedding, proposal or corporate event, and the online request button.
01

Context

DJ Holland is an events company in Utrecht with more than 300 parties behind it. A wedding here is rarely just a DJ. It might be photography, decoration, a limousine, an Arabic buffet and a dance floor that has to stay full until the last song. Nine services, dozens of venues, and a team that's usually already on its way to the next celebration.

02

Challenge

Every booking used to land somewhere different. A message here, a call there, a note about the venue somewhere else. Confirming a date meant asking around first. Pinning down a couple's music turned into a long back-and-forth. The busier the season, the more of the team's evenings went to paperwork instead of parties.

03 · Approach

Approach

We designed around the two people who matter most: the couple booking the night, and the person holding the diary. Couples pick a service, a venue and a date in a few guided steps, so an enquiry arrives complete instead of half-finished. The team works from one calendar everyone trusts, with availability they control themselves. And because the party is the best part of the job, we handed the fun side to the couple: their own music programme, their own guest gallery. The whole platform speaks Dutch, English and Arabic, because DJ Holland's clients do.

System delivered

  • A guided public booking flow: service, then venue, then date
  • Nine bookable services and around 29 real wedding venues
  • A drag-and-drop music programme builder with iTunes and Deezer search
  • QR-code guest galleries, so guests upload their photos on the night
  • Admin for bookings, calendar, clients, services, venues and settings
  • Booking statuses, yearly reference numbering and CSV export
  • Blocked-dates control, plus Dutch, English and Arabic throughout

From the first enquiry to the last song

300+

parties and events delivered

Service

9 services

Venue

≈29 venues

Date

blocked-dates control

QR guest photo galleryOn the night
Drag-and-drop song programmeOn the night

04 · What changed

What changed

  1. 01One system where scattered messages and paperwork used to be
  2. 02Enquiries arrive complete, with service, venue and date already chosen
  3. 03Couples build their own music programme, so the team arrives knowing the night
  4. 04Guests fill the photo gallery themselves, and the couple wakes up to it
  5. 05More events handled without more hours spent on admin

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Technology

Next.jsPrisma + PostgreSQLQR guest galleries
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