MY Sauna: book a lakeside sauna in seconds
MY Sauna offers wood-fired saunas on the shores of Valais lakes, self-service and with no staff on site. The website therefore acts as the reception desk: we built the front end and back end, the booking system, the voucher and gift card shop and the presentation pages, with one obsession: display speed.
Our role · Front end, back end & online booking
The context
A venue with no reception, a website that does everything
At MY Sauna, nobody waits for customers behind a counter. Visitors discover the venue, choose their slot, pay and receive their access code without ever speaking to anyone. Every step of the online journey therefore has to be crystal clear, reassuring and, above all, fast.
Most bookings are made on a smartphone, often at the last minute and sometimes on a mountain connection. A page that takes several seconds to load is a sauna left empty.
What we built
From discovery to the sauna door
Real-time booking
Up-to-date availability for every sauna and every slot, with no risk of double booking.
Payment & access code
Secure online payment, then an access code sent automatically by text message before the session.
Vouchers & gift cards
An online shop to give a session or an amount as a gift, which can then be used directly when booking.
Presentation pages
Each venue has its own page: atmosphere, photos, directions, how a session works and tips to make the most of the sauna.
Custom back office
The team manages slots, closures, bookings and vouchers from an interface designed for them.
Bilingual website
Content and booking journey available in two languages, for local customers and visitors alike.
Performance
Speed as the priority, thanks to Next.js
We chose Next.js to combine rendering modes as precisely as possible. The presentation pages are generated in advance (SSG): they’re served from a CDN and display almost instantly, even on an average mobile network.
The live parts, such as availability or the basket, are rendered server-side (SSR) at request time, so they always show the real state of the slots. Images optimised and resized automatically, lazy loading, JavaScript cut down to the bare minimum: every millisecond saved serves conversion.
On the SEO side, this server rendering delivers complete, fast pages to Google, which counts directly in the Core Web Vitals and therefore in rankings.
In short
- bookings open, with no staff on site
- 24/7bookings open, with no staff on site
- languages for the whole journey
- 2languages for the whole journey
- presentation pages served from a CDN
- SSGpresentation pages served from a CDN
- single tool for bookings and gift cards
- 1single tool for bookings and gift cards
