Last Friday we shared our first weekly video update. In an effort to be more transparent with our community, we’ll be sharing videos and written updates every Friday detailing what the Bee Team is currently working on.

Sometimes crucial developments happen internally and these developments aren’t typically visible to the broader community. Here our Head of Engineering, Tommy Chheng, explains the internal tool our engineering team has been working on over the past few weeks. Watch the video and read about the update below:

Host Onboarding and Booking Management Tool for Admins

Bringing on new hosts and expanding Beenest’s offerings is a top priority for us. Today, we’re excited to share with the community a new tool that will speed up and optimize the onboarding process. This admin panel offers two main benefits:

Assists our operations team in creating and editing new listings with ease, crucially expediting the host approval process.

Allows our engineering and operations team to operate independently from one another, making the process considerably more efficient.

Technological Transition

We’ve moved away from using AngularJS to import listing and user info, instead opting to use GraphQL and React. This transition provides a few benefits:

Allows our front-end engineers to operate independently from our back-end engineers

Provides greater overall efficiency, speeding up product development

Over the last few weeks, our engineering team has been working on designing and engineering the various components of the admin panel to enable greater ease in managing bookings and creating host accounts & listings. As of this week, the tool is officially up and running and in use by our operations team — their positive feedback has been very encouraging! The most exciting part about this new admin panel is that we’ll ultimately be able to implement it as a self-service tool for our users so they’ll be empowered to perform true peer-to-peer actions on the platform.

That does it for our first community update! The team is hard at work — we’ll share a new development with the community later this week. Stay tuned!