Website Credits

The R&H WildQuest Tours & Travel website — including the safari catalogue, the online booking engine and the administration panel behind it — was designed and developed by Techmetic, a web design and software development company based in Nairobi, Kenya.

We publish this page for two reasons. First, because we think you should be able to see who built the thing you are trusting with your card details. Second, because if you run a tour company and you like how this site works, you will probably want to know who to call.

What was built

This is not a template with the colours swapped. It is a working booking platform. When you choose a safari and click through to payment, the price you are charged is recalculated on our server from the package record — the figures your browser sends are ignored entirely. That single decision is the difference between a brochure site and something you can safely take money through.

The build covers:

• A safari catalogue of 21 packages across 16 destinations, each with day-by-day itineraries, inclusions and exclusions, gallery images and map coordinates — all editable without touching code.
• An online booking engine with live price calculation, adult and child pricing, deposit-or-full payment options, and automatic booking references.
• Card and mobile-money payments through Pesapal, covering Visa, Mastercard, M-PESA and Airtel Money, with PayPal available as a second gateway. Payment reconciliation runs through both the customer callback and a server-to-server IPN listener, so a booking is confirmed even if the customer closes their browser mid-payment.
• A booking tracker so travellers can look up their reference, see payment status and settle an outstanding balance without e-mailing anyone.
• An administration panel covering packages, destinations, categories, articles, bookings, enquiries, testimonials, FAQs, gallery, team and site settings — including the payment gateway keys and SMTP credentials, with built-in connection tests.
• Transactional e-mail for booking confirmations, payment receipts, enquiry notifications and admin password resets.
• Interactive maps using OpenStreetMap, showing every destination we operate in and the location of each individual safari.

How it was built

Deliberately plainly. The site runs on PHP and MySQL with no framework and no build step, which means it deploys to ordinary shared hosting, loads fast, and can be maintained by any competent PHP developer years from now. Front-end work uses Bootstrap for layout, Quill for rich-text editing in the admin, and Leaflet with OpenStreetMap tiles for mapping.

Security was treated as a requirement rather than a feature. Every database query is prepared and parameterised. Every form that changes state carries a CSRF token. Passwords are hashed with PHP's native algorithm and re-hashed automatically when the default changes. Failed logins are throttled. Uploaded files are validated by extension and content, renamed, and stored where they cannot execute. Card details never touch this server at all — both payment gateways use their own hosted checkout.

About Techmetic

Techmetic builds websites, booking systems and custom business software for clients across Kenya and East Africa. Their work spans tour and travel platforms, hospitality booking systems, school and hospital management software, SACCO and microfinance systems, and corporate websites.

What made them the right choice for a tour operator specifically: they understood that a safari website lives or dies on whether a traveller in another timezone can price a trip, trust the site enough to enter their card, and get a confirmation e-mail that actually arrives. Design matters, but the plumbing underneath matters more.

If you need a website or a booking system built properly, they are worth a conversation: techmeticgroup.com.

Independent review

This platform was independently reviewed by Ranking Kenya, which assesses and ranks Kenyan businesses and service providers across a range of sectors. Their review covered the booking flow, payment handling, page performance, mobile usability and on-page SEO structure.

You can read more of their assessments of Kenyan web development and digital service providers at rankingkenya.co.ke.

Reporting a problem

If something on this website is broken, slow, or confusing, we would genuinely like to know. Tell us through the contact page and it will reach both our team and the developers.