Stay4work

Flexible booking solution driving increased revenue for Compass Group

Built with Sanity CMS, the Stay4Work platform was developed to solve a challenge of surplus rooms and develop a scale-able foundation for Compass Group's accommodation services.

Stay4work accommodation website displaying a search form and a banner with two construction workers, offering short and long-term stays.
TECH STACKSanity, React.js, Vercel
INDUSTRYAccommodation Services
YEAR2024 - Ongoing
WEBSITE
stay4work.no

What is Stay4Work?

Stay4Work is the digital platform that Compass Group built to help them do something seemingly simple: sell rooms. Compass Group manage around 10,000 rooms for workers across 40 locations, with the largest site housing up to 3,500 guests at a time. This means significant logistical challenges, and they needed a platform that could handle these.

What they needed was a modern marketing site with real booking capabilities, clear availability tracking, and a straightforward way for customers to get in touch with their team. On top of this, the platform needed to be able to scale and accommodate complex partner integrations. The choice of tech stack and approach would be crucial to ensure the solution didn’t become a blocker for future growth.

Compass Group led the project, bringing in Metro Branding for UX and concept, and Represent for all technical development, from architecture and backend systems to the frontend experience and multilingual capabilities.

The Challenge

Launching the Stay4Work service meant Compass Group needed a new online platform that would work with their existing tech and booking infrastructure and be able to grow and evolve as their business needs did.

There were several challenges to be considered:

  • No way for users too book accommodation on a digital platform
  • Existing system was reliant on email or phone bookings
  • Complex user flows involving multiple guests, rooms, check-ins, and check-outs
  • Need for multilingual support (Norwegian and English first)
  • Multiple integrations eg. for accounting, payments, invoicing, bookings
  • Requirement for strong security, GDPR compliance, and authentication

In short: The team needed a flexible, modern tech stack and a partner they could trust to manage other stakeholders and build a product designed to grow.

The Choice

Represent work with a range of experienced agency partners who are aligned with our focus on quality and communication. One of our most harmonious partnerships is with Metro design agency, who introduced us to Stay4Work. We were the right fit because of our strength in product-focused development, Sanity expertise, and experience building scalable custom platforms

The project followed a lean, iterative build-measure-learn approach, enabling us to test assumptions early, adjust user flows rapidly, and collaborate seamlessly with Metro Branding on UX and design refinement.

We architected the platform using a modern, scalable stack:

  • Sanity CMS → For all content, translations, T&Cs, and static pages
  • Next.js + React + Tailwind → Fast, stable frontend with responsive UI
  • Vercel → Robust hosting and CI
  • Cloudflare → DNS, routing, and security

This combination allowed the team to move quickly while ensuring the product remained stable, scalable, and secure.

Mobile screenshot of stay4work.com's 'Our camps' page, with text describing flexible accommodation solutions and an aerial photo of an industrial waterfront city at sunset.
A white web interface displays the Stay4work "Your order" page with Camp Drammen booking details, including check-in/out dates, guest count, and a progress bar.

The Solution

Represent delivered the full technical foundation for Stay4Work, frontend, backend, integrations, CMS setup, and QA.

Full booking flow development

  • Development of the end to end flow from accommodation selection to booking confirmation. Ensuring this system would also work when we later add group bookings.

User authentication & My Page

  • A crucial factor was the creation of one time password system for secure, frictionless authentication. To enable better user experience we also developed a user dashboard and profile for booking overview.

Admin portal

  • A custom admin portal was built outside of Sanity, connecting directly to backend data models with management tools for bookings, users, and content, and a scalable database deployment setup for long-term growth.

Integrations

  • Built on Sanity and Next.js, the platform is ready to support future integrations with key business systems as needs evolve.

Content and CMS

  • The Sanity CMS architecture that was developed gives Stay4Work full flexibility when it comes to what content they want to feature, and a composable translation layer makes converting this content into any new languages possible.

Project management & QA

  • Our team at Represent always strives for a smooth delivery. Throughout this development process that meant clear workflows and responsibilities, and close collaboration with the Metro designers. At launch this means thorough checks and QA cycles to make for a smooth release.
A 'stay4work' website interface displaying a banner reading 'Stay for short' and an open chat widget saying 'How can we help?'.
Mobile screen for "stay4work" displaying a login form with an email field and button, along with contact details and cookie consent options.

Next Steps

Stay4Work launched with a modern, stable, and scalable MVP, built for iteration and scale. They have some immediate plans for what needs to happen next but the sky is the limit with this headless setup.

What Comes Next

  • Create a simplified solution for group reservations, with easy data input that allows large bookings, of up to several hundred guests, to be simultaneously managed.
  • Dedicated internal statistics view to provide insights into bookings, trends, and other relevant data
  • Onboard more camps so that spare capacity can possible be utilised across all sites