Chesapeake Beach Water Park

Your park. Your platform.

A custom website and management platform for Chesapeake Beach Water Park — online ticketing, season passes, reservations, and a back office built around how the park actually runs.

Proposal · July 2026

Why custom, in one paragraph

Off-the-shelf ticketing platforms charge per-transaction fees that sting at water-park volume, force their workflows onto your staff, and keep your customer data on their servers. This platform flips that: you own the storefront, the data, and the guest relationship — with hosting costs near zero in the off-season and infrastructure that scales automatically for a hot Saturday morning ticket rush. Everything below is already built as a clickable mockup you can try right now.

The storefront — two directions to choose from

Both concepts use the park's real photos, real brand colors, and hand-picked typography. Fun, but never cartoonish. Try them on your phone — every animation and menu works.

chesapeakebeachwaterpark.com — Concept 1
Cannonball concept home page

1 · Cannonball

Lilita One + Nunito

Warm and family-first. A full-photo hero, chunky rounded type, tilted photo prints with color pops, and springy buttons. The friendliest of the two.

View live concept →
chesapeakebeachwaterpark.com — Concept 2
The Big Splash concept home page

2 · The Big Splash

Passion One + Figtree

Bold and energetic. A full-screen aerial hero over the bay, edge-to-edge photo strips, and giant condensed type. Feels like a big-league attraction.

View live concept →

Park Manager — the back office

An eight-module admin built for the front desk, the events team, and you — explore it live. Every screen below is clickable today.

Park Manager — Dashboard
Admin dashboard
Morning dashboardRevenue, attendance vs capacity, 14-day sales trend, cabanas, and pending party leads — before your coffee's done.
Park Manager — Reservations
Reservations cabana map
Live cabana mapEvery cabana at a glance — who's in it, how many guests, what's still open to sell today.
Park Manager — Season Pass
Season pass detail page
Full-depth recordsOrders, customers, and passes each get a complete page — scan history, payment trail, timeline, and one-click actions.
Park Manager — Party Inquiries
Party inquiry pipeline
Party pipelineWebsite inquiries land as leads and move New → Contacted → Booked with one click. No more sticky notes.

What it does

Guest storefront

  • Date-based day tickets with live pricing
  • Season pass sales with tier comparison
  • Cabana & locker add-ons in the cart
  • Promo & group discount codes
  • Checkout embedded on your site (Stripe)
  • Birthday party inquiry form → admin pipeline
  • Guest accounts with "My Wallet"
  • Mobile-first — most guests buy on phones

Tickets & passes

  • QR gate tokens issued with every order
  • Scannable passes in the guest's wallet
  • Scan tracking — gate, time, duplicates blocked
  • Family passes linked in one household
  • Gold-perk tracking (parking, guest tickets)
  • Instant revoke & reissue from admin
  • Ready for gate scanners & door POS (phase 3)

Park Manager admin

  • Morning dashboard with sales & attendance
  • Orders with refunds & full payment trail
  • Customer profiles with notes & history
  • Live cabana map + locker counts
  • Ticket, pass & rental pricing controls
  • Promo code management
  • Party lead pipeline for the events team
  • Team roster, certs & weekly schedule

The wow factors

No per-ticket tax

SaaS ticketing platforms skim every sale — at thousands of tickets a summer, that's real money. Here the only per-transaction cost is Stripe's card fee. The platform itself doesn't take a cut.

Survives the Saturday rush

Serverless infrastructure (Cloudflare) scales instantly when the whole town buys tickets in a two-hour window before open — and costs almost nothing all winter while the park sleeps.

Checkout that never leaves your site

Payment is embedded right on the page — guests never bounce to a third-party checkout that looks like someone else's brand. Card data goes straight to Stripe, keeping you out of heavy PCI scope.

Every guest in one place

One click from an order to the customer to their passes to their party booking. Staff notes travel with the guest ("gluten-free cake on file"). That's the stuff big-park software charges enterprise money for.

QR gates, ready when you are

Every ticket and pass already carries a scan token with a full scan history — duplicate scans blocked automatically. When you're ready for gate scanners and door POS, the plumbing is already there.

Your data, forever

Customers, orders, and season-pass history live in your database, not a vendor's. Switch tools, run promotions, email your passholders — nobody can hold your guest list hostage.

Want the receipts? The Breakdown puts the park's old ticketing setup next to this platform — pricing, fees, and hardware, side by side.

The "what happens if Donald gets hit by a bus?" clause

Morbid? A little. But it's the question every business should ask their web developer — and here the answer is: nothing bad happens.

Everything is registered to the parkThe domain, the Cloudflare account, the Stripe account, and the code — owned by Chesapeake Beach Water Park, not by the developer. Nobody has to pry anything out of an estate.
The site doesn't need a babysitterServerless hosting means there's no server to reboot at 2 AM. The storefront keeps selling tickets whether or not anyone touches it.
Boring, mainstream technologyReact, Stripe, Cloudflare — the most widely-known tools in the industry. Any competent web developer can pick this up cold. No proprietary anything.
Documented and handed overFull source code, written documentation, and admin credentials are delivered to park leadership at the end of every phase — not held as leverage.
Your data walks out the door with youCustomers, orders, and pass history export at any time. No vendor — including us — can hold your guest list hostage.
A named backup planThe handoff package includes a "break glass" doc: where everything lives, what it costs, and who to call — so a successor developer is productive in a day, not a month.

Roadmap

Mockups✓ Done — you're looking at it

Design & clickable mockups

Two storefront directions with real park photography, plus the full Park Manager admin and staff devices — all interactive, all live for you to test today.

Phase 1Next

The website & online sales

Build the chosen design into the production site: live ticket & season-pass sales with embedded Stripe checkout, guest accounts and wallets, party inquiries flowing into the admin. This is when the park starts selling online.

Phase 2

The back office & training

Park Manager for the front desk, events team, and leadership — plus the staff learning system, so training and certifications are ready before seasonal hiring ramps up.

Phase 3

Staff devices at the gate

QR scanning at the gates, walk-up sales at the window on iPads with Stripe Reader S710 terminals, the kitchen display, and real-time in-park counts — timed to the reopening.

Beyond

Grow-with-you extras

Passholder email campaigns, dynamic date-based pricing, deeper reporting, and team scheduling — either built in or integrated with a tool like When I Work.

Pick a direction, and we build it.

Everything in this proposal is live right now — click around, try it on your phone, and tell us which storefront feels like the park.

Open the mockups