Rentals / Booking Engine
I have a client that manages their community and ecommerce functions through Drupal, and would like to extend to managing their equipment rentals business also. I would prefer to keep it as one system for all the obvious reasons, single user accounts, sitewide search, upgrade paths... etc.
To manage rentals, a booking engine (similar to airline sites) with a product/availability component and scheduler would be needed.
Ecommerce already tackles products, availability and the checkout pipeline.
Each product that is "rentable" would need to be able to be scheduled and then no longer available during that timeframe. Would be the inclusion of a calendaring/dates component as a first step that then filters availability of products. Most of the same checkout requirements, although sometimes they take deposits on more expensive items.
Seems like a common-enough scenario, wondering if anyone has worked on this already or some joint development might be possible.
Thanks
-Greg
I've just started a RV
I've just started a RV rental/booking website and would be happy to collaberate on a generic booking module.
I'm about to start on an RV site
And would be interested in collaborating, although I probably can't contribute much in the way of code. Could contribute some of the site's budget to help though...
Cheers,
Ben
hi check out
hi check out www.ourfernie.com - we an on line bookings system and have a customised version of the ecommerce model.
If you want more info you can contact me via marcingy@gmail.com
looks really good. is that
looks really good. is that something you're willing to open up to the community?
Sorry for the delay in
Sorry for the delay in replying. Yes we are hoping to have a version of our booking engine made available to the community in the next few weeks.
I am also interested in
I am also interested in developing a reservation system, I had a look on this.
What do you think about?
Greetings,
Elio
looks pretty wonky. the
looks pretty wonky. the whole strings and comments in german thing would be a burden. and it doesn't have hooks for ecommerce...
Can help in development
Feel free to reach me and I can help in development.
Roshan Shah
BPO Canada - http://www.bpocanada.com
i'm specing out this functionality
I'm looking at taking on a project that would need this type of functionality. I'd be interested in collaborating on such a project.
I would be interested in
I would be interested in collaborating with this. Although I'm not looking at an ecommerce -enabled facility.
I was thinking along the lines of an abstract booking system, that can then be extended to cater for rooms, tickets, media, etc.
This could then be extended to allow for ecommerce facilities if needed, rather than 'forcing' them to be used.
(I'm currently in need of a room booking system to replace an older system - and in the planning stages)
I'm really interested in it!
Hi, I'm really interested on that module!
I'll also have 3 free weeks when I can help in development of it!
Let me know!
-Panz-
Modules are available
The modules for online booking are now available in my sandbox
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/sandbox/marcingy/
The patch file held in the opensource folder need to be applied to the ecommerce directory. Please ensure that you use the current version of ecommerce (5.3.3).
I will be setting up a drupal project in the next week or so.
Checking it out
Thanks!
Module
Thanks for making this available...
OpenResort Released
Drupal's first booking engine released - http://drupal.org/project/openresort
Openresort Community Edition
Excellent work!
Looking forward to contribute & test.
Thanks, Darly