Rentals / Booking Engine

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greg@beargroup.com's picture

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

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I've just started a RV

tres's picture

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

dzazi's picture

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

marcingy's picture

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

drewish's picture

looks really good. is that something you're willing to open up to the community?

Sorry for the delay in

marcingy's picture

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

elio's picture

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

drewish's picture

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

bpocanada's picture

Feel free to reach me and I can help in development.

Roshan Shah
BPO Canada - http://www.bpocanada.com

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i'm specing out this functionality

drewish's picture

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

fronbow's picture

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!

thePanz's picture

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-

-thePanz-

Modules are available

marcingy's picture

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

christefano's picture

Thanks!

Module

Z2222's picture

Thanks for making this available...

OpenResort Released

Snow Valley Consulting's picture

Drupal's first booking engine released - http://drupal.org/project/openresort

Openresort Community Edition

coupet's picture

Excellent work!

Looking forward to contribute & test.

Thanks, Darly

Booking Module

dhinesh132's picture

Hi friends,

       I need to integrate booking option for user. I am using drupal 6.x 

if anybody know the procedure to add this module please help me.

that module should be the following functionality

1) booking by date & time
2) view the booking schedule
3) approve and reject the booking by admin.
4) user can only view.

regards
Dhinesh.M

You should look at MERCI.

kreynen's picture

You should look at MERCI.

Openresort D6 trying

Summit's picture

Hi,

Please help to get Openresort on Drupal 6! See some thingies I am struggling with: see: http://drupal.org/node/290622#comment-2430096 and http://drupal.org/node/290622#comment-2430344.

Greetings, Martijn

Has anyone ever put together

nimzie's picture

Has anyone ever put together something like this in to a parking lot / space rental application? In your opinions which project would work best with this? I'll need to use nodes / location module with the spots as well, cause we're going to show things on google maps...

thoughts?

cheers,
adam