Posted by jessSchn on March 25, 2011 at 10:45pm
Hello,
I'm recently a new user to Drupal 7. I'm working on setting up an E-Commerce (Ubercart 2.0) section for this site and I need this module to let me enter events into the catalog instead of Products.
Where I'm running into problems is an event can last 5 days, but people have to option to go 1day, 3days, all days, etc.; plus they can have multiple combinations of Junior Tickets, Adult Gen. Admission Tickets, Reserved Tickets, Pit Passes, etc. I'm finding out that Ubercart's Products feature really isn't handling all the different combinations.
Is there an add on for Ubercart to handle Event Sales vs Product Sales? Is there a better module to use for event sales?
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There's not really a good
There's not really a good method available for this with ubercart that I'm aware of..
I wrote a custom module that allowed me to do something kind of similar a couple years ago when I was working for the Water Park of America.. It basically just had a collection of ticket types, each with a date field, which would then be aggregated onto a calendar, and a custom multi-buy form for each date that would allow you to select how many of each ticket type you wanted for the given date.
It was kind of a clumsy solution, but mostly worked.
If you're using drupal 7, I'd suggest you'd be better off using drupal commerce than ubercart, as it was written from the ground up to be a very flexible ecommerce framework. There, again, won't be an out of the box solution for this problem, but building one SHOULD be a bit easier as drupal commerce just kind of gets out of your way and lets you build and do what you need to. Since you're almost certainly going to have to write something custom (or hire someone to write something custom) you (or they) will find that task less frustrating with the drupal commerce framework.
Custom coding for ubercart is .. kind of frustrating.
Drupal 7 Commerce
Thanks for the advice. I know when I was looking for an E-Commerce Solution I debated between Ubercart and Drupal Commerce.
I'm working on un-installing Ubercart and Installing Commerce. I let anyone else looking for an Event Registration feature know how it works out.
Ticket Solution
I am also looking for ticketing solution with minimal coding. Sort of leaning toward the Eventbrite module since they seem to have good hooks for their API. We are still using D6 but D7 seems to be pretty solid now for most of our modules. Thanks for the comments here.