Posted by vlyons55 on January 25, 2010 at 7:15pm
Has anyone setup Ubercart to use rental products? I have set up attributes for number of months and number of machines. The calculation for total price is total price = (price * months * machines). Is it possible to do this using out-of-the box Ubercart?
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UberCart Rental
I am asking the same question. I have not found an easy way to set up a rental product class. I would like to control rental periods (one month etc.), rental terms (daily rate, weekly rate etc.), and deposits (refund to buyer on return). I'd like to have support for UberCart Marketplace, where the sellers themselves can set their own rental terms.
While I haven't done rental
While I haven't done rental products exactly, I suspect you'd be able to hack together most of the functionality you'd need using Ubercart with CIM. If you enable CIM it will allow you to modify charges later on (ie. charge late fees), which I'd imagine would be a requirement for a rental system. You can then use the 'Product Kit' module to group rentals together, for example, you can have a group of 4 items, or a group of 10 items. The 'quantity' field could then be used for rental duration.
Admittedly this will lead to a fairly messy implementation, but it would not require and development. You can also try the uc_hotel module, which may have some similarities to what you're looking for:
http://drupal.org/project/uc_hotel