booking engines

Hi All

First of all, my apologies to anyone who wanted to attend my presentation in Barcelona. I'd had a migraine building up all week, and my head decided to explode on Friday! So I spent the day with the curtains shut in the hotel. I was hoping to get some of my thoughts into a more viewable form post-Barcelona but have had a few problems to deal with in Real Life(tm). So I thought I'd try and share some of my ideas here, whilst giving a bit of background of where I've been (in terms of booking systems).

Previously

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.