osCommerce the right choice for me?

[bhaaland]

I am just at the stage of deciding if I should use osCommerce or not as a base for my webshop. The reason why I wonder is that it looks like what I need is not a

part of the solution, so any advice is appreciated :rolleyes:

 

Part of what I am selling is sports packages, including sports event, hotel and plane-tickets all in one package. So if I have 500-1000 events during one year it get a bit complicated. My main concern is this:

 

Suppose a family of 5 wants to book plane, event and hotel in one 'package'. They want one double room and one triple room, and one of the kids are below 15, thereby giving them a reduced price for the plane ticked, and reduced room rate for the triplet.

 

Based on this I need my order page to be something as follows:

 

Product: 21st of August, Golf Trip to the Bahamas,

Checkbox: Including plane tickets? (it should also be possible to book without plane tickets)

Dropdown box: Number of persons travelling together

Dropdown: Number of persons below 15 years

Dropdown: Number of persons staying in single room

Dropdown: Number of persons staying in twin/double room

Dropdown: Number of persons staying in triple room

 

And then based on the selections of the dropdowns, calculate the final price. There also needs to be a check for if the selected number of persons travelling together fits the selected room configuration.

 

If anyone could answear me if this is possible to do in osCommerce then I could go for this solution, if not then I need to custom make something and the price of that might be killing my business...

 

Any help at all would be grately appreciated since my initial developers have left me standing alone. :(

[bhaaland]

Not so easy I assume since nobody comments on my problem?

[Guest]

I believe you could accomplish this using the product attributes within osC but the attributes is one area in which osC is poorly designed. Attributes are a huge pain the a-- to use actually. There may be a contribution or two that make it easier to use attributes though. For instance, there is a contribution to allow the entry of attributes during the Add New Product rather than having to edit the product to add attributes.

 

With some work osC can certainly accomplish what you need but if you're looking for an 'out-of-the-box' solution for your particular situation, osC isn't it.

[Rwfresh]

I am just at the stage of deciding if I should use osCommerce or not as a base for my webshop. The reason why I wonder is that it looks like what I need is not a

part of the solution, so any advice is appreciated :rolleyes:

 

Part of what I am selling is sports packages, including sports event, hotel and plane-tickets all in one package. So if I have 500-1000 events during one year it get a bit complicated. My main concern is this:

 

Suppose a family of 5 wants to book plane, event and hotel in one 'package'. They want one double room and one triple room, and one of the kids are below 15, thereby giving them a reduced price for the plane ticked, and reduced room rate for the triplet.

 

Based on this I need my order page to be something as follows:

 

Product: 21st of August, Golf Trip to the Bahamas,

Checkbox: Including plane tickets? (it should also be possible to book without plane tickets)

Dropdown box: Number of persons travelling together

Dropdown: Number of persons below 15 years

Dropdown: Number of persons staying in single room

Dropdown: Number of persons staying in twin/double room

Dropdown: Number of persons staying in triple room

 

And then based on the selections of the dropdowns, calculate the final price. There also needs to be a check for if the selected number of persons travelling together fits the selected room configuration.

 

If anyone could answear me if this is possible to do in osCommerce then I could go for this solution, if not then I need to custom make something and the price of that might be killing my business...

 

Any help at all would be grately appreciated since my initial developers have left me standing alone. :(

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www.teetimeshawaii.com

 

 

It can be done... Anything can be done really. As far as using php and mysql as a base i'd say OSC is a good start.

 

rw