Babysitting Site? - I need help :0)

[hayley]

Hey everyone,

 

I need to make website for a client who wants start a babysitting company.

 

The user (who needs a baby sitter) would go on to the website and click the sitter they require, they will then be presented with a calendar of dates and times the sitter is free and then be able to pay for the sitter on that particular date and time on line.

 

Also when a particular baby sitter is fully booked I want the calendar to update and not allow any double bookings.

 

Does any body know how Id use oscommerce to do this? I have look at the contributions list but cant seem to see anything that would help me. Is this possible using Oscommerce?

 

I have never used oscommerce before (usually use Cubecart) but I know that oscommerce is more advanced?

 

 

Thanks H x

[zhexiang]

What I know is that osCommerce is for selling products, not sure it's right for selling services, especially like yours that may require constant update everytime whether the sitter is free or not on any particular day.

[Guest]

What I know is that osCommerce is for selling products, not sure it's right for selling services, especially like yours that may require constant update everytime whether the sitter is free or not on any particular day.

osC is good about many things not just selling. I use it for renting, data analysis, in general with an endless number of things.

 

The sitter definetely has a schedule here like eg: Mon-Fri 9-6pm so an event calendar like this one:

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1061

could be used as the front end with some pre-sets for the days of the week. Basically once the customer selects a day/date they system can populate a "single product" into the cart. So the entire store can operate with a single product for this purpose. The different dates can be handled as attributes.

 

The "stock" is perhaps the challenging part for this as the system has to update the calendar from the orders related tables. So the product info page and cart class have to be modified to check the orders tables (or a separate table that includes dates current allocation) before allowing checkout.

[hayley]

Oh ok, so it is possible then :blink:

 

Thank you, Ill have a go at it. Dont suppose you've done anything like this have you, that I can see online, just to get an idea of how it would work?

 

Thanks