osCommerce for tours

[annedonnelly]

Hello there,

 

I'm looking at using osCommerce for a website offering small group tours. There would be two or three identical tours per day. We'd like to offer online booking (and possibly payment). Passengers will be in different categories - adult, child, student, etc - with different prices for each. We'd like to display only tours which still have spaces available.

 

We'd also like to offer a facility for agents (with commission arrangements) to make bookings on behalf of customers. Agents would like to see all of their bookings and the number of spaces available on future trips. General users would only see that there was space or not.

 

I looked at the Travel Toes site listed in the showcases and they seem to be doing some of the things we want at http://www.traveltoe.com/product_info.php/...roducts_id/2374

 

I've installed a local version of osCommerce but I can't figure out how to do what I want.

 

I'm happy to read documentation and to search the forum but I'm not sure what to search for.

 

Any clues or suggestions about the features I should be looking at would be very welcome.

 

Many thanks

 

Anne

[sunny123]

Hi,

 

Don't see why not.

 

You would need to create a product for each tour date and time/number with a stock value of the number of seats available.

 

You would also have to do for every tour for a period of time. I suggest your product categories be for periods of time Eg Next Week 2 Weeks 3 weeks in the future as each tour is completed you would then update the dates of the product so the product could be reused and obviously update seats each time as well.

 

Also your options for each tour being student, concession adult etc. Your standard price would be the cheapest and in attributes you add price dependent upon fare type (eg Student, Adult etc)

 

Don't think OSCommerce would be as easy as a purpose built tours application but think my suggestion would work

 

Good Luck

 

sunny123