Oscommerce for personal service site?

[emaster]

This may sound weird, but I was wondering if I could use oscommerce for a personal service site,

ie. modeling in this case. When the customer enters date, location, and/or model name, it would

return the available models. Say if the customer enters date and location, it would return models

in that location who are available on that date. If the customer enters the model name (from dropdown)

it would return the available hours of that model. Do you know if it's possible? Thanks.

[nealc]

I guess it's possible, you would just set the models as products in your store.

[♥ecartz]

Say if the customer enters date and location, it would return models in that location who are available on that date. If the customer enters the model name (from dropdown) it would return the available hours of that model.

While it's certainly possible, there is no functionality currently implemented to handle scheduling. You'd have to implement something to handle the availability question. In particular, something that could say that a given model was not available on a given date because the model was already booked or had the day off.

 

You might be able to do it by setting location as category, date as a product, and the models as attributes of that product. However, attribute stock keeping is not part of the core (there are contributions for it). Further, you'd have to manually track schedules outside osCommerce.