smiddle Posted February 17, 2004 Posted February 17, 2004 My organization (a local class government) is looking to move our recreation registration online. Mainly, we offer services such as recreation center court rentals, classes and activities, and other services to our residents. I'm curious as to how well osCommerce works for sites that have no need of shipping goods. We don't worry about tax, shipping, multiple currencies (this is just for our local residents), etc. For things like court rentals, we don't have an inventory per se, but instead track whether the court is already rented or not for a specific date and time. It'll be a month (or more) before we can even start getting the system setup, but I'm trying to find a decent software package to start from (or at least figure out if I'll need to start from scratch). Any tips or pointers as to whether osCommerce can support this sort of setup would be greatly appreciated. I imagine even osCommerce will need some work on my part to get these features working for our specific needs (and we're willing to contribute the code back; everything we do is required to be public domain anyway), but it would be good to know just how well suited the foundation is for this. Or, alternatively, if anyone knows of any of other products/projects that could better meet our needs. So far, tho, everyone has pointed me to osCommerce. :) Thank you.
♥ecartz Posted February 18, 2004 Posted February 18, 2004 osCommerce should handle most of what you need. It currently classifies all non-shipped products as downloadable. If you are not actually going to have downloadable products, you can just disable/adapt the download part (or always use the same dummy file for downloads). The main problem is that currently you would have to set up each time period as a separate product. The main code modification that I would suggest would be to generate the time periods automatically. You may also want to use either the Categories Description or Master Products contribution to gather your time period groupings together. There were some people working on a hotel reservation system. Not sure how far they got. There might be some useful info in the thread where they were discussing it. Hth, Matt Always back up before making changes.
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