Does anyone know of a good package or a third party system that can handle booking of rental products?
A customer of mine that provides a rental service to his customers wants a web-based workflow for this
Customer selects an item, a time frame for rental and the system should manage booking it and making sure noone else can book that item in that time frame.
Worst case scenario I'll build it myself, maybe you have some insights on how to make that process as easy as possible.
I don't know of any fully integrated e-commerce/calendar booking systems built on Umbraco but I do know that the common e-commerce packages (uCommerce, TeaCommerce and uWebshop) handle post-transaction callbacks, so in theory it should be possible to extend one of those systems to handle your transactions but build the availability functionality yourself. I'd imagine it could be a fairly complex thing to develop though, so may be worth looking around for entirely non-umbraco solutions or third-party systems in case there are any 'quick wins' out there; the native Umbraco packages probably won't do this for you out of the box.
Last time I looked (which was a good few years ago, admittedly) calendar-based booking systems were thin on the ground on the .NET platform anyway (plenty of PHP ones typically!). A quick search now yeilds few results stilll. I know it's a commercial package but perhaps uCalendar might help - maybe Daniel would be able open to extending it for e-commerce integration? Just an idea, but it might be worth contacting the package authors to see if they're interested in sponsored extension of their products? I notice dotnetnuke has modules for this and kentico has something similar, so there's clearly some kind of market for it.
However, their site, ucalendar.net, is not reachable and latest version says beta.
Not sure how much I want to invest in building on that.
If there are no good umbraco packages maybe this is an untapped market and maybe I should make it and sell it... If so, building on uCalendar might not be the best idea.
Booking system for rental products
Hello!
Does anyone know of a good package or a third party system that can handle booking of rental products?
A customer of mine that provides a rental service to his customers wants a web-based workflow for this
Customer selects an item, a time frame for rental and the system should manage booking it and making sure noone else can book that item in that time frame.
Worst case scenario I'll build it myself, maybe you have some insights on how to make that process as easy as possible.
Thanks!
/Hannes
Hi Hannes,
I don't know of any fully integrated e-commerce/calendar booking systems built on Umbraco but I do know that the common e-commerce packages (uCommerce, TeaCommerce and uWebshop) handle post-transaction callbacks, so in theory it should be possible to extend one of those systems to handle your transactions but build the availability functionality yourself. I'd imagine it could be a fairly complex thing to develop though, so may be worth looking around for entirely non-umbraco solutions or third-party systems in case there are any 'quick wins' out there; the native Umbraco packages probably won't do this for you out of the box.
Thanks for your input!
The site is built on teacommerce so that part is no problem.
My own search for third party services has come up quite empty. There are a few, but none of them fit.
Maybe I've missed something...
One thing is that it has to be in swedish.
/Hannes
Hi Hannes,
Last time I looked (which was a good few years ago, admittedly) calendar-based booking systems were thin on the ground on the .NET platform anyway (plenty of PHP ones typically!). A quick search now yeilds few results stilll. I know it's a commercial package but perhaps uCalendar might help - maybe Daniel would be able open to extending it for e-commerce integration? Just an idea, but it might be worth contacting the package authors to see if they're interested in sponsored extension of their products? I notice dotnetnuke has modules for this and kentico has something similar, so there's clearly some kind of market for it.
uCalendar might give me some kind of head start.
However, their site, ucalendar.net, is not reachable and latest version says beta.
Not sure how much I want to invest in building on that.
If there are no good umbraco packages maybe this is an untapped market and maybe I should make it and sell it... If so, building on uCalendar might not be the best idea.
I'll give it a "think" :)
/Hannes
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