To me this sounds like a standard product with a price, which Satchmo has. What you would want to do on top of that is layer your scheduling functionality. Each "rental" is a product purchase. Your Rental model could perhaps have a ForeignKey back to the Product that was purchased, and would contain additional fields for scheduling from_date & to_date.
Inventory doesn't really matter here, so you'd want to enable the 'Allow checkout with 0 inventory' option at /settings/. Furthermore, you're likely going to want a method that checks a user's given from_date & to_date against your Rental model to ensure no Rental model exists whose from_date & to_date fall within the range of a customer's requested from_date & to_date. This is probably best handled via an Ajax lookup that immediately provides a True/False value back to the user trying to schedule. If you want to get really fancy with it, you'd define a custom view that would return all from_date & to_date values to your product template & prevent those from being chosen by a customer trying to make a reservation. Hope that helps. On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Deifante Jay Walters <[email protected]>wrote: > > Right now the desire is to have something that does rentals/ > reservations. The idea is that someone would come on to the store and > reserve and item for a certain amount of time. The desire is also to > allow the same item to be reserved more than once but for different > times. Like phone1 is rented from oct 1st till oct 12th and again from > oct 22nd to oct 25th. I would like to be able to charge different > amounts for different items. I would also like to charge different > amounts for different items. From the admin I would like to be able to > see what items are reserved at what times. > > I wouldn't mind implementing the functionality and giving it back to > the community if the code meets quality standards, so any help you can > give me in pointing me in the correct direction would be great. Thanks > again for the quick response. > > On Sep 22, 9:50 am, Chris Moffitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is no specific module for Satchmo that I'm aware of that does > rentals. > > > > We can help walk you through what it might take to do it if you could > > outline what you'd like your process to look like. > > > > -Chris > > > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Deifante Jay Walters > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, I'm looking to implement rental products on satchmo and > > > wondering if there wasn't already an existing app/plugin for that. > > > Thanks > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
