I to would be very interested in helping out on this (even sounds like
we are doing it for the same kind of products Jay).

>From my point I would need to have say a single product, with a
particular amount in the inventory (I'm assuming that Satchmo can do
this, I will find out today during my testing).

I will need to record things like serial no, imei and puk codes for
each physical item (again I'm assuming Satchmo can do this).

So, basically I think the Rental model needs to link to inventory as
opposed to a product.

Thanks
Alex

On Sep 24, 9:54 am, Bob Waycott <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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

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