Well, whichever way you implement it, inventory is linked to a Product, therefore your Rental model will no doubt be linked as well. Not sure there's a very logical reason for not relating your Rental info to the Product that is being rented. Then you access any other data via the relationship.
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Alex Hayes <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
