Yes I did. I downloaded the sharedofbiz from the site and gave it a try. But
I did not find any inventories assigned for the sample hotel rooms. But,
since you mentioned it, I took another look and now I began to see the use
of "Fixed Asset Usage" as the product type. It could be used to check the
availabilities of a room. However, when I tried to assign multple prices
based on dates, the provided front-end did not calculate the total pricing
correctly. It always use the pricing of the current date multiplied with the
number of days.

Example:

Let's say a hotel room is priced as below,

Jan 1 - Jan 10 => USD 30
Jan 11 - Jan 20 => USD 40

If a customer books the room from Jan 10 - Jan 11, the total price should be
30 + 40 = 70. However, the opentravelsystem would give 30 * 2 = 60, which is
not correct.

Nonetheless, I think I would try to learn more about the Fixed Asset Usage
and how to assign pricings and promos to it.

I also see the availability of "Rental" menu. What does this menu do? Can I
use this menu to book a "Fixed Asset Usage" product?




On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:26 PM, X Gylee <[email protected]> wrote:

> did you look into http://opentravelsystem.org ?
>
> Regards
> Amine.
>
> 2009/1/9 X Gylee <[email protected]>
>
> > I'm currently exploring the possibility of using OFBiz for a hotel room
>
> > reservation system. The system will have several types of rooms, each with
> > its own number of available rooms for a date period.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > Room 1 => Jan 1 - Jan 10 => 3 rooms.
>
> > Room 1 => Jan 11 - Jan 17 => 2 rooms.
> > Room 1 => Jan 18- Jan 31 => 3 rooms.
> >
> > Room 2 => Jan 1 - Jan 20 => 1 room.
> > Room 2 => Jan 21 - Jan 31 => 2 rooms.
> >
>
> > If a customer books a room in a certain date range the available quantities
> > in the corresponding periods will be subtracted.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > A customer books one "Room 1" from Jan 10 to Jan 12. Then the
>
> > availabilities
> > of Room 1 would be updated to:
> >
> > Room 1 => Jan 1 - Jan 9 => 3 rooms.
> > Room 1 => Jan 10 - Jan 10 => 2 rooms.
> > Room 1 => Jan 11- Jan 12 => 1 room.
>
> > Room 1 => Jan 12 - Jan 17 => 2 rooms.
> > Room 1 => Jan 18- Jan 31 => 3 rooms.
> >
> > I try to use OFBiz for such scenarios, but I do not know how to define the
> > products, pricings, and inventories for it. The provided OFBiz sample data
>
> > does not seem to be tailored for a purchase that spans accross a date
> > range.
> >
> > I could manipulate OFBiz by creating a single product for each date, such
> > as
> > "Room 1 Jan 1", "Room 1 Jan 2", "Room 1 Jan 3", etc., and allocate pricings
>
> > and an inventory for each. But, this would be a very tedious process.
> >
> > I see the existence a product type "Fixed Asset Usage", but I do not know
> > how to take advantage of it to fit the scenarios above.
>
> >
> > Could anybody provide a suggestion on how one could best use OFBiz to
> > handle
> > such scenario?
> >
>
>

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