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purchase a spot in a class/seminar

Submitted by jimijamesi on Fri, 01/11/2008 - 11:39
jimijamesi
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 Joined: 08/19/2007

Here is a scenario for a different kind of soft product. A class or seminar held at a physical location. Client wants to allow users to purchase a spot in a class/seminar. So a few questions:

how to avoid "shipping" costs

how to integrate with calander mod (in order to display on a calander including thumbnail of class project in the actual calendar)

Calendar mod allows a registration widget so it knows when a class is "full" or sold out

how to link calender item directly to product page OR include add to cart button on calendar event page

Is this something that would require its own new module or perhaps a combo of existing functionality with current modules??? Has anyone done anything similar?

Thoughts... suggestions.... uberThanks in advance
permalink #1 Wed, 01/23/2008 - 14:54
thefourthdoctor
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 Joined: 01/22/2008

I'm working on something similar. My current approach is to create a separate product for each seminar and use simple stock levels (is that the proper name?) to limit attendance to each. for example, I have a product called "xyz seminar - 1 Jan 2008 through 1 Feb 2008". This works for me as I don't have a large number of seminars to handle. Your situation may be different.

I'm still researching other aspects of this, such as disabling shipping costs (but retaining a billing address), changing the language on the check-out screens to reflect that it's a seminar and not a physical thing, etc. I'm keen to hear how others have done it and whether there are any best practices to follow or gotchas to watch out for.

permalink #2 Wed, 01/23/2008 - 15:16
Ryan

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One thing you can do to disable the shipping stuff is make sure the checkbox is unchecked that states a product is shippable. If it's not considered shippable then the shipping information and shipping quotes panes should be hidden on the checkout screen.