how to build services booking app with cobalt?

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Guest
08 Dec 2013 10:41

I am not sure if this can be done using cobalt (I suspect not)

but maybe you guys can prove me wrong:

I need to build a platform where users should be able to sell their services (eg lessons)

each merchant user should create his record (eg math lessons), then the user who wants to purchase should choose date/time from a calendar and purchase

**the calendar should display only dates/times that have not yet been purchased, **and after purchasing the user should be able to see/access record's fields that previoulsy were hidden (like eg. merchant phone number)

I understand that the behaviour of the calendar in this case is not probably possible using cobalt, unless the user creates a different record for each date/time (which would not be usable at all)

but as I said maybe you can prove me wrong!

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Sergey

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10 Dec 2013 09:41

I see what you want. That would be possible only with dedicated booking field. Your task require new field.

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pepperstreet VIP

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10 Dec 2013 16:27

FYI - C7 booking and reservation topic

Thanks for reminding me on a re-creation in C8 section ;-)

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Guest
15 Dec 2013 08:35

Sergey, do you provide custom field development for a case like this?

and in this case, what would be the cost? (I need to do a quote for the client)

the main requested features would be:

booking field with calendar

users can purchase a service choosing a date/hour from the calendar:

when creating record user can set dates and hour ranges for the provided services

the calendar must be very flexible, with possibility to just set some dates/hours, or recurring dates, or both

user can set number of available seats for each date/hour

user can set custom prices for each date/hour if he wants to, or same price for everything

if number of seats for a certain date/hour is filled, that date/hour cannot be chosen by others

payment with paypal with option for automatic payment split between site admin ad record's user

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Guest
15 Dec 2013 08:46

sent request to custom # mintjoomla.com

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Sergey

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16 Dec 2013 04:52

Usually we develop some custom fields. But this booking one is complicated and yet was planned. It may be not difficult to create booking field for one particular case, but create field that fits alll scenarios is serious work.

Unfortunately right now we do not accept custom development like that.

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pepperstreet VIP

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16 Dec 2013 05:53

@nican

Do you know OS SOLUTIONS products? e.g.: Service Booking

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Guest
16 Dec 2013 07:11

yes but there is not the possibility for users to create booking services form frontend

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