Event Based eCommerce Setup?

By sokrplare on 31 Aug 2007 at 02:53 UTC

I'm trying to create an event registration ecommerce setup for a chess website. There will be tournaments, classes, etc. that people can sign-up for and pay a registration fee. The ecommerce module seems to have most of the settings I need for this. Except, I also need to get info from everyone who registers that is specific to that registration (student grade, emergency contact information, chess rating, etc.).

I can't seem to figure out how to do this!? Any ideas on what combination of modules I can use and/or what I need to program myself?

Also, ideally I'd like to tie these events into a calendar. Anyone know of a way to do this?

Thanks so much for the help!

.:Joshua

Comments

Registration profiles

kulfi commented 31 August 2007 at 05:27

Depending on what information you need to collect at registration, you could either use Drupal's core Profile module (simple, quick implementation) or the contributed http://drupal.org/project/nodeprofile (more options, longer implementation, tutorial.

Interesting idea to use user

sokrplare commented 31 August 2007 at 16:01

Interesting idea to use user profiles for this...that is pretty clever. Only problem is that different information is needed depending on if it is a class or tournament etc. so people would end up with multiple user accounts and that could get messy. Also, sometimes people are registering two or more kids at the same time so they would need to enter the information twice.

Any ideas on how to get around that? I guess I'm somewhat flabbergasted that there isn't already a product type for this. I would think it would be pretty common even just for conferences etc. Wouldn't it make sense to have a product type that has a customizable number of fields for when people choose it and want to purchase it. Maybe this already exists or there is a reason it doesn't that I'm ignorant of?

.:Joshua

Sounds like

kulfi commented 2 September 2007 at 15:20

Sounds like http://drupal.org/project/og would be useful if they're registering for specific events/groups, as opposed to a site registration. Haven't played with organic groups enough to tell you how it would be tied in. Also see http://groups.drupal.org/conference-organizing-distribution for conference-specific information.

Signup module with eCommerce

sokrplare commented 10 September 2007 at 15:00

I came across the Signup module (http://drupal.org/project/signup) which appears to be pretty similar to what I'm looking for. Only trouble is it isn't tied into eCommerce as far as I know. There was one port thread about setting this support up in the 5.x version (http://drupal.org/node/159938), but it looks like it might have been kind of abandoned.

Anyone else use Signup and know about working eCommerce with it, or any other suggestions? Thanks!

.:Joshua