By andriesdevos on

Hello,

We are building a premium website that will sell exclusive urban activities, starting in Singapore. We are currently researching Drupal's modules to deliver the features. This is our first Drupal ecommerce site and we could use Drupal advise to get us going!

On-Request Booking:

  • Requirements: our inventory of activities will depend on the availability of the external hosts. Sometimes calendars may not be updated (think: airbnb) or sometimes hosts would like to approve who books them. In either case, we need a functionality where customers can request a date/booking and hosts approve it. Payment authorization happens after authorization.
  • Modules: there are so many booking modules, I'm not too clear on all the pros/cons. I am currently guided by this post: http://groups.drupal.org/node/137544, which leads me to Bookings API, Event Booking and Rooms. Any advise?

SMS Notifications:

  • Requirement: we would like the option to deliver sms notifications for messages and bookings (including on-request ones).
  • Any advise on what SMS gateway to use for Singapore, with SMS Framework?

JQuery
Can we use jquery plugins with Drupal without 'breaking' it?

Thank you!
Andries

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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frazras commented

You could try SMS Framework and/or Twilio
http://drupal.org/project/smsframework
http://drupal.org/project/sms_twilio

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mcpuddin commented

I am not familiar with Booking unfortunately, so I can't give advice there.

In terms of SMS framework, the D7 version is still in development and we are working through the last issues, and it should be in production in the next couple of weeks. Check some of the gateways here: http://drupal.org/project/smsframework and see if any of the gateways currently support singapore. If not, you'll have to develop one and I'd be happy to work directly with you to making sure smsframework meets your needs. To send notifications, you'd probably take advantage of the RULES or ACTIONS integration that SMS Framework has. ACTIONS is currently in dev and I will be committing the updated code by the end of this week.

As for Jquery, Drupal uses an older jquery and jquery-ui version. So you could use jquery_upgrade to upgrade a bit but do check the module to see if its compatible with Drupal's version before deciding to use it. There are ways as well to have 2 versions of jquery running on Drupal at the same time.

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