By jdeg on

I have a website and I want to sell banners in the same website. There will be several type of banners with different prices. When the user buys the banner, that banner will be available in the website for 1 month, then it expires.

What is the best approach to do this? Use Ubercart or Commerce module? If I chose one of those how do I do the expiration feature?

Thanks!

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end user commented

Are you going to use views to display the banners or just manually insert them into a block or something. Easiest I guess would be Ubercart and selling a role which when the customer pays for is allowed to create a node and attach an image to it. You can then uses views (block) to show/rotate the images that are attached to the add node. There are modules that can restrict the user to only create on node and then maybe use scheduler to expire the node after a certain amount of time. Actually Auto Expire is probably what you need as it'll expire the node after a certain time set by the admin. http://drupal.org/project/auto_expire

As for Ubercart vs Commerce your main problem is not going to be which module is the most popular as Ubercart works just fine and is mature, your bigger problem will be the modules that expire the node/content that you are selling. If you search around to node expire in Drupal there hasn't been much development in the Node Expire and Auto Expire modules for Drupal 7.

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WorldFallz commented

imo for any new commerce functionality, commerce and/or commerce_kickstart is the way to go-- d7 usage has already eclipsed ubercart and will only continue to grow. See http://www.drupalcommerce.org/blog/8097/showcasing-latest-drupal-commerc... for some good examples.

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jdeg commented

Thanks guys,

What I need I think is pretty simple.

For example, I have 3 types of packages (free, premium, business). Once I choose one package I algo have the chance to add features to that package. So at the end an user can choose premium (+$10), feature #1 (+$2), feature #4 (+$5). In one page I choose the package and in another page I choose which extra features I want to add.

I was reading about both solutions, Ubercart seems easier to use which is good because the website is not a full shopping cart. In the other hand, Commerce seems more flexible and easier to add functionality with a custom module.