By AFD on

I'm new (just today) to Drupal and so far am very impressed. I've used Wordpress before and am a so-so sys admin with a little web dev experience.

I've recently acquired a dogwalking client to setup a website for and after struggling to find a solution using Wordpress I came to Drupal hoping for a lucky break.

The dogwalker requires;

  1. Reservation of 1hr time slots for multiple staff members within staff working periods (ie. 9-5 for Geoff and 12-9 for Mark).
  2. Reservation of whole day slots for pet sitting.
  3. User handling to the point that the public can see a general calendar but registered users can book slots after
  4. ... going through a payment gateway for a desired service (one-off walk, repeat walks or pet sitting).

So far I've found a few modules that will no doubt be useful, but not a reservation system with payment gateway that covers my needs. My list of modules installed so far is;

  • Content
  • Calendar
  • Calendar iCal
  • Date
  • Date API
  • Date Locale
  • Date Pop-up
  • Date Timezone
  • Date Tools
  • Featured Content Slider Block
  • Views
  • Views Exporter
  • Views UI

And a bunch of Core-optional modules as well.

Could anyone advise of current reservation modules that fulfil my criteria? (reserve+take payment) Alternatively would anyone introduce me to how/where to start playing with the modules / make a bid of how much they would expect development of such a module to cost.

Thanks in advance.

Feel free to contact me by email if preferred : afd@afdit.co.uk

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

There's some booking modules (ie http://drupal.org/project/booking_timeslots and http://drupal.org/project/publicbookings), but I'm not sure how they would integrate with payments. Another option might be the http://drupal.org/project/signup series of modules.

AFD’s picture

AFD commented

Thanks for your reply.

I've installed the modules you recommend plus their dependants and a couple of variations to enable in case the first-choice modules don't work out too well.

I can see the benefit of a set package of Drupal modules made to cover the booking+payment combo being applicable to so many scenarios... fingers crossed I can make it happen.

parrottvision’s picture

parrottvision commented

Hi afd - similar situation here - how did you go with the payment module side of things?