Rental Addon

Hi

i would like to see a rental addon for opencart that allows dvd rentals, would be a good feature to have, Not many opensource shopping carts have this feature, so might make yours better in other carts eyes

even if its a simple wish list changed to dvd rental script would do

but what is required for rental in opencart? the only thing i can think of, is keeping track of items being rented, when they are not available and how long to rent them for.

Well. to be honest, most of that can be done easily with a small spreedsheet, if all rental items are set to a qty of 1, and are out of stock when they are purchased, then you only need change the wording "Out of stock" to currently unavailable.

most dvd rental's these days, like iLoveFilm etc, allow you to rent a dvd for an unlimited amount of time, so long as you only have a max of x number of dvd's per month, and there is a fixed charge per month.

If you wanted to keep track that way, you only need a subscription payment that re charges every month, the actual inventry is tracked by how many are in stock total, how many are currently out on rental, whos renting it etc.

All of this is prob done in a much easier manor, than any of the benifits you would see if it was in some way added to opencart.

@SXGuy
Rentals go beyond just the items available date, up to the client's desired date, or to be precise,the client wants to be able to go ahead of time and book the rented item in advance. In that case, the client needs to be able to query the rental items against his/her desired date of rental: which means two parameters have to be compared before a decision can be made; that is Clients Desired Date of Rental and the Items Available Date of Rental.

Currently open cart does not seem to support that kind of set up; unless u can be of great assistance and show us how to go around that.