Creating time scheduled products - bus tickets

[bate_g]

Hi,

I'm pretty new in the Apache OfBiz and I'm looking for a solution to build a online portal for selling bus tickets. So far as I saw the Apache OfBiz offers almost everything to create such a solution. The only thing, I'm not sure if it's possible, is how to create a product representing a place in a bus at some time point from "A" to "B". Its the standard use case for this scenario: I have some providers, offering a journey from A to B: each monday at 12:15 a bus with 40 places is traveling from A to B via C and D. I'll offer my customers to by tickets for the trip from A to B, but may be also from C to B  etc. Is a use case like this full ore partially covered by the Apache OfBiz or I have to implement everything from scratch. I'll be very happy if someone has an advice how to solve my problem 

Thanks a lot and kind regards,

Angel

[Atul Vani]

Hi Angel,

Here is what I could quickly think:
* Create the trip between origin to destination as a virtual product.
* Create seats in the bus as variant products. You will be selling these.
* Create all the stations as product features. This will allow to sell a  
seat for a particular set of stations.
* Extend the product feature entity to include from and to timing.
* Associate from and to geo with the product feature.

You will need to code some business logic yourself.

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On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:38:16 +0530, Angel Gerdzhikov  
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm pretty new in the Apache OfBiz and I'm looking for a solution to  
> build a online portal for selling bus tickets. So far as I saw the  
> Apache OfBiz offers almost everything to create such a solution. The  
> only thing, I'm not sure if it's possible, is how to create a product  
> representing a place in a bus at some time point from "A" to "B". Its  
> the standard use case for this scenario: I have some providers, offering  
> a journey from A to B: each monday at 12:15 a bus with 40 places is  
> traveling from A to B via C and D. I'll offer my customers to by tickets  
> for the trip from A to B, but may be also from C to B  etc. Is a use  
> case like this full ore partially covered by the Apache OfBiz or I have  
> to implement everything from scratch. I'll be very happy if someone has  
> an advice how to solve my problem
>
> Thanks a lot and kind regards,
> Angel
>

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[eejaz.ahmed]

Hi Angel,
Ofbiz has an open travel system demo store as well (Catalog -> Stores ->Open Travel Store). You can explore that too.

Regards:

Ejaz Ahmed

> To: [hidden email]; [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: Creating time scheduled products - bus tickets
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:16:44 +0530
> From: [hidden email]
>
> Hi Angel,
>
> Here is what I could quickly think:
> * Create the trip between origin to destination as a virtual product.
> * Create seats in the bus as variant products. You will be selling these.
> * Create all the stations as product features. This will allow to sell a  
> seat for a particular set of stations.
> * Extend the product feature entity to include from and to timing.
> * Associate from and to geo with the product feature.
>
> You will need to code some business logic yourself.
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards
> Atul Vani
>
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:38:16 +0530, Angel Gerdzhikov  
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm pretty new in the Apache OfBiz and I'm looking for a solution to  
> > build a online portal for selling bus tickets. So far as I saw the  
> > Apache OfBiz offers almost everything to create such a solution. The  
> > only thing, I'm not sure if it's possible, is how to create a product  
> > representing a place in a bus at some time point from "A" to "B". Its  
> > the standard use case for this scenario: I have some providers, offering  
> > a journey from A to B: each monday at 12:15 a bus with 40 places is  
> > traveling from A to B via C and D. I'll offer my customers to by tickets  
> > for the trip from A to B, but may be also from C to B  etc. Is a use  
> > case like this full ore partially covered by the Apache OfBiz or I have  
> > to implement everything from scratch. I'll be very happy if someone has  
> > an advice how to solve my problem
> >
> > Thanks a lot and kind regards,
> > Angel
> >
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