Hi,

Is it possible to use Artio Booking to allow merchants to register and offer their products for rental?
I guess that would also require frontend merchant functions to add new listing items for rent for registered merchants.

Does Artio Booking support multiple merchants (admins) where each can edit their own listings from the frontend?

Thanks,
Sebastian

Hello, currently no but it is todo for future versions.

Hi,

This topic is now 6 months old, and I would like to come back to it and kindly ask you wether you have made some progress with this the multi-merchant / multi-admin feature, or if it is still on your todo list (or maybe cancelled?).

My forthcoming project would need the ability to register frontend users as merchants, who submit items available for booking (also through the frontend). They would also need frontend editing and deleting of bookable items. Automatic calculation of a percentage of booking fees as a commission for the site owner (i.e. enter a percentage value for commisions) would be a plus.

If it helps to speed up the development, I'd be willing to fund it partially (project is paid well, I could possibly spend around 1000 € for custom development).

Looking forward to your reply,
Best regards! -- Sebastian

Hi Sebastian,

well, nice new feature but it is not so simple to do it. Here is our suggestion: we will do it for you for 1.150 Euro even I know that this price will not cover all costs. Deal?

Hi lubi,

Thank you very much for answering, and yes, we can make a deal, happy to know that you are interested in creating those exiting new features.

Maybe you could refund some of your additional development work by selling this as a "pro" or "advanced" edition that is priced a bit above the standard extension, or maybe you could make this an addon that needs to be licensed and installed on top of the component.

I would like to take a few days to create a basic Whitepaper that lists all requirements both for frontend and backend, such as registration, submission of bookable items, frontend editing of items, admin features, commissions etc.

I will do my best to also illustrate all the views, so you know how I imagine these new features. Even if it's not possible to follow these sketches all the time, they will still aid in our communication. Being a frontend developer and user interface designer, I need visuals to create a concept.

I am going on a two-week holiday now and hopefully I can send you my whitepaper when I get back (April 07). In the meantime feel free to contact me whenever you like, my email is Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! Du musst JavaScript aktivieren, damit Du sie sehen kannst.

Thanks again!
Sebastian