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Cephalic
02-28-2008, 10:06 AM
I run a rehearsal studio and am trying to think of how to create an interactive schedule/payment method.

The customer would look at a calendar displaying available times (and names of bands who booked time/when they booked it). The customer can then purchase by clicking an open slot and selecting amount of hours. This will then transfer into a PayPal account. Once payment is complete, PayPal bounces back to our website, and the person who paid can enter his band's name in the slot where his hours are. At the same time, the list of possible hours remove that particular date and time.

I'd like to make this a fully automated system, but am not really sure how to approach all of this. If anyone is interested in helping me out I'd greatly appreciate it.

ray326
02-28-2008, 10:02 PM
You don't want to insert payment processing in the middle of scheduling. You need to collect all the information, put the scheduled times in temporary lock, successfully collect payment, change the temporary lock to permanent. This isn't a really complex application but plan on it taking at least several hundred hours to be done properly.