hire > deposit

building a webshop where you can choose between buying and hiring products
when customer chooses to hire he/she will then have to pay a deposit which they get back when the product is returned in good order.
The amount of the deposit varies per product

how can we solve that

: ) Annelies

Hello Annelies,
The solution will probably be to use a "buy or hire" Characteristic so that product price will correctly vary regarding your customer choice.

yes but displaying the price including the deposit will not be very commercial
so we want it to be a extra item, sort of a connected product you need to buy or something

Ok so you'll have to create a "deposit product", and then attach these "deposit products" trough the "Options" tab of your products.

can i add this 'deposit-product' automatically when i customer choose hire-variant??
how??

Hello,
Sorry for the late reply, in your case the best solution will probably be to use 2 custom "Item" fields :
- One for the type of sales "buying / hiring"
- One to include the deposit or not, but which will be restricted to the "hiring" value of the first one (you'll just have to use the "Display limited to" option).

And then to include the price you'll have to develop a plugin which will do it for you and which will be based on the "onAfterCartProductsLoad" trigger.

thnx
there is only one question left. what if there are 8 different amounts of deposit
then i have to make 8 different custom fields or....

A solution can also be to create a "deposit" product custom field which will only be published through your back-end, you'll use that custom field to add a price through your product configuration price, and then you'll use that price on the plugin.

im not a programmer, can you tell me what will be the costs if you do make the solution for us

what we would like is to be able to ad a custom deposit price per product that can be hired
that is will be on de checkout as a separate amount
and it would be perfect if we can keep administration of the refund done in hikashop but thats not necessary

: ) Annelies

Hello,
you can for example post your request through the commercial jobs section .

Hello people! Is it done ? It s been years since the last post so I suspect you can find this already.
Deposit is something that I'm looking for also.
I need to build something that can sell and rent at the same time.

Well we need the product to have 2 option. Buy and rent.
Buy is ok.
Rent should have dates (start-end), and when the date of ending approached we need a notification to emails and an automatic way if its possible to charge the deposit + the rest remaining amount.
I suppose the bank can preauthorize the amount of the deposit and then we can accept the charge from their (bank) app to make the charge.
But Can it be more automatic?
Also how can we subtitude the callendar of avoilable items . Because since they are rented they shouldn t be available for sale or rent.
Thanks!