We’ve used nopCommerce on several sites and been very pleased, and are now venturing into our first site with a need for rentals. As we’re finishing up configurations and starting testing, we’ve noticed several potential issues that make rentals almost non-usable, but want to confirm with this group we haven’t missed something along the way...
* Rentals aren’t returned to inventory after their assigned rental dates
* There is no “rental returned” or similar order status. This feature could 1) better track the order for customers & admins or 2) use as a trigger for adding the item back into stock
* Once an order has been submitted for rental, the item quantity is deducted from inventory immediatly, not deducted from inventory based on rental dates. Example: I submit a rental order today, with a rental date of 1 week from now. The item (original inventory of 1) is already taken out of inventory and now it shows “out of stock” for any other customers who are trying to rent the item, regardless of the dates selected.
* No calendar or schedule in the Admin panel for admins to see/manage upcoming scheduled rentals
* Product page for the customer to select rental dates doesn’t “block out” unavailable dates such as dates in the past, holidays, or days the items is already scheduled for rental.
I’m general, it appears there isn’t much functionality to handle the true operations of rentals, but rather it’s more like just adding an order note to a purchase.
I honestly would love for anyone to be able to guide us towards some plugins, modifications, or process flows that help with rentals. We’ve spent considerable time on nopCommerce stores both in the past and now setting up this new store, but may have to look elsewhere if we can’t resolve some of these issues since this new client is entirely rental-based.
This community has always been great at helpful feedback in the past and I hope there is something we’re just not doing correctly!