How To Convert A Popular Open Source Shopping Cart For Seat Booking Software
If you are familiar with open source php shopping carts, perhaps you are a webmaster or designer and you know someone who could benefit for having a seat reservation website for their special event this could be an affordable solution.
I have adapted open source php shopping carts like osCommerce and Freeway to present products as seats in a grid style that are then available to purchase through the process of a typical shopping cart right from ‘add to cart’ to the completed sale and then present the seat in such a way as to show purchased seats as reserved in a specially presented seat plan of your theatre.
Any web designer familiar with installing php shopping carts can be adept at customizing the code to make the cart suit their needs. I have produced a special ‘How To’ guide to help build a visual seat reservation system for websites just by adapting the core shopping cart and its code. Its very functional and it works splendidly.
Usually the tried and tested way to sell tickets for your show is through a booking agent using a flat database which is a straight list of seat numbers available referenced from a chart of your theatre seat plan. Why not try to bring your seat plan alive by making each seat clickable from the plan on your website and when a seat is reserved disconnect it from the cart and identify all seats reserved as a totally different color. You get thepicture and you’ve seen it already in the hands of professional organisations selling tickets for shows across the web. If you want such a system for your special event I’m sure it will cost you an arm and a leg to own yourself.
I will take the webmaster through a step by step procedure that will show you how build your very own theatre seat reservation system that can be used again and again. Simply by adapting a core php shopping cart that uses the same principles that so many merchants use for their shopping cart stores all across the internet. All for just a fraction of the cost that a professional design studio would charge.
If you have a special event planned and you want your visitors to reserve or purchase their own seats visually this could be the tool for you.
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