Reminders/Notification – WooCommerce?

[astcit]

Good Morning guys,
hope all is well 🙂
I need some advice in regards to what direction I should be taking with my design/customization problem….
I’ve had some help/guidance from you truly amazingly talented people with modifying your community events calendar add-on into a asset booking system for my works Intranet & it works great 🙂

Although, there are a few issues i need help with again…(which maybe out of the scope of the forms, so if it is, guidance would be highly appreciated);
our asset system is working a treat, but when an asset hasn’t been returned and is overdue, there’s no way as such to get a reminder to be sent to admin saying the item hasn’t been ‘booked back in/overdue’.

my question is;
if we were to purchase the WooCommerce add-on, could we use this to be able to ‘check in/check out’ items from our custom fields? i saw that the ‘Follow-up Emails’ extension for the WooCommerce add-on maybe able to be used as the email/notification side of things.

Ive also checked out the forum in the sense of ‘event reminders/alarms’ (https://tri.be/support/forums/topic/event-reminders-2/ & https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar-pro-alarm/ ) but i don’t think this is really going to be suitable for our situation.

[Josh]

Hello astcit,

Thanks for reaching out to us!

I’m happy we were able to get you hooked up with the booking functionality!

I took a look at the configuration that you’ve described with the WooTickets and Follow-up Emails. Based on what you’ve described, it seems like these may be able to accomplish what you’re looking for with possibly a little bit of customization. However, it also may be a little overkill for what you’re describing.

An alternative could be to use some of the schedule events functions in WordPress to send emails based on created events end date. You can find more details on those functions here & here.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

[astcit]

having a look in to this currently thanks josh, if you dont mind keeping the thread open until ive gotten back to you..
may require some more assistance.

[Josh]

Hello astcit,

Thanks for following up with us.

No problem, I’ll leave the ticket open for now. Let me know if you have any further questions while looking for a good solution to your situation.

Thanks!

[astcit]

Hey there josh, still working on this,
my php skills weren’t able to take me across the finish line for this..
currently working on it now.
hopefully will have some sort of result this week and have something to share with the community

[Josh]

Hello astcit,

Awesome! Thanks for following up with us.

I look forward to seeing the solution you come up with.

Thanks!

[astcit]

Hey josh, just thought id give you an update in regards to this…
its turned into a bit of a hunt for eldorado, but non the less, its still a hunt, my friend 🙂

I def need to open a couple other threads to work out other questions that lead into this…..

but so far, process of;
cron job of some sort running hourly,
check End event > check todays date > if ended > send email.

but the idea has sort of evolved a bit from there,
becos were using this as a booking system, we decided we need to be able to let the backend user know if the item is ‘available’ or not for booking,
SO, im going to use the ‘custom field’ area of the community event calendar to create a “Status= In/Out” checkbox, add this to the process of above:
cron job run hourly, check “status” > if in, do nothing > if out > send email

Im really hoping at the end of it all, I’ll have something useful for the community to use and maybe incorporate into their own site,

[Josh]

Hello astcit,

Thanks for following up with us!

This definitely sounds like you’re on a good track with getting the functionality that you need. I think it would definitely be helpful for others in the community facing a similar situation to see a roadmap from someone that has been down the path before.

Thanks!

[rsalerno]

Hello astcit

I’m looking for the same functionality. I was just about to start development on my own for this. Would you be willing to share your code? I can help in completing it. Maybe open a gitub project?

[Josh]

Hey astcit,

If you would like to share your results, it would be great if you emailed them to pro[at]tri.be while referencing this thread and we can maybe put a tutorial together or some other resource for the community.

I’ll go ahead and close this ticket. If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to open a new one.

Thanks!

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