Hello Shopify Experts!
I'm new to Shopify and I'm overwhelmed with where to start.
To give you a gist of the requirement:
I have a client with a business that rents out front yard greeting cards by the day, and delivers, sets up, and returns to remove the signs from the customer's yard on the assigned dates/times.
My goal is to set up products inside Shopify that are the card types, with a solution for scheduling the rental days and setup times. We will also need to provide a system to restrict the delivery range and increase the price based on delivery zones.
Specific details:
- Booking Timeline:
- The service has to be for 48 hours or more from the booking date. If within 48 hours, there's an additional $25 charge.
- Location Preferences:
- Currently, the client increases $25 dollars for every 10 minutes outside of 20 miles. I'm not sure if this can be covered by setting them up in the delivery options within Shopify.
- Pricing:
- Single Phrase Greeting: $125
- Additional Name or Phrase: $15 per every additional 5 letters
- Additional nights: $50 per night
- Requested within 48 hours: Add $25
- Major Holidays: Add $25
- Admin Side:
- They're planning to hire more people to the team so they need to manage their schedule and see who's available/not available for which dates and time.
- No more than 5 bookings per day. Client to be able to increase/decrease the number (ideal but not required).
This is my sample product. Basically, I want the booking functionality to be available to products. It has the custom fields and the updated price but the date and time field is just a text field plus there's no schedule management in the backend.
I saw this booking app which fulfills the booking date, the backend, and possibly the custom fields. However, I don't see it has the capability to update pricing based on the date selected and the other options as well. Now, my question here is - which direction should I go to?
- Build a custom booking app - I plan to use the shopify-php-api because I'm a PHP dev but I don't know where to start. Also, I saw here that it's not possible to update the cart if you're not in the Shopify Plus Enterprise Plan. Is this route a no-go from the beginning?
- Directly modify the theme - I saw a discussion where the Shopify expert explained that based on the requirements, it can be done with 0 apps. Can this be an option for me (and possibly the best)? If it is, where do I start?
- Just subscribe to an app - I might just be thinking everything is complicated when this can be solved by just subscribing to a plan. Can you recommend any apps that can achieve all of the requirements above? The client wants a limited spending of $30/mo but if there's one app that can do all those, I can justify the pricing.
- Subscribe to an app and modify it - Is this possible? Like purchasing the cowlendar app and adding my requirements. (I don't think so.)
Any help is highly appreciated. Thank you so so much!
