Hi

Does anyone know of any open source/free/very cheap solutions for accepting course bookings online?

Basic requirements are:

- Accept payment via credit/debit card but via PayPal/NoChex or similar

- Allow me to restrict the number of people who can book per course

- Automatically store details of course attendees in MySQL database

- Auto email attendee when payment is accepted (preferably a configurable template for the receipt, to allow adding custom information)

Basic process I want them to follow is:
- View details of course on plain HTML page
- Click on a "Book Now" button (if no places left, not allowed to proceed)
- Get asked for name, address, email, phone, etc.
- Click on a "Supply Payment Details" button
- Pay via external payment provider (I don't have a merchant account)
- Get returned back to main site with confirmation page, and receive email confirmation of booking

Essentially, I want a totally hands-off process.

Any ideas?

If there's nothing open source or free, suggestions on commercial packages that aren't stupidly expensive (we have a VERY limited budget) are welcome.

Thanks and regards
Gordon

I take it you do want it in PHP?

If so, PostNuke might have a modul as well to implement this. I am sure someone might know of a few programs in PHP around here.

Originally posted by coreybryant
I take it you do want it in PHP?

That would be ideal. I am slowly learning bits of PHP.

Perl would be OK but I'm not so comfortable with that.

Check out: http://www.hotscripts.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?bool=AND&query=booking&catid=2 - the site is really slow right now, but it shows a few different PHP scripts.