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Fruent Solutions #30

Open neelkanta opened 11 years ago

neelkanta commented 11 years ago

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Fruent will have solution coverage for [facility owners to provide open or closed statuses] for their facility, along with the ability for [facility owners provide opening times for their facilities]. [Anyone can follow a facility's schedule] should they choose to do so. [Service providers can use facilities to provide services], and facilities can participate in the services offered by a service provider. Anyone can follow a service provider or anyone can follow a facility.

Anyone can follow a Facility Schedule :: Anyone can choose to follow a Facility's schedule. Facilities have their schedule public, and anyone can view their schedule. Users can choose to subscribe to a facility's open and closed information to get updated whenever a facility is open/closed. Users can choose to subscribe to a facility's schedule to get updates whenever a facility changes its schedule.

Facility Owners provide open/closed status :: Facility owners are able to define whether they are open or closed at any moment of time. Facility owners are encourage to visit this space every day, and “open” their shop to the world,and also notifying the world when they expect to be closing (“last orders”). When facility owners go home, they “close” their shops by revisiting this space and informing visitors when they will be back again.

Facility Owners provide Opening Times :: Facility owners can also define a schedule for their facility, covering the times they plan to be open or closed. If the define a plan, then the opening and closing times will be controlled by the system, and they will not have control over it. Effectively, facility owners are asked to select between having an automated plan or not having any plan.

Service Providers use Facilities to provide Services :: Service Providers are able to provide services using Facilities. They invite facilities to join with a defined role for that service. Facilities can request to join a service with defined role. When facilities request to join, service providers can view details of the location, such as its location, the other services it already provides, the other service providers it does business with, how many consumers follow it, whether consumers have left good feedback about the facility, the facility’s opening hours, how often the facility updates its status, etc. to decide whether to grant it permission to join with a specific role for that service.