Re: Items for Rent

Thanks, Jarno! Very helpful!

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Jarno van Driel <jarnovandriel@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Eric,
>
> In regards to your first question, the fact that the SDTT throws an error
> when there's no price doesn't mean your markup is invalid. The only thing
> it means is that it won't generate a rich snippet (in general SDTT errors
> mean the provided markup isn't eligable for Google specific features).
>
> Which makes sense in this case as Product rich snippets normally show
> prices (and reviews if they've been provided). And if there's no price they
> won't show anything extra.
>
> Something I wouldn't worry about if I were you.
>
> As for your second question, you can express an item is for rent by adding
> a 'businessFunction' property to the 'Offer' as such (JSON-LD example):
>
> "@type":"Offer",
> "businessFunction":"http://purl.org/goodrelationsv1#LeaseOut
>
> And as for "RentAction", instead of using 'landlord' or 'realEstateAgent'
> you can simply use the 'agent' property instead.
>
> Does that answer your questions?
>
> Op 8 mrt. 2017 17:56 schreef "Eric Franzon" <eric.franzon@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm working on a project that involves a company (I'll call them
> "RentalCorp"), that rents electronic equipment and services, I'm running
> into some limitations of the schema.org vocab, and I'm wondering if
> anyone here has found workarounds.
>
> Some background:
>
> Rental, as a concept, seems largely limited to real estate and
> automobiles. RentAction <https://schema.org/RentAction>has only two
> properties unique to its type: landlord and realEstateAgent.
>
> Product <https://schema.org/Product>is the accurate type for many of the
> pages I'm marking up, and intend to use *many *of Product's properties.
> I'd also like to include "Offer <https://schema.org/Offer>" so that I can
> describe "availability" and "condition" of items (e.g. this microphone is
> "Like New" and "In Stock").
>
> One big limitation I'm running into is in trying to describe the
> relationship between "Price," which is mandated by some data linters
> (notably Google's SDTT) and the concept of "request a quote."
>
> This company -- and I suspect other companies/industries -- builds a quote
> for each customer based on numerous factors, and does not publish pricing
> (or even price ranges) for individual products or services that might be
> part of that quote.
>
> Price does allow for both number and text datatypes, but even text seems
> to be very constrained. For example, I cannot get the following to pass
> linter tests. Note my attempted workaround by using PriceSpecification to
> describe this textually:
>
>
> <script type='application/ld+json'>
> {
>   "@context":"http://schema.org",
>   "@type": "Product",
>   "@id": "https://www.example.com/product/acme-microphone-x2000/produ
> ct-x2000#product",
>   "name": "ACME Microphone X2000",
>   "offers": {
>     "@type": "Offer",
>     "offeredBy": {
>     "@id": "https://www.example.com/about#company"
>     },
>     "availability": "http://schema.org/InStock",
>     "itemCondition": "NewCondition",
>     "name": "ACME Microphone X2000 for rent",
>   "price": "Available For Rent",
>     "priceSpecification": {
>       "@type": "PriceSpecification",
>       "name": "Available for Rent"
>       }
>    }
> }
> </script>
>
>
> NOTE: I also went down the path of trying potentialAction > RentAction
> <https://schema.org/RentAction>, but that, too, expects Price with the
> same constraints.
>
> QUESTION 1: Has anyone had success describing items for rent that do not
> have a numeric price specified?
>
> QUESTION 2: Does anyone have thoughts about or see need for expanding the
> available terms describing rental items generally?
>
> Cheers,
> --Eric
>
> --
> *Eric Axel Franzon*
>
>
>


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