Entries For: November 2007
2007-11-21
What Next for GetPaid?
If often seems that "the future is upon us" with GetPaid. People get excited about its features and innovate it to the next level, even when we are still working on the core!
People have really been grabbing GetPaid and running with it lately...which is awesome, inspiring on the one hand,
and yet frustrating since we have issues left for the release on the other :)
Part of what this has motivated, though, is organization for upcoming community collaboration around GetPaid. A few things are already officially moving like:
- PloneFormGen adpater! We all love PFG and SteveM :) Now GetPaid wants to play with that too...really this is what we have chosen for the flexible, donation handling route. See more here. Already several folks have expressed interest in this, including One/Northwest, who made the outstanding Salesforce.com connector / PFG adapter.
- Advanced store features: building on the GetPaid core feature set, many folks are looking to extend its features as an online store. Liam has stepped up and drafted a proposal for that (check it out and get involved).
- Salesforce.com integration (mentioned by sixfeetup, onenw, ifpeople, kapil)
- event/conference registration (also mentioned by many)
- membership management (mentioned by a few)
I am still trying to get a handle on what others are doing with this crazyawesome system (/me tips hat to Kapil again), and try to continue supporting people connecting around collaborating to see new potential realized. If you are a dreamer in this realm, please share your ideas with us on #getpaid or our mailing list! This is really a brewing time for all the ideas and possibilities for the future of GetPaid!
And if that is just all too chaotic and fluffy for you, feel free to tackle an issue :)
GetPaid Buildout on Windows: Broken...fixed
We discovered how few windows users are actually out there recently as we realized that for a long while the Plone 2.5 buildout has been broken for them because of the use of inquant.recipe.download, which itself is a wrapper around gocept.download. Basically difference between "/" and "\"...Read here for more info.
Thanks to Taun for pointing it out and thanks to the community for so quickly responding. We think we have it fixed (though we are relying on Windows users to actually test it out and see).
We also found there are some problems in the tarballs running on Windows. Most likely similar problem...but again we need help testing. So grab the latest tarball! Note: Plone 3.0 users do not need to install Five and CMFonFive from the tarball.
So...please check out the updated buildout for Plone 2.5. See here for more on getting it.
2007-11-20
GetPaid Additions: Discounts! Translation, bug fixes, documentation
GetPaid is excited that the community is leveraging some new contributions in terms of functionality (discounts!), translations (French!), and documentation. Read on for more info...
<cheerleader>Whadda we need? Deployments! Whendaweneed 'em? Now! </cheerleader>
The great thing about GetPaid reaching a stable state is that it is getting used! And that is creating lots of great effects:
- Bugs are getting found and fixed (thanks to Javimansilla, Lucielejard!)
- Extensions of the product are being created to give GetPaid new functionality
- Improvements are being integrated that make the core better.
This week we had great news about some of this additions, including:
- News of a French translation in the works by Lucie Lejard!
- The creation of a discounts extension by Lucie at Six Feet Up. Six Feet Up announced the project this week and the code is already in the public repository, though still in the works. Eventually it will be packaged as an extension for GetPaid.
- The email notifications system got improved once folks started finding out about using (and overriding it). Now it is easier to use your own templates for email notifications.
- New payment processor: in the works is integration with Paymentech, the Chase bank processor. Look out for getpaid.paymentech soon too...
- Additions of new documentation to the GetPaid documentation on plone.org
2007-11-13
GetPaid featured by Zea Partners
GetPaid recently got some press from friends at Zea Partners.
Thanks to Zea Partners for featuring the GetPaid project on its site!
Check out the article, GetPaid, e-commerce and donations with Plone.
2007-11-01
The power of GetPaid: An example job board
i wanted to give an example of using getpaid for more advanced things. as at its heart getpaid is generic order management and payment. i've put in svn an example of using getpaid to dynamically price items, and to integrate with content workflow, which will hopefully be helpful to others.
GetPaid is a very flexible framework, capable of complex and custom implementations. Building on the generic order management and payment system, lots of things are possible :)
Kapil documented one interesting implementation he did for a GetPaid sponsor, Contextual Corp, that shows examples of integrating GetPaid with workflow and custom pricing. The use cases include:
- Users pay to submit job board postings. Once it is paid for, it becomes visible to others.
- Price of the job depends on (a) the job board where it is being created and (b) the role of the user.
The work is in the GetPaid svn repository as GetPaidJob. Read more about it here: Readme.
Thanks to Kapil for writing this up and thanks to Ken and Contextual for sharing!
Download tarballs fixed
Due to a small screwup in my mucking around in the code, two recent tarballs for download had folder structure problems, which made them hard to use. Please try the latest one out with the fixed tarball.
Sorry for messing up code (nightly script). It seems to be working again thanks to some help from Josh Kidd.
You can find the latest tarball for GetPaid download at http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/downloads/list . Should work for both Plone 2.5 and 3.0.
If you notice any problems, please report them in the issue tracker or to getpaid-dev mailing list.
Thanks!
