Posted by SamRose on January 21, 2008 at 7:41pm
I'm interested in being able to set up a pledging system, that can enable donation bounties as a content type, and allows people to first pledge, then be billed if pledges reach a capped amount, or have no one billed of pledges do not reach an amount.
Is it already possible to do this with existing modules (like e-commerce and cck)? If not, I am committed to producing this capability, and would feedback from this group on suggestions about how to approach from a module creation standpoint
For example, should this be connected to an existing API for e-commerce, for instance. This is something that I want to contribute to Drupal community, so advice greatly appreciated.
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e-Commerce is working on something like this
eC v3 is really not able to do this, but v4 will be much more capable of completing this task.
We do have the donate module, and we are looking to extend this so that the donation does not have to be done via the checkout, but instead executing the payment collection via the new ec_receipt module.
No only will you be able to collect the money without needing to register, or use the checkout (which is considered too heavy for donations) but we will also be able to implement recurring payments.
ATM it is a bit short of some of the functionality but I would like to add graphs and things like this to the donate module, and then pull in the ec_receipts functions for direct payments.
Also as part of eC we are adding a community module which will allow people you are running e-Commerce to easily donate a portion of their sales to Drupal, e-Commerce and other projects that they want to donate too. This is completely shop owner configurable so they can set which projects they will donate to, and the percent/maximum amount per transaction.
If you want to help please contact me here or in #drupal-ecommerce
Gordon.
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Gordon Heydon