Entries For: May 2008
2008-05-29
GetPaid integration discussions: PFG and SF.com
There have been some discussions about integrating GetPaid and other useful tools...like Salesforce.com and PloneFormGen, so I wanted to point out some discussions on those going on currently.
Ain't integration fun!? We hope so... Lots of talk recently about integration GetPaid with PloneFormGen (for flexible forms leading into transactions) and Salesforce.com (to write transaction data into the CRM). These have long been areas of interest in the community, and I wanted to point out a couple threads of conversation going on around these (yes, I have been instigating some discussion again...).
PloneFormGen + GetPaid = single page checkout
At least, we hope! Ever since the first release of getpaid, we realized that a flexible donation/payment form making option was desired for GetPaid. We know that everyone wants their donation form slightly different, so an option like
PloneFormGen, which also has wide adoption in the community, seemed like an obvious choice.
One/Northwest and others have worked on an adapter for mapping PFG data into salesfoce.com, which seems like a great model for this use case. This leverages the flexible form making and integrates it into another system for storing/manipulating what was collected in the form - brilliant! For more on
this, see this blog post.
The concept would be similar for Getpaid integration with PFG: map fields from a form into GetPaid cart and/or checkout process. Some potential use cases:
- Make a single page checkout (so you enter all on one page and that generates the order directly)
- Ordering multiple items from a single page
See an example of both of these at: http://tinyurl.com/53yr8o
the wiki: http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/wiki/PloneFormGenAdapter (same
page referenced by the checkout refactoring discussion...).
See and contribute to thread here.
Salesforce + GetPaid = tracking those customers
Another case with a lot of interest. I started some discussion on the Plone Salesforce Integration list (and then didn't realize I was not getting emails from the list...). In this case, a nonprofit would want to record orders into the CRM Salesforce.comSee and contribute to thread here
And one day...maybe there will be a GetPaid + PloneFormGen + Salesforce.com integration! Oh the bliss!!
We would appreciate your ideas, feedback, questions, and offers to contribute :)
2008-05-08
GetPaid and Multiple currencies update
We got an update today from a GetPaid community member about progress on using multiple currencies in GetPaid.
Throughout the history of GetPaid, there have been several people interested in multiple currencies in GetPaid. I was excited to hear from Jean-François Roche of Affinitic today about his progress in getting multiple currencies working in the context of GetPaid. I found out that he already has some useful use cases working and is waiting to get them in production to be able to merge them back into GetPaid.
Code monkeys can check out the latest in an svn repo. For those of us who prefer English explanations...a brief summary of what I learned about the work:
- The work grew out of the need to manage currency based on the country of the buyer
- The UI gets the price from the buyer at first entrance in the shop and then a utility that manages policies for the link between the country and currency picks which price to show.
- Each country defined in the policies then has a separate price
