getpaid examples

The last three months have been a bit of a blur. One of the things that has fallen off my plate was updating the GetPaid blog. So, here's a roundup of news from GetPaid:

Product

• The preferred means of consumption is the recipe! Tarballs are soooo Plone 2! (nothing against tarballs, actually, just no one is packaging them - if you want to lend a hand let us know via the mailing list). So while there aren't any new tarballs about since the 0.6.2 version, GetPaid has actually advanced to 0.7.5 and just reached rev2400! The recipe itself is at version 1.4.1 thanks to the continued efforts of the marvellous Lucie Lejard (aka La Reina de la Receta). Here's some of the changes to look out for:
• Payment processors: Payflopro is now a supported payment processor (larubbio)! ClickandBuy is also supported (olauzanne)! Pagseguro (Brazilian processor) is also in the works (rafaelcrocha) as well as VCS South Africa (hannesc). Ogone, PayPal, and Authorize.net all got an updates.
• PloneFormGen integration: after the demise of the former mercurial repository where this product was hosted, the action adapter to integrate GetPaid with PloneFormGen was migrated into the GetPaid repository (mcgruff.scruff).
• Variable donations amount: GetPaid now natively supports variable donations amounts that can be added to your cart (larubbio)
  
• Salesforce.com Integration: There is a new prodcut, Products.SalesforceGetPaidAdapter. It subclasses from the current Products.salesforcepfgadapter and allows you to specify what fields in your form, and in getpaids order get saved to salesforce when the order's finance workflow moves to CHARGED.(larubbio)
• More goodies: The cart now allows annotations (larubbio), checkout checks for site root to get store settings (lucielejard), discount details are reflected on the thank you page (flejard)
  

Documentation

• How to use the PloneFormGen integration (download PDF)
  
• Features page got light update. 
• Creating Content Types That Are Buyable, Shippable or Donations (dunny, copied from Products.PloneGetPaid documentation to web)
• How do I set up buildout for an existing Plone site with the getpaid recipe? (lucielejard)
• How to tie actions to payments (A brief explanation on how to tie workflow transitions, mailing, etcetera to a payment happening in getpaid) (perrito)
  

Sites

Collecting data on this has been a bit thin lately, even though several people have shared information about sites in the works. One that did launch with GetPaid just today is the York College/City University of New York. If you have additional sites that are live with GetPaid, please let us know via the mailing list!

Community

• Mailing list: 163 people
• Planning continues at our Features Brainstorm doc: http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/wiki/BrainstormingFeatures . Join in! Some of these features are on the drawing boards for Spring development.
  

Well, just in time production (thanks to perrito and dunny), I had the various "howto's" I needed to explain how to use GetPaid for the talk.

In the talk, I introduce GetPaid and its core features, and then show how it can be used to satisfy various use cases, both with the out-of-the-box components as well as with some customization.

The audience was a decent size (especially considering I was up against Joel Burton at same time slot!),

Download slides here.

http://plonegetpaid.com/updates/files/getpaid-presentation-ploneconf-2008.pdf

The Sites Using GetPaid page had become a nightmare to maintain with kupu and I simply couldn't edit it without things blowing up. So, I am really excited to announce that the page is now something organized, lovely, and scalable :D.

I went for my inclination to use structured data and some nice features to clean that mess up and used the ATSuccessStory product (what is also used for sponsors on the site...this is a version slightly customized by the product author, frapell).

Soo.....check out the all new, improved and attractive http://plonegetpaid.com/why/sites-using-getpaid/

I added 4 new sites that hadn't been there previously:

• ABB Orderliterature.com > read more
• Natural Awakenings Magazine > read more
• Health Food Guide > read more
• Women of Reform Judaism > read more
  

You will also notice that there is a portlet with rotating site features on plonegetpaid.com to highlight the sites as you navigate around.

We have some really great example sites out there, so please have a look!

If you have a site to add - please let me know - I am now all caught up with all the sites I know of. Also, if you want to send changes to any info there, please let me know.

Another GetPaid site launched this week - Investors Circle. The organization helps a network of angel and VC investors connect to opportunities to invest in sustainable and responsible business opportunities. ifPeople developed their new site so they can manage the workflow of business plans that are submitted by entrepreneurs as applications to present to the investors. GetPaid is integrated into the workflow so that the submission process includes payment.

Congrats to Investors Circle and thanks for being an early adopter of GetPaid!

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!