Create a basic bank transfer payment module

[pedersen]

To allow bank transfer as a payment option, a basic bank transfer module has been created. It will generate a page and email with the necessary account information.

Concerning the attached patches:

• is the file htdocs/bankTransfer.py really necessary? I modeled it after the files for paypal and co.
• the second patch adds a hook to inject text from the plugin to paymentDetails.

[pedersen]

Main patch

[pedersen]

patch for hook

[pferreir]

Thanks a lot for the patch.

May I ask what is the purpose of the module? Is it only to show the account information?
How different is it from adding this information to the "Payment details" field in the E-payment module config?

[pedersen]

The main difference is: This module has access to the full user information and can deleiver e.g.the full subject with a personalized ID for tracking the bank transfer. Now a user can select bank transfer explizitly on the payment page and will get a personalized display.
I plan to enhance the module to be able to also generate a pdf-invoice as attachment to the mail, so this will maybe pave a way for #751.

[jbenito]

Hi Pedersen,

Thank you very much for your plugin. I was having a look at your contribution and it is a very good idea.
On the other hand, we have the feeling that creating an epayment plug-in for that is a bit too big. We definitely see the need and we'd like to propose a different solution:

In the Epayment tab for a conference:

​http://indico.cern.ch/ihelp/html/UserGuide/Conferences.html?highlight=epayment#e-payment

There is a field named "Detail of payment". Whatever somebody writes there, it shows up in the page where one can choose the e-payment system (last step in the registration process).

We could add there, the possibility to insert "tags" and one tag could be "UniqueID"; in the same way as it's done in other parts of Indico (e.g.: ​http://indico.cern.ch/ihelp/html/_images/confreg14.png). Then, an event organizer could write a text like:

You can pay using our e-payment system (see "Pay now" button below) or 
by bank transfer using the following details:

Subject: {UniqueID}
Bank account: XXXXX
Bank: YYYY''

Indico would replace {UniqueID} by the real unique ID for each registrant.

Even more, we could rename "Detail of payment" to "Bank transfer details" and directly let Indico handle the different text choices and display of options. Indico would directly display either:

• You can pay by bank transfer or credit card, or
• You can only pay by bank transfer, here the details..., or
• You can only pay by credit card from the following button...

What do you think?

[pedersen]

Yes, the possibility to add tags to the details screen is a good idea. Your suggestion sounds really promising to me.

With the plugin I really aimed for the possibility to attach a pdf invoice with all necessary details and generate an email with all details.

[jbenito]

I see, as you have mentioned before, we would like to be able to generate bills (#751) directly from the list of registrants. Right now you can click and get a PDF with badges for instance. We could do the same for bills, we already have all the information (unique id, how much money they need to pay, etc) that we need.

If you agree on the "tags" idea and you would have the time, we would be more than happy to integrate it. Thanks again for your time!

[pedersen]

new version of the hooks

[pedersen]

new version with pdf invoice

[pedersen]

a mail-order credit card eapyment module

[pedersen]

The changes are now available via git from ​git://trac.frm2.tum.de/home/repos/git/frm2/webserver/indico.git as well in the brach master_email