Donation Tracker

[Sna.ke]

I noticed the Donation Tracker says it supports Portal, but does it also support IP.Content?

 

We use IP.Content and need a Donation Tracker like this.

 

Thanks,

[Michael]

No sorry, only default and unreal portal at the moment. Future versions will include ip.content support.

[Sna.ke]

Hmm, do you have a timeline for IP.Content support (given the default portal is to be EOL'd soon)?

 

The priority on such support is going to determine whether I wait to purchase from you, or go with one of the other solutions out there.

 

Cheers,

[Michael]

Hmm, do you have a timeline for IP.Content support (given the default portal is to be EOL'd soon)?

 

See here and here. I will be taking over Portal development and support for IPB 3.2 will soon be ready.

 

I'm currently working on v3 of the Donation Tracker (with ip.content block included) as IPB 3.2 final approaches and depending on how soon they get to final may have a release out before or after IPB 3.2.0 final. I can't get any exact time frames as I'm working around the IPB 3.2 release date.

[Sna.ke]

Now that a new version is out, I still don't see any mention of IP.Content.

 

Did this feature make it into the final build?

 

Thanks,

[Michael]

I haven't had a chance to fully update the product page yet but support for the latest donations sidebar hook in ip.content has been included. Can take a screenshot if you would like?

[Colt McCormack]

I am considering buying this product, but am not quite sure if it supports the functionality I need. I am looking for my members to be able to setup recurring PayPal payments. There are 3 tiers of payments ($10, $20, $30), each of which I would like to have their own promotion groups for. I would prefer that these promotion groups last until the end of each month, but if I have to go in exact 30 day increments then I suppose that will work as well. I would like for these 3 tiers of donators to all be contributing to one goal, whose progress bar I can show on the homepage, which resets at the beginning of each month.

 

So basically:

1. Tracks actual recurring payments (subscriptions), meaning it gets the data from PayPal and won't process a donation unless it has actually gone through. Unsure if you have this functionality.

2. Promotes members for each dollar amount to different groups. Almost positive that you can do this.

3. Resets goal to $0 at the beginning of each month. I think I saw this mentioned.

4. Progress bar. I know you have this, but I will be coding a large graphical AJAX thermometer style bar. I am assuming that the info for this is fairly easy to access (via MySQL, and maybe with a bit of adding and division if it isn't precomputed)? I was just going to look at the code you used for the block and mimic it.

5. Can use months (sets of days ranging from 28-31) rather than a set of exactly X days each time. Not totally necessary, but makes much more intrinsic sense when doing donations for a server that is billed monthly.

 

I was planning on doing this all with PHP/MySQL and the PayPal API but noticed your product and figured I would give it a shot before spending several days coding a fairly static system myself (vs. having all of the lovely admin options and blocks that you have created). I hope that you can help me out!

 

Cheers.

Edited September 21, 2011 by Colt McCormack

[Michael]

1. Subscriptions are currently not supported.

2. Yes this is supported, you can setup donation ranges e.g. $0-10, $10-25, $25-50 and setup group promotions in each of those ranges. You can also choose to reward within the ranges per donation or per dollar donated. So for example could promote someone for 30 days for each donation or 5 days for every dollar donated.

3. Not in v3.0.0, I'm working on re-introducing this for v3.0.1.

4. I decided to go with a css graph instead due to resource and compatibility issues, so only the basic css graph included. But both the total donations and goals data is cached, so you can pull this info up, divide to get the percentage amount pretty easily. Can provide example code if necessary.

5. Could you expand on this please? Not sure what you mean.

 

If you have any more questions or suggestions, let me know. :)

[Colt McCormack]

Ah, too bad about the subscriptions. Everything else seems good. As to #5 I basically meant always align each payment with whichever month it occurs in (so if someone donates during September the have access until the last day of September [the 30th], if it was February it would last until the 28th), however I can see how that would cause issues with those who donate late in the month. A 30 day month-independent cycle probably WOULD be the better option.

 

Any idea on how hard it would be to add the subscriptions? Perhaps allow recurring payments to be processed through the normal gateway and save the PROFILEREFERENCE field that you may specify via the API for that particular payment into the database, then check the PayPal donations via then API every X hours with cron and match the recurring payments processed for that period (if any) to the IPB member via the aforementioned PROFILEREFERENCE field in the database. Then process a new donation with those details pulled from the database and proceed as per usual.

Edited September 26, 2011 by Colt McCormack

[Michael]

No not really haven't looked into it with great detail yet. As far as I'm aware, I believe Paypal's ipn will contact the return ipn url automatically anytime a subscription is payed. So you shouldn't need to use cron. I'm not sure what field is used however so you could store the members id, so it would have the member id posted back when ever the subscription is payed.