Paying for time slots?

[nerrad]

Hi Nick,

First of all WOW! a great bit of software....

Have you considered some type of system where the user can pay for time slots via paypal/cc processor etc first

I think this would be a great feature to add and would help me and others!


All the best keep up the great work and thanks


Darren

[Nick]

That's a very cool idea that has never really crossed my mind.  A lot of users have this hosted for internal use and can bill accordingly.  I'll put this on the feature request list and see how possible it really is.

Thanks!

[nerrad]

Thanks for the reply,

I did attempt to start but my knowledge in php is some what lacking!

I was thinking the user could have the option to pay either now or at a later stage when choosing the time slots much like this:




When the user ops to pay now they will be taken to a checkout screen that calculates the total for charge per hour/s etc (maybe the charge could be set via an admin screen or a config file??)

Also do you think it would be possible to have the system automatically approve pre paid time slots and change the status color to an approved/paid color? Also to have the option enable/disable this feature as all users are of course not going to want / need it as you said many have the own internal billing system.

One more thing i think would be a good idea if to add the title tags to the submit buttons to make them a little more descriptive.

Once again thankyou and i am pretty sure when enough people no about this software it will be as popular if not more so then many well known open source shopping carts or forums!


If there is anything i can do to help let me know


Darren

[nerrad]

Also do you have a time scale for your feature request list?

[Nick]

Automatically approving may be a bit difficult, but I'm not sure since I have not looked into any of this yet.

Turning this feature on/off is a must.  This should also end up being written where it is easy to drop in your own billing plug-in.

I don't have any sort of timeframe for most of the feature requests.  A good chunk of the bigger ones out there are coming in the 1.2 release.  After that, I am going to spend some much needed time rewriting a lot of the underlying code.  I'm not sure how long that will take, but I'm guessing anywhere from 3-6 months, depending on how much help I get.  During this time, I'm going to see what new features will be easy to write in parallel.  I always try to pick the features that are most requested, so when this gets implemented depends a lot on community need.

It's a very cool idea though and I'm pretty excited to work on it, when the time comes.[/quote]

[114211]

I was wondering if there has been any progress on this?

[Nick]

No progress yet.  Version 2.0 should set this up nicely, though.