[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Anyone sending patron email along with Stripe payments?

[Yamil Suarez]

Martha,

Thanks for the tip on the DB table and field!

Yamil


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Yamil Suarez, MCS
Associate Director of Library Systems & Web Development

Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02215

ysuarez at berklee.edu
617-747-2617

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Martha Driscoll <driscoll at noblenet.org>
wrote:

> Hi Yamil,
>
> Evergreen stores the Stripe approval code in money.credit_card_payment.approval_code.
> You will have multiple rows matching a given approval_code if the patron
> paid for several charges.  Stripe only records the lump sum paid under the
> approval_code.
>
> Martha Driscoll
> Systems Manager
> North of Boston Library Exchange
> Danvers, Massachusettswww.noblenet.org
>
> On 5/12/2017 1:04 PM, Yamil Suarez wrote:
>
> Terran or others,
>
> Thanks for the info and feedback. You are making me realize that I am
> wondering about a couple separate things about Stripe use in Evergreen.
>
> First one, is figuring if patrons can be emailed a receipt from either
> Stripe or EG if they paid a bill. Not sure if the EG Stripe implementation
> supports this. This just as a convenience to the patron, and apparently if
> Stripe get the patron email it will send the patron a receipt email. Though
> I know the EG patron record will keep track of past payments, and library
> staff should be able to look that up (maybe patrons too?).
>
> My second question is that I would like to see at at least one bit of
> patron or transaction related info be sent to Stripe, just so if I need to
> troubleshoot a payment I can tell transactions apart on Stripe.com. Right
> now on the Stipe.com site I only see a transaction cost. Though maybe there
> is a Stripe.com transaction number that is stored in EG so I can reference
> each other? I checked on the EG staff client by looking at one of my test
> Stripe payments, and did not seem to see one. Though it could be in the EG
> database.
>
> Does anyone have any comments on suggestions based on my questions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Yamil
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:16 AM Terran McCanna <
> tmccanna at georgialibraries.org> wrote:
>
>> Some of our libraries are using Stripe but we're not doing anything
>> that's not built in. Interesting idea, but I wonder if it would be better
>> to send the email through an action trigger notification instead so that it
>> could be for any type of payment and without passing any extra information
>> to an outside source?
>>
>> Terran McCanna
>> PINES Program Manager
>> Georgia Public Library Service
>> 1800 Century Place, Suite 150
>> Atlanta, GA 30345
>> 404-235-7138 <%28404%29%20235-7138>
>> tmccanna at georgialibraries.org
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Yamil Suarez <ysuarez at berklee.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Good Morning,
>>>
>>> To anyone using Stripe payments in EG, have you customized the relevant
>>> code to send the patron email address to Stripe, so then Stripe can send
>>> the patron a receipt email after payment?
>>>
>>> I am on EG 2.9 so this might be addressed in a later version of EG. Just
>>> wondering if anyone has explored sending purposely to Stripe anty
>>> additional patron metadata. We are also thinking of sending just the number
>>> of bills paid in a particular Stripe transaction.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Yamil
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --------------------------------
>>>
>>> Yamil Suarez, MCS
>>> Associate Director of Library Systems & Web Development
>>>
>>> Stan Getz Library
>>> Berklee College of Music
>>> 1140 Boylston St
>>> Boston, MA 02215
>>>
>>> ysuarez at berklee.edu
>>> 617-747-2617 <%28617%29%20747-2617>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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