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<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">Hi everyone,</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">I know it’s been a
little quiet on the list for a while, so I thought it would be
good to share a progress update with you as soon as it made
sense. And I think now it does: I just published a Git
repository with my initial work on a <a
href="https://k.sfconservancy.org/NPO-Accounting/civipay">CiviCRM
extension for a payment system</a>.</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">This is pretty much the
bare minimum interesting amount of code. All it does is set up
the concept of a payment request (as a kind of “case” in
CiviCRM), define who’s related to those cases (the
“client”—requester in our parlance—and the bookkeeper), and the
different states the request can be in. Combined with CiviCRM’s
stock behavior, this already covers a number of our functional
requirements around keeping track of state and notifying
participants about state changes.</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">It’s not a lot. It took
some time just to familiarize myself enough with CiviCRM (and
PHP!) to get ready to start doing the development. But I thought
this made sense as a starting point, before diving into the more
development-heavy work of defining expenses of a request and
their corresponding validations.</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">Please take a look, and
let us know if you have any questions, ideas about next steps,
or areas where you’d like to contribute.</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">Thanks,</p>
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