cheque/check printing, wire transfer automation

[Daniel Pocock]

On 1 September 2016 20:55:12 CEST, Josh Berkus <josh at agliodbs.com> wrote:
>On 09/01/2016 11:38 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> 
>> Will the initial phase of the reimbursement effort try to automate
>> cheque printing and/or preparing wire transfer instructions?
>> 
>> There are already some country-specific APIs with free software
>> implementations, e.g. for Germany[1], it would be useful to be able
>to
>> push data into these systems and/or help develop or enhance related
>free
>> software projects.
>
>This seems like a great reason for a plugin infra.  Maintaining API
>compatability ... let alone print formats ... would be a real challenge
>for the core project.


That is an excellent point, I wasn't trying to suggest coding directly to every one of these APIs.

An abstraction layer could probably work like ODBC for databases.

It would be good to keep the API generic enough to support things like Paypal and Bitcoin as well as legacy banking.