Email Payment Reminders.

[Anonymous]

Hi, I know it cannot be made manadatory to make payments in RSVP. Is there a way for reminder emails to be sent to those that haven’t paid; and also how does the person come back and make the payment once the booking is made, do they have to enter all their details and register again ?

[Franky]

I’m not going to generate paypal buttons for mail. Either provide them with your paypal info or your bank account info and the amount to pay.

The email possibilities will be extended in the future. I think it’s not that hard to extend the mail form to include 2 options: “only those that didn’t pay yet” and “include pending bookings”.

[Franky]

Ok, this is in trunk now:

you can now select payed/unpayed and pending status when sending mails

I will also try to add a url for payment handling of a booking

[Franky]

And this is now in trunk as well: new placeholder #_PAYMENT_URL for bookings, in case you want people to be able to pay later on, or for reminders

[Franky]

And this is now in trunk as well: new placeholder #_PAYMENT_URL for bookings, in case you want people to be able to pay later on, or for reminders

[Franky]

And this is now in trunk as well: new placeholder #_PAYMENT_URL for bookings, in case you want people to be able to pay later on, or for reminders

[Anonymous]

So does #_PAYMENT_URL give people the ability to pay at another time AFTER they’ve already booked (and not followed through to the payment processor at that time)? It provides a unique URL for that person to “resume” their booking and payment?

That’s fantastic; we’ve been wishing for that ability for a long time. (For now we end up with multiple duplicate bookings because people keep starting over to get through to the actual payment.)

[Franky]

The payment url will refer to the original booking id, so yes: they can thus pay later on. And you can decide to mail that url again later on as well, and only to those that didn’t pay yet if wanted.

[Anonymous]

Again, fantastic! Thanks (on behalf of all your users).

I suppose there’s a small security consideration — one could figure out the URLs and pay for random other people — but it doesn’t seem alarming. All the important stuff is entered at the payment processor’s site, I imagine.

[Franky]

Well, if somebody else pays for you, would you object? 🙂

[Anonymous]

Exactly. Not exactly alarming. 🙂

As long as it’s not a route to harvest other people’s names or e-mail addresses (or previous payment detail) it should be fine. I haven’t seen the feature yet, but if it does display name/e-mail and the URLs are too easily “walkable” people might have a problem with it.

[Franky]

No, it just links to the payment page with the different buttons on it (and the amount to pay). No personal info there.

[Anonymous]

Sounds perfect. Can’t wait to upgrade. 🙂

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