Thanks Ed. I can meet at 14:15 or 14:30 GMT on Friday. On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 4:50 PM Ed Cable <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you Steve for your thorough review. Apologies for the delay. I > wanted to get the payment gateway group together for another call so we can > identify the best path forward in the four areas you specified, check in on > the progress Antony has made with his code and how we can incorporate > Vladimir's data model. I also want to discuss if we should try to scope out > another project for GSOC centered around this - I think we have the needed > clarity now but wanted to ship somethign to the community prior to after > this summer. Perhaps we could aim for an alpha version prior to GSOC and > have the GSOC student work on the beta. > > Would this Friday at 1400GMT work for everyone? > > We can use Hangouts Meet for the call. Folks can join through: > https://meet.google.com/ajy-twnd-irs > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:59 AM, Steve Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone - >> >> I have been spending some time over the past few weeks trying to >> understand >> the current status of the Mifos Payment Gateway and determine what things >> still need to be done. I wanted to summarize my understanding of where the >> gateway is at. >> >> I spoke with Avik to talk through the requirements and what work has been >> done so far. Vladimir Fomene worked to develop a data model and some basic >> functionality around inbound (loan repayments) and outbound >> (disbursements) >> transactions. At the same time, Antony Omeri was developing a parallel >> model and platform.Over the past couple of months Antony has developed >> much >> of the core functionality and integrated it into the Fineract platform, >> including using ActiveMQ for messaging. >> >> You can see a demo here of Antony's work. More functionality has been >> implemented since this was recorded, including porting from RabbitMQ to >> ActiveMQ >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=824&v=xqWIveT57vo >> >> And the repo is here: >> https://github.com/OmexIT/fineract >> >> It seems to me that the best course forward is to continue to build on >> Antony's platform. However, there are elements of Vladimir's data model >> that I think we should consider integrating into Antony's platform - >> particularly the ability to configure connections between MFIs and >> MMPs/aggregators. We also need to think through functionality for error >> handling and rolling back transactions. Beyond that, there are additional >> use cases around batch disbursals, reconciliation, etc. >> >> If there are developers who are interested in working on bringing this >> project to completion, I see at least 4 areas that need work: >> 1) Expanding the schema to allow configuration parameters between an >> MFI >> and MMP (the API credentials, etc for a particular MFI connection to a >> provider/aggregator) >> 2) Implementing a couple of specific payment providers to prove out the >> functionality - possibly Beyonic and something like RazorPay >> 3) Implementing some kind of UI that we can use as a test platform - >> testing disbursals and repayments >> 4) Implementing use cases that have been defined but not yet developed >> - >> batch disbursals, reconciliation, etc. >> >> Thanks, >> Steve >> > > > > -- > *Ed Cable* > President/CEO, Mifos Initiative > [email protected] | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649 > <(484)%20477-8649> > > *Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org > <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos> > >
