Payments, help us create v1 for the Market functionality

luceos

Based on the above discussion I wrote a ticket on our internal planning tool. I think this would be a great first version for a feature that introduces the ability for users to sell things on your community. Please I'd love you to review this and give me your opinions. Please understand that I am strongly believing in building something first and iterating based on needs of subscribers.

Let's add a feature to Payments that allows users to sell things from within a discussion. Some requirements/assumptions:

Only single payments for now
Only 1 item/quantity for now
Use Stripe Connect
Platform fee is configurable per tag
Permissions to enable Markets for Groups and Buying for Groups
A Market is a discussion that contains an item/thing that is for sale.

How I foresee this works from an admin's perspective:

Go to Permissions Admin page to change the permission "Create Markets" and "Buy from Markets" for specific user groups. These permissions need to be restrictable per tag, not global!
Go to Tags admin page
Edit tag, shows TagEditModal
Modal shows Toggle to enable tag for "Markets", if toggled on show numeric input for platform fee percentage (can be 0)

How I foresee this works from a users Merchant perspective:

User goes into User Settings - Payments page
User sees a button "Connect to Stripe" to create a Connect account. Or a button "Connected to Stripe" which should allow updating/resyncing this connection if ANY tag has "Markets" enabled and they're part of a group that have the permission "Create Markets"
User sees a new button on the home page called "Create Market" which opens a Discussion Composer where the tags are filtered by those that have "Markets" enabled and a custom input form with a currency and amount field.

How I foresee this works from a users Buyer perspective:

User can see any Market Discussion, but only sees the "Buy this" button if they're part of a group with the "Buy from Markets" group.
The "Buy this" button opens a modal that initiates the Stripe payment form, like the other payment methods (if possible).
Once the user completes the payment the Buy this button will be removed and the discussion locked.
An event post is created in the discussion showing which user bought it.

Considerations:

How do the currency input effect the stripe functionality, is it possible?

Payments extension discuss: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/26095
Payments extension: https://flarum.org/extension/blomstra/payments

FlarumNOOB

User sees a button "Connect to Stripe" to create a Connect account. Or a button "Connected to Stripe" which should allow updating/resyncing this connection if ANY tag has "Markets" enabled and they're part of a group that have the permission "Create Markets"

On this point it would be more useful to have multiple operators solution, also cryptocurrencies since most of the time stripe has a very strict policy on transactions needing multiple verifying processes.

Modal shows Toggle to enable tag for "Markets", if toggled on show numeric input for platform fee percentage (can be 0)

Since Flarum is a really good project, more performant and modern than a lot of extremely expensive community softwares, it would be interesting to consider an option to directly finance Flarum development by fees and maybe one day a competitive Flarum platform with hosting plans (more like wordpress and woocommerce)

luceos

FlarumNOOB On this point it would be more useful to have multiple operators solution, also cryptocurrencies since most of the time stripe has a very strict policy on transactions needing multiple verifying processes.

This has been requested many times before, but usually for PayPal. I've decided against this for several reasons, but the most important one is code complexity. Choosing to run off of Stripe keeps the risk of errors to a minimum. And the fact that Stripe now also supports PayPal is nice too.

So this is not going to happen in this extension.

FlarumNOOB Since Flarum is a really good project, more performant and modern than a lot of extremely expensive community softwares, it would be interesting to consider an option to directly finance Flarum development by fees and maybe one day a competitive Flarum platform with hosting plans (more like wordpress and woocommerce)

I assume this does not relate to the feature draft of Markets for the Payments extension?

You can actually support Flarum financially:

As for hosting plans, that's exactly something that will happen in the next month or so, see:

FlarumNOOB

Hello, hope everything's fine!

I was wondering if there's any update on the market functionality integration.

luceos

FlarumNOOB planned, but no progress yet.

FlarumNOOB

Meanwhile I was wondering if this extension https://flarum.org/extension/blomstra/payments works and is reliable.
To not get off-topic i also post it as a possible reference for dev if working.

luceos

FlarumNOOB yes payments is stable, this topic is purely about an additional feature for it.