[pycon-za] Quicket integration with the PyCon ZA site

[Ruan Zeelie]

That's a nice suggestion right there.

+1.

Ruan Zeelie

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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Jonathan Endersby <
jonathan.endersby at praekeltconsulting.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I worry that we're breaking a nice clean UX to accomodate a small
> percentage of (admittedly important) guests.
>
> Can't we just offer the option of a quicket purchase to non-South
> Africans? ie. A link at the bottom of the page to the quicket page.
>
> J.
>
> On 16 August 2012 14:24, Simon Cross <simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> So Ruan kindly integrated Quicket into the site at fairly short notice
>> but I'm not sure the whole thing was ever really thought through
>> properly from our side.
>>
>> What we had before was: user signs up, user is automatically sent
>> invoice (Hanno and Celeste CC'ed), user receives invoice and pays via
>> EFT, Hanno and Celeste reconcile and email Wendy, Wendy marks people
>> as paid in the Django admin interface.
>>
>> What we have now in QA is: user signs up and enters details and
>> selects registration type, user taken to Quicket widget on PyConZA
>> site and selects registration type again, user is transferred to
>> Quicket and enters details again, user pays Quicket by credit card or
>> EFT.
>>
>> So:
>>
>> 1) Are we happy with Quicket as the only payment method? Specifically,
>> are we happy with receiving something like R100k three days after the
>> conference?
>>
>> 2) Are we happy with users entering the registration type twice?
>> Should we remove one or will someone volunteer to fix errors and
>> reverse payments somehow (is this possible with Quicket?)? Removing
>> one means we rely on Quicket for payment.
>>
>> 3) Are we happy with users entering their details twice? If we remove
>> one, are we happy maintaining the database of registrations entirely
>> in Quicket? Who will migrate the current sign-ups across?
>>
>> 4) How do we match who has paid with the database in Django? Wendy,
>> are you happy to do this?
>>
>> 5) What happens if someone buys multiple tickets via Quicket in a
>> single transaction?
>>
>> 6) The direct EFT details are currently still on the site (under
>> About). If we're not using them they should be removed.
>>
>> 7) Some people will have Quicket tickets. Do those mean anything? Are
>> we using tickets? Do people who signed up elsewhere get tickets?
>>
>> 8) What happens if someone buys tickets on Quicket without signing up
>> via us at all?
>>
>> Before we make the Quicket stuff live we need a plan for how all of
>> the logistics around it are going to work.
>>
>> Schiavo
>> Simon
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