Re: Counting money

["Alexey Parshin" <alexeyp@gmail.com>]

We currently have 1-1 relations between course and class. So, the money can be distributed directly from class. I'm asking, because if we have more than two source/destination types (more than person and class), then it requires different structure for the tables. (I'm still thinking on the best implementation).

2007/6/8, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh <ilya@total-knowledge.com>:

Course accounts are needed, since course authors will be drawing money
from them.
There is also class->course transaction possibility.

Alexey Parshin wrote:
> First of all, I needed to confirm the 'account' entity.
>
> Now, as far as I see, these transactions always include to parties: a
> person account and a class account.
> A person may be one of: author, teacher, student, admin, translator,
> or anonymous (for donations).
> I'm not sure about course, however. I need to understand, if we need
> other source/destination accounts (besides person and class) and what for.
>
> As soon as we have account system, the stored procs handling the money
> to/from these accounts can use transaction rules.
>
> 2007/6/7, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh <ilya@total-knowledge.com
> <mailto: ilya@total-knowledge.com>>:
>
>     As far as sources/destinations go, I could also think
>     of translators as destination (not sure we need it within
>     the system, but probably not much extra cost) and also
>     there is one other source - generic donation (could be even
>     from outside person that doesn't sign up to anything at all).
>
>     Oh, and people might want to donate to Total Knowledge,
>     for writing such a wonderful system ;-) Also not sure if we
>     need to integrate that into UU itself, or just link to some
>     separate page for that.
>
>     Now, on top of that all, we need to find a way to define
>     distribution rules/procedures for shared accounts (class,
>     course)
>
>     Alexey Parshin wrote:
>     > Gentlemen,
>     >
>     > Since we gonna have a money traffic (well, at least for closed
>     > server), we need to define - what are the possible sources and
>     > destinations of these money.
>     >
>     > I can think of few sources:
>     >
>     > 1) Students are paying for class:
>     >   source: a student, destination: a class account
>     >
>     > 2) Teachers are paid for teaching:
>     >   source: a class account, destination: a teacher
>     >
>     > 3) Authors are paid for the authorship:
>     >   source: a class account, destination: an author
>     >
>     > How does that sounds for you? This creates an entity 'account'..
>     >
>     > --
>     > Alexey Parshin,
>     > http://www.sptk.net
>
>     --
>     Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
>     Total Knowledge. CTO
>     http://www.total-knowledge.com
>
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> Alexey Parshin,
> http://www.sptk.net

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