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I work for an organization that is focussed on social justice work, as many of us do, and there is a lot of interest in having a payment process that enables folks to pay for event registrations in multiple installments (what I lovingly refer to as the layaway plan). 

There has been some work at Civi on looking into a rehaul of the accounts and payments system (http://civicrm.org/node/606) and am interested here in seeing if there might be a critical mass of organizations that might be able to fund parts of this work together.  Please let me know here if you are interested.  The work would enable a whole assortment of things including:

1)  an API bridge to a non-proprietary accounting system (so that you don't have to hand enter or balance the account by hand.
2)  the ability to post multiple payments towards a balance.
3)  the ability to assign invoices to specific contacts.

In general, I think this work would enable CiviCRM to hit another tier of usefulness and function for the (primarily?) non-profit and social justice organizations who use it.  If we can all join hands together, the pricetag for this development could become affordable.

Thanks!
Ana

Hi Andrew,

I appreciate your responding.  I think at this point, any development towards this goal would be a good thing, especially if we go about it in a smart way.

I'd love to set up a call.  Still trying to get the sound card on this Dell to work with Ubuntu, but this will give me some motivation.

My week is somewhat open.  I think the best times for me would be tomorrow afternoon (probably too soon), Thursday afternoon, or on Friday (any time).  I am wide open the following week except for Monday, and a meeting at 11am MST on Wednesday.

I'm looking forward to it!

Ana

wonderful.  it all looks very exciting.  i will take a closer look to see if there are any questions i have before we meet on tuesday. 

thanks so much.
ana

i think we might have mistaken the times.  i had us down for tomorrow...  i am available now on skype for chat.  i do not have my headphones in the spot i am working from...

Hi Andrew,

How's this going? Are the schema changes on track for 3.2 code freeze?

Eileen

Cool, that's what I thought you were aiming for. There seem to be a few people following your progress on this so I thought it would be good to see where you are at.

I think there might be others out there prepared to contribute from one of the threads I saw

Hi Andrew - anything you can update about the UI development - I just had a poke around in sandbox but nothing screamed at out me in terms of enabling partial payments/deposits for Events

Thanks Andrew