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OK - I've signed up - I will soon own NZD$20 worth of bitcoin! The only thing is ... you can only put money in on Mondays! So, NEXT week I will own my $20 of bitcoin...

In Middle Zealand, the elves (who run our banks) only work one day a week. We underestimated our hay reserves and ran into severe transport issues pretty quickly into the war with Sauron. It's rough but we get by, we're a hardy folk.

Well, the elves are a very scrupulous people I hear - they'd really be my first choice to run the banking system over here. Makes a lot of sense if you ask me.

Should have something just about done on this anyway:

https://github.com/circleinteractive/uk.co.circleinteractive.payment.bitcoin

(emphasis on the 'just about')

Will write a blog post about it tomorrow, do a bit more testing, clean things up - it's getting way past my bedtime here.

The IPN might still be a bit buggy, but likewise, will try and fix that up a bit more tomorrow - it should take a little while for the transactions to complete after being marked as paid due to the confirmations necessary .. but it does look like I might need to do a little more work on that if I'm honest.

It's got this backup cron job that enables itself if you don't have ssl as well - they will only send ipns to an https:// address - probably quite sensible of them really, but it is a bit of a nuisance if you've got to have an ssl certificate to use it, so have tried to design a fallback in, so it will still work without one.

And Eileen, the "Do we have a dev account for Worldpay?" question was one that came up yesterday in fact. The answer is no at the moment, but it is something we could really do with - we wrote that one ages ago using the client's account. So will see about sorting something out on that if I can.

I don't really like their system that much to be honest with you, but would still be happy to do a bit of work on it all the same. Evidently some people like them - I gather they're pretty popular.

And will take a look at that omnipay extension you posted - have just been on a bit of a mission to get this done, but I'm still very interested in that.

Cheers!

Andy

Hi Upperholme,

No worries - we do have a processor for Worldpay, yes - it's an old style payment processor, but should still work on a more recent Civi, or could be made to fairly easily - but it also wouldn't be that much hassle to turn it into an extension, which would probably be the best way to go with it.

We had a couple of clients using it - one of which is still using it (but are on quite an old Civi version), the other one moved to a combination of Sagepay and Veda's SmartDebit extension I think.

FuturePay-wise, it has some of the parameters implemented to handle that, but I'm pretty sure it's not a full implementation - so recurring payments would probably require some work to get working. It wasn't me that originally wrote it, it was written by a freelancer who used to do work for us, which is why I'm slightly unsure about that - but I'm pretty sure that is the case.

I'm quite happy to get what we've got tidied up, tested on a newer Civi and put online somewhere though - I'd been meaning to do that anyway. And would be happy to do some work on the recurring payments side if there was some sort of budget available - you're welcome to PM me about that if you like and I can get someone at Circle to have a chat with you about it and work something out.

But yes, if you can leave that with me for a few days, I will dig that up, get what we've got up on Github or something like that.

Cheers,

Andy