Purchasing points/credits/gold whatever is the first step…

a point system, we’re building one… at least Drew is… lol

the main goal will be to enable the purchase of Points via Paypal or anyother payment processor activated on vBulletin via the adminCP.

as i know nothing about how it work, what i think would be the best is to NOT duplicate the processes. we need something more efficient than the actual vbCredits engine, because it is complicated to understand at first and have a lack of configurations…

so, why is this the first step for a points system?.. because the other parts are easy. adding an element in a hook to give or take points is quite easy.

so:

1. the member access the Transaction Manager
2. it is asked to choose what transaction processor to choose, like Paypal, Worldpay, 2checkout, etc…
3. the member is then asked how much credits to purchase. the page indicate the rates.
4. the member is taken to the transaction processor.
5. coming back from there, the member see how many credits he have now, and that’s it.

there is no need for a new payment api manager, vB have an efficient one… we just need to hook it up and proceed to payments based on the existing system. We only need an admincp that will check the rate for each level of credits, if needed: 1:1000, etc

how long can this take to be coded?