Hi Udai,
There are 2 use cases:
a) Send daily SMSes to the loan officers with the centers' collections for
the day (one sms per center to be collected) - with details like "no. of
members", "total collection amount for product A", "total collection amount
for product B", "Center Sequence number (for the day)", etc.
b) The loan officer replies (using SMS), how much was collected from each
center. This goes into an intermediate web application. The branch
manager/Ops manager uses this application to keep track of the collections
for the day almost real-time. Once the LO returns to the branch and verifies
the physical cash against the dues, the intermediate application will use
the "update collection sheet API" to update the mifos database with the
collections for each center.
We can consider if the functionality of this intermediate application can be
built into Mifos as a separate module or not. Because of the possibility of
errors when sending SMS and because of the limitations around capturing
detailed information via SMS, a maker-check step is required before any data
sent via SMS is updated into the Mifos production DB. The format of the SMS
will be roughly as follows:
"3 FULL" - where 3 denotes the center sequence number and FULL denotes
that the center was "fully collected"
"3 PART 1850 - where 3 denotes the center seq number and PART denotes
that the center was "partially collected" and 1850 denotes the amount that
was collected (this does not specify which group or member defaulted. That
will be specified at the branch during the maker-check step.
"3 NOCOLL heavy rains meeting postponed" - "NOCOLL" denotes that no
collections were made and the rest of the SMS specifies the reason why
collections could not be made.
Note: The two MFI's who are interested in this approach does not want to use
an Android application or a mobile based application because of associated
costs and also the effort involved in administering/installing/supporting
the application on each loan officer's mobile phones.
Thanks
Binny
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Udai Gupta <mailt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Binny,
>
> > Is this the final list of API's that will be released in Oct? Will there
> be
> > any API to retrieve the collection sheet for a center or to update based
> on
> > collection sheet data entered?
>
> Most probably these are going to be the available APIs for Oct
> release, AFAIK there is no plan yet to make API for collectionsheet in
> next release. But, I am thinking about offline collectionsheet for
> which new API will be added after Oct release.
>
> The model/services of collectionsheet is clean to be used for REST API
> (thanks to Keith and John), but we need some time to think about the
> approach for offline (e.g. offline storage using JSON) and it will
> require a smart HTML5/Javascript client side code.
>
> I would like to know the use case for which you would need collection
> REST API apart from an offline client (if any). If there are people
> interested in doing something (development) about this project then It
> would be great if they come forward and starting talking (on dev list)
> about what approach they want to take. It would be difficult to work
> blindly based on obscure requirement like "REST API for
> collectionsheet" without knowing how those are going to be used, I am
> saying this because data required by REST calls can differ based on
> the approaches.
>
> Cheers,
> Udai
>
>
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