I'm trying to work out the best way to get OFBiz to support Australian direct-entry payments. This is where a customer makes a payment by directly transferring the money to the company's bank account, usually via online banking. This is currently a very common payment method.
The same system is also used to allow a company to debit regular payments directly from the customer's bank account, or for the company to pay its bills. For storing the relevant bank details, the EftAccount entity seems to be closest. However it is not a good match. I am unsure whether my best approach would be to use the existing EftAccount entity in some way, or to create a new entity. The fields that are relevant to Australian transactions are: BSB: a number denoting which branch of which bank Account number: the account number Account name: the name (person or organisation) associated with the bank account SWIFT code: a code denoting which bank - this is only relevant when one of the banks involved in the transaction is outside Australia, e.g. the customer is paying from an overseas bank account. Bank name: not usually needed, but handy to record Some of these fields map to the existing EftAccount entity, some don't: Account name -> nameOnAccount Account number -> accountNumber BSB -> ? (perhaps routingNumber? I don't know what routingNumber is really for) SWIFT code -> ? Bank name -> bankName What approach is likely to be the best option?Also, I'll need to add support for a new payment gateway to support an Australian provider. It would be nice if all I had to do was create the payment gateway interface code, following the examples for the other third party gateways, and then somehow it all just magically fitted together and worked with the existing code. Is this asking too much? :-)
Cheers, Anne. -- Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 2773 Cheltenham Vic 3192 Phone: (03) 9585 6788 Fax: (03) 9585 1086 Web: http://www.cohsoft.com.au/ Email: sa...@cohsoft.com.au
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