Automate processing of chapter dues

[gabriel-flynn]

Venmo API library - https://pypi.org/project/venmo-api/

Idea: Create a lambda function (in python since the library is a python library) in AWS or GCP that we can call to verify if a member has paid their dues.

Flow:

1. User clicks a button or something on the website that says pay dues
2. A UUID is generated and attached to their account on firebase
3. They pay through venmo and type that UUID in their payment message
4. The lambda runs on a schedule (maybe every 1-5 minutes? We get 2 million invocations a month for free) and checks if someone has paid
   • We might need to make another table with the primary key being the UUID and the foreign key being the user
5. If there is text in the message matching the UUID then update that members verification status to paid

Concerns

• How to make chapter due pricing easily updateable in the future
• Options to pay for one semester or the whole year? Need to set an expiration date for dues on that user's account
• Still need to check with Reyna if this is something she wants/is useful

[gabriel-flynn]

• Have a way for members to pay their dues without making an account? (Pass in like their netid and first name and last name? to verify who they are)

[gabriel-flynn]

• Have a way to request that we manually verified that they've paid (if they didn't send the right code or paid a different way) Idea:
• For people paying in cash: give them a code they can put in to verify they've paid on the website