Idea to make it harder to forget to pay for payment requests

[LenaWil]

I sometimes forget to pay payment requests.

There is a payment history page, but it has a couple deficiencies.

1. Not everyone (cough Q cough) marks the paid thingy if you paid it. Or other things for that matter.
2. Not everyone (cough Q again cough) puts payment links in the app, and sometimes they only put it into the Vok chat, which I am not in, but the entry keeps in the history.
3. There is no filter option to filter the ones you paid from the list.
4. It’s relatively hidden so sometimes I forget it exists.

So my idea is to add two functions.

1. A function to request help stats to be customised. E.g. you press a button if you helped cleaning up and paying, and then the owner of a list gets a notification that they can quickly change your status to cleaned by the press of a button. And the same with paid as status. I am kinda in doubt how complicated I want the request functionality to be. Maybe an extra option if the payment link is invalid to report that.
2. A filtered version of the history page with a notification dot.
   • If there is a payment link in the description, the status is not paid or claiming to have paid, and there is an amount set, it will be on the list.
   • there will be a notification dot similar to the notification dot you get when you get a member as head of the association.
   • I am not sure yet how exactly to implement that database efficiently, but we will see.

I don’t have time to work on at this moment, maybe after the exam week, but I thought I would type it out now, so other people are aware and can critique my idea.

[mhvis]

Sounds nice. If you can find time to work on it it would be great!

What's currently missing in the app is an easy way to notify diners. I think having that would solve a lot of issues including this one. My idea for that would be to improve the comment system and add email notifications as shown below. I would gladly create a PR for it but only after approval from @DutcherNL. I will make sure that the implementation prevents spam.

The reason why Q doesn't use the payment URLs is probably because the method is not very flexible. You can only provide a URL even though most Tikkie-like apps only let you copy some text where you need to extract the URL (which I find very stupid). It is also not visible before entering a URL that you can actually notify diners of the URL. As for the clean/cook/shop, there is not really an incentive to provide it. If there was some kind of leaderboard that might help :rofl: .

[LenaWil]

What's currently missing in the app is an easy way to notify diners. I think having that would solve a lot of issues including this one. My idea for that would be to improve the comment system and add email notifications as shown below. I would gladly create a PR for it but only after approval from @DutcherNL. I will make sure that the implementation prevents spam.

Isn’t there a payment reminder email button already?

[mhvis]

Isn’t there a payment reminder email button already?

Yes but

• Until #228 is merged it's broken. For me it doesn't work on Android nor on Linux Chrome.
• It's only visible after entering a link so not very well-known.
• WhatsApp (with an existing group) has the advantage of low effort, familiarity and an easy way to notify people. That far outweighs the disadvantage of not reaching exactly all diners. So that's why people will use that. If you want people to use this site it needs to compete with that. Which means that it should at least be possible to notify all diners in 1 or 2 clicks. And then email notifications are still inferior to WhatsApp but that's the best we can do. The Web Notifications API is also still inferior to WhatsApp but might be better.

[LenaWil]

Ah, I forgot about #228.

That also seems like a good idea, and easier to implement.

For Q there prolly needs also a notification dot, or just in general a warning if people haven’t put in their own email adres, and the email adres registered is the non working Q one if that’s the case?

[mhvis]

For Q there prolly needs also a notification dot, or just in general a warning if people haven’t put in their own email adres, and the email adres registered is the non working Q one if that’s the case?

The email address that is used for Q logins is always the personal address so this should be good.

I think your idea is great as well and in no way in conflict with my idea, they can both be useful to add.