NEEDS GROUP FEEDBACK Requirement R4. 9. Users and coordinators are both notified of successful booking requests: bookers are notified of confirmation and denial #36
This is in the requirements. I'm not sure I understand the difference between successful booking and confirmation. are these the same thing or two different things? Need input from someone who has experience in using the current system to explain.
Options that I can think of
Send an email to the user to notify them of an event. This would require us to a) use an existing email service, b) use goldsmith's email service. I will look but a) is unlikely to be provided free because it could get easily used to send out scam emails, b) is unlikely because using the goldsmiths server as a email relay is a security risk for goldsmiths.
Use another platform that has a free open API for notifications/DMs, teams, x?
Just put the notifications on the login success page... not really notifications
On the bookings list - have some way of ordering by recently approved bookings, and recording when the user last logged in, and changing the colour of those bookings in the list so the user can see which have changed since they last logged in.
This is in the requirements. I'm not sure I understand the difference between successful booking and confirmation. are these the same thing or two different things? Need input from someone who has experience in using the current system to explain.
Options that I can think of