Major Additions - AWCoding- Donation System

AWCoding- Donation System LITE
Version 0.2.1

Software Provided and coded by Adam Ellis (AWJunkies) of AWCoding

Release version: 0.1.0
Release Date: 1st March 2008

Special Thanks:
Philip Gabbert
Sinisterpain
I couldn't have done it without you, Thank you!
Adam Ellis (AWJunkies)

What Donation System LITE Is:
Donation System LITE process', monitors, records donation payments. Donation System LITE will allow site Admins full control over their donations, with the ability to track monthly or yearly goals and perform multiple searches from your admincp.

Donation System LITE is a complete system that controls donations and how they are received via backend interfacing between your vBulletin server and a payment method gateway server. The beauty of this marriage of servers is quite simply automation of the payment process as well as security of the transactions for both you, the administrator, and your users. With the Donation System LITE installed on your forums, you will be able to bring in that much needed income to not only keep your forums alive, but also to help defer costs of doing so to the users of your site without having to bug everyone and beg for money.

This seamless integration of any payment method as your backend payment processor not only provides your user with a well known and safe payment processors, but you are saved the hassle of opening a merchant account with your banking institution as well as saves you time in the process as it takes only a few short minutes to sign up with current allowed methods of payment if you are not already an account holder there. It also keeps your users and you the site owner informed on the status of payments with its notification system built in.

PayPal is only method for LITE

Easy to Transfer Payments From:
Cyb - PayPal Donate
PayPal Donations For vBulletin 3.5.0
This software in no way interferes in the other mods above so you can keep them installed and active while testing and merging over.

Donation System LITE Features:

Turn Donation System LITE ON or OFF
Select what user groups are "NOT" able to use system
Multiple Income Format (Selectable)
Can use any currency available for the payment methods (Paypal Only in LITE)
U.S. Dollars, Canadian Dollars, Euros, Pounds Sterling, Yen, Australian Dollars, New Zealand Dollars, Swiss Francs, Hong Kong Dollars, Singapore Dollars, Swedish Kronor, Danish Kroner, Polish Zloty, Norwegian Kroner, Hungarian Forint, Czech Koruna
Multiple Currency Symbol
Can use a currency symbol that matches your currency
$, ?, ?, ?, CHF, HK$, kr, zl, Ft, Kc
Choose to Load payment method in new window or stay in current window to make a payment
Paypal Support
Able to support payments through Paypal
Paypal Sandbox Test Support
Able to test the Paypal Payments before going live
Can add Custom Paypal Header Image while making a payment
Customizable papal verify or free section to use for whatever you want

Notification System
Method to send notifications
PM Only
Messages
New Payment, Thanks

Search / Edit / Transfer Payments
Quick Search (All payments, All Unconfirmed payments)
Can view and edit a payment from search results
Can confirm a payment from search results
Can delete a payment from search results
Manual Add a Donation
Manually add a donation by just selecting userid or username then amount, fee, and date
Transfer Payments from another software or other versions

Donation Bar
Auto Insert Bar below Navbar/Header
Selectable to yes or no if no add the bar where you want
Donation Bar float not attached option
Donation Bar can be attached to a table below it or as a separate table all together
Donation Bar style Standard Only
Show Donation Bar on multiple pages including CMPS pages
Can select which pages to show the donation bar on
Selectable User groups able to view Donation Bar
Selectable Goal Cycle Time (Month, Year)
Selectable Goal Amount
Option to add vbulletin Subscription Totals to Goal Amount (VBulletin 3.6+)
Customizable Donation Bar Link (Can be default text link or custom)
Customizable Donation Bar Thank you Message
Customizable Donation Goal Purpose or what the donations are going towards

Donation
Auto Insert Link to donate in navbar/header
This will create a drop down menu for donating, donation list, donation stats, donation user stats if selected auto insert within there control panel sections
Selectable Allowed Donation Amounts (Suggested, Custom & Suggested, Custom)
Create own Suggested Donate Amounts
Customizable Type of benefits from donating section
Customizable papal verify or free section to use for whatever you want
Donation Group Change
Change donator to group Donator/VIP (You create and choose the group)
Select User groups NOT affected by group change

Donation List
Auto Insert Link to Donation List in navbar/header (Donation System Drop down list)
Select User groups able to view the donation list

AND so much more...

Version History:
Release version: 0.1.0
Release Date: 1st March 2008
Initial Release No Updates

Release version: 0.1.1
Release Date: 2nd March 2008
PRO FEATURE ADDED: You can now use any currency and any currency symbol that fits your needs for payment processing
MINOR FIX: Fixed issue with redirect link to paypal not working with people who had paypal verify blank or donation benefits blank (meaning not using one or the other or both).

Release version: 0.1.2
Release Date: 2nd March 2008
MAJOR FIX: The javascript function for the search/edit (Edit/Confirm/Delete/GO) was not being generated on certain peoples servers but all fixed now
MINOR FIX: Removed a file that was not supposed to be in the ZIP (file name: jsProgessBarHandler.js) Please delete this file as it may cause unexpected results
ADDED: Version check support and link back to Vbulletin product page

Release version: 0.1.3
Release Date: 6th March 2008
MAJOR FIX: On certain servers payment recording was not working. This was due to interferences with current MODs installed that attached them self to global scope without proper path procedure
MINOR FIX: Fixed the issue when you turned off auto insert for the navbar drop down and then were unable to use the variables set to use manually

Release version: 0.1.4
Release Date: 11th March 2008
PRO FEATURE ADDED: You now can use any language you would like
ADDED: The Avatars in Donation List now link back to the users Vbulletin Profile
MAJOR FIX: Template issues with Internet Explorer Browsers
MINOR FIX: Made all '' or "" or blank variables to null for update/insert into payments table to prevent some issues that some servers where having

Release version: 0.2.0
Release Date: 27th April 2008
PRO FEATURE ADDED: You now can see where the user is at in Online Location Details and Member Profile
PRO FEATURE ADDED: The language support system now uses Vbulletin internal system for easier changing of language or loading of multiple languages
CHANGED: Payment System LITE is now merged with Donation System LITE to make things a LOT easier for downloading and upgrading
CHANGED: Entire code to speed it up and slim it down
CHANGED: Donation Bar Style
REMOVED: All old files and restructured them and renamed them for new V2 system
NOTICE: There is seriously to much to post on what was changed this is a Major Update and all should switch to latest V2

Release version: 0.2.1
Release Date: 2nd May 2008
PRO FEATURE ADDED: You now can select whether to change/add a users usergroup/membership and whether to send a thank you for donation message when manually adding a donation
PRO FEATURE ADDED: You now can select donation bar goal to monthly OR yearly
CHANGED: Global software value from DS to DSL to prevent ANY conflict with PRO software
FIXED: Issue with manually confirming payments it was not changing usergroup or sending out thanks notifications
FIXED: Issue with previous V1 users upgrading to V2. I accidentally had the same group # in the XML for admin NAV which was causing the merger of V1 and V2 admincp dropdown
FIXED: Issue with transfer of donations I accidentally had PRO ds condition and not dsl LITE condition for transfer
FIXED: Missing a function within functions file
FIXED: Issue with search results text was not showing from correct numbers
FIXED: CMPS auto global variable add at install
FIXED: Missing phrases (example: minimum donation amount warning)

System Requirements
VBulletin 3.5.x+
PHP 4.3.x+

Final words
Please vote for this software to be MOD of the month by clicking the top right button. Thank you so much for downloading and supporting this software. I would like to HIGHLY recommend upgrading to PRO edition to have over 2x the features.

Some of those features include:
* User Stats page for users to monitor and keep track of their own donations and search through a monthly view
* Stats Page to monitor and keep track of all donations to better serve your community
* Able to use the enhanced donation bar system and even custom make your own
* Have a reminder to donate notification sent out on a set time period of your choice and which usergroup to recieve it
* Allow users to not disclose donation amount or donate anonymously
* Extra payment methods like google checkout
* Instant Payment Notification (IPN) System for Paypal
* Recurring Payment System
* Advanced search for payments system

And so much more to see the side by side comparison go HERE

Much more to come in the future stay tuned for: Product System, Goal System, Awards System, and Subscription System

I sincerely hope that you enjoy this software, Please feel free to send feedback to
aellis@allwheeltech.com
Thank you!
Adam Ellis (AWJunkies)

Copyright
Donation System ?2008 by Adam Ellis (AWJunkies)

[Vinyljunky]

I was using the Cyb Paypal system but I now use AWCoding.

The AwCoding mod installed easily and without any errors. It looks better and is more configurable. The proof is that my donations have gone up :up:

I did post a couple of questions on the AWCoding site which where answered very quickly. In fact the support is excellent and polite.

Great work guys

[PoetJA-1975]

Looks nice...
Thanx for the sharing.

JAcquii.

[Jasem]

Thank you , good work

[dancue]

Originally Posted by Vinyljunky

I was using the Cyb Paypal system but I now use AWCoding.

The AwCoding mod installed easily and without any errors. It looks better and is more configurable. The proof is that my donations have gone up :up:

I did post a couple of questions on the AWCoding site which where answered very quickly. In fact the support is excellent and polite.

Great work guys

You said it all. This is the best donation system around. Very easy to use, install, upgrade and a very important part of my forum.

[AWJunkies]

Thanks for the support guys.

[AWJunkies]

Originally Posted by kaoticgaming

There's image number 2.

On the group change, I assumed "add"meant it would "add" the status to additional usergroups, which was my goal. This would enable all members to gain donator/VIP status, even specific ones that would rather use thier other title, such as role specific members who may want to donate and gain donation benifits of the new usergroup, but retain and display thier old status.

Please delete out 'index,forum' and see if the donation bar shows on CMPS pages it SHOULD. Now if it does that means you need to put 'index,forum,adv_index'. This will add donation bar to the CMPS pages.

About the usergroup and membership groups. They are totally different so I need you to restate what you mean. MOVE will move the users current usergroup to the new usergroup you specify. Now it seems you do NOT want that but to ADD to their membership group. If this is correct let me know.

Also found issue on CMPS variables. I accidentally put PRO variables and not LITE variables to be added. So the fix for this is:
Go to AdminCP>CMPS>Default Settings>Main Options>Global Variables> Now add 'l' at the end of the 'ds' to specify dsl which is donation system lite.

The variables should be:
DS
dsl_link_menu
dsl_link_menu_options
dsl_bar

You may have more variables but make sure to change only these 4 and click save and all will be good. I have already updates this on the new ZIP. But those who already have it installed need to manually change variables. Sorry for the error.

[lasto]

really good hack this m8 hence why i paid for the pro version

[AWJunkies]

Originally Posted by lasto

really good hack this m8 hence why i paid for the pro version

Thanks for the support Lasto

[kaoticgaming]

CMPS problem = solved.

Okay. What I was trying to accomplish was rather complex. We have lots of role-specific groups though they are not quite leadership roles such as Moderators etc. Users would like those roles continuosly displayed, but if they donate, they would like the benefits that come with.

I'm not sure exactly how membership groups work as my vb experience is limited, but my overall goal was to have the VIP status added to additional usergroups for the VIP while retaining the VIP's primary usergroup. Did that make sense? I figured "ADD" should be the function I use.

Thanks for all your time, A++++ for support.

[AWJunkies]

there is no additional user groups it is membership groups. SO yes you want it set to ADD BUT BUT you want name changed to NO. So it wont change their title and keep whatever their user group is or user group title is. This will add them to a membership group. SO if the issue is it is NOT adding to membership group at all let me know.

User group and membership group is totally separate field in the user table. So please see who was supposed to be added to membership and look in that are. In a users details in admincp it will be the info check boxes right below user group.