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Plugin Interface for Payment

1 Requirements

At the time being, the payment services like PayPal or BMF are an integrated part of the payment code in ILIAS. This has several disadvantages:

• Each new service has to be implemented as a core function and can only be done for the next major release.
• All implemented services are offered to every installtion even if they cannot use it due to specific restrictions, see BMF.
• Institutions that want to implement a quick connection of ILIAS to their payment service can only do that by patching ILIAS.

It would make much more sense to remove the current payment services and to implement a generic interface that several payment services can use.

2 Status

• Funding: Required
• Maintainer: Michael Jansen
• Implementation of the feature is done by (company, developer)
• Contract settled: (fill in "Yes" if a contract is already settled, otherwise "No" )
• Tested by / status: (name, e-mail), (status information set after implementation)

3 Additional Information

Contact the following persons if you want to know more about this feature, its implementation or funding:

• Information about concept: (Michael Jansen, mjansen (at) databay.de)
• Information about funding: (name, e-mail)
• Information about implementation: (name, e-mail)

4 Discussion

JF 20 Jan 2014: We highly appreciat this feature and schedule it for 4.5. Paypal and BMF should be externalised to a plugin then.

PP 29 Jul 2016: What is the status of this feature? I see that the shop functionality willl disappear in ILIAS 5.2 but I don't see any news about this plugin being implemented in 5.2. 

5 Implementation

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