Upcoming Events
NYC CiviCRM Meetup - September 7th
September 7th, 2010
This next NYC meetup will feature a case study or 2, a look at what's new in (more...)
Configuring, Customizing and Extending CiviCRM - New York
September 16th, 2010
This comprehensive two-day hands on training course is targeted at (more...)
CiviCRM User and Administrator Training - New York
September 16th, 2010
A comprehensive two day hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)
CiviCRM Code and Test Sprint - New York
September 18th, 2010
This code and test sprint is targeted at experienced developers who want to (more...)
CiviCRM Toronto Meetup
September 21st, 2010
Come meet others from the Toronto Area who are interested in, using or (more...)
CiviCRM Philly Meetup – September 2010
September 23rd, 2010
Come meet others from the Philadelphia Area who are interested in, using or (more...)
CiviCRM Seminar - Dublin
September 28th, 2010
NfP Services are hosting a free seminar at The IBOA, Stephen St Upper, Dublin 8 (more...)
London developer and implementer training
September 30th, 2010
This comprehensive two-day hands on training course is targeted at implementers, (more...)
London user and administrator training
September 30th, 2010
A comprehensive two day hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)
Berlin user and administrator training
October 6th, 2010
A comprehensive one day hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)
Berlin developer and implementer training
October 7th, 2010
This comprehensive one-day hands on training course is targeted at implementers, (more...)
Benelux meetup in Brussels: Connect, communicate and activate your supporters and constituents
October 11th, 2010
Come meet others who are interested in, using or developing for CiviCRM. For (more...)
CiviCRM Toronto Meetup
October 19th, 2010
Come meet others from the Toronto Area who are interested in, using or (more...)
CiviCRM Toronto Meetup
November 16th, 2010
Come meet others from the Toronto Area who are interested in, using or (more...)
CiviCRM Components
Tools for engaging your supporters...
Developer perspective of Google Checkout vs Paypal Pro/Standards
- Not Just a Contact Database
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These optional components give you more power to connect and engage your supporters.
civiCONTRIBUTE
Online fundraising and donor management.
civiEVENT
Online event registration and participant tracking.
civiMEMBER
Online signup and membership management.
civiMAIL
Personalized email blasts and newsletters.
civiREPORT
Report generation and template management.
We've integrated support for Google Checkout in CiviCRM v1.7. This was primarily on the initiative and lead of Deepak, part of our awesome India developement team. This also allowed us to compare the ease of use and integration between the two transaction providers. Here are some things we found:
- PayPal has a much richer and more well thought out SDK. They do quite a few things right from a developers perspective, primarily allowing the code to set various defaults (like the return url)
- Have the Google Checkout folks tried to use the sandbox with the awful "sandbox" background that they use. Makes it fairly hard to read and navigate the site
- PayPal is a lot more consistent and symmetrical with the urls and images between the sandbox and development environment. Google Checkout is not symmetrical
- PayPal gives u a much better unified testing environment. You have multiple test accounts under one large sandbox account. With Google you have to create multiple google accounts to test
Overall, PayPal was better and easier to integrate than Google. Hopefully Google will improve and add more features including recurring transactions etc over the next few months
Comments
Several Screens for an Event?
I like all the things you can do with an event, but is it necessary to go through so many screens both to create one AND to register for one?
Even in cases where there is no fee?
I think the model of one-page event creation like at Upcoming.org, Craigslist.org, Democrats.org, My.BarackObama.com, etc. -- and ONE-Button registration (!!!) is more likely to attract participants.
Event Complexity ...
I dont think having several screens to "create" an event is a big issue. Our model was more of an org having a few events in a month/year rather than lots of events.
I think having a simple one page event register screen for free events is something useful and would increase signup rate etc. A contribution to implement this would be great and much appreciated :) (paid events are a different matter since they involve confirmation with the payment processor etc)