Write a payment provider plugin for pretix to accept ETH

[bmann]

From discussions at EthMagicians we're going to be using pretix to run registration for Council of Paris 2019.

For now, we're going to use the fully hosted version and use their manual payment system to instruct people to donate to the EthMagicians wallet --> https://donations.ethereum-magicians.org.

For future events, it would be great to run our own instance -- e.g. tickets.ethereumevents.global -- that has an ETH payment provider plugin installed. There will be a separate issue for doing the initial install and some maintenance.

pretix is written in Django and has good instructions on how to write a payment provider. The Bitpay payment provider plugin may prove helpful to refer to.

The initial scope will be:

• support ETH
• support DAI new
• display a configured event wallet address
• watch for an incoming payment linked to the order
• communicate back the successful transaction to indicate that the order is paid

Aside from building the feature, the bounty builder will be responsible for

• creating a Github repo
• releasing the code under Apache 2.0

Future feature requests and additional bounties will be listed in the new repo for this payment provider plugin. Feel free to use this thread to brainstorm future features (e.g. DAI and arbitrary ERC20 token support, NFT "tickets", etc.).

Update

The MakerDAO team have stepped up with a 500DAI bounty, to include DAI in the initial release.

[bmann]

Here's a link to our Discord pretix channel if you'd like to chat live https://discord.gg/S7vVpfn

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[swapnildey94]

Interested - Familiar with Python and integrating Payment gateways related to blockchain. Have integrated similar platforms in other projects.

Unable to apply through gitcoin.

[bmann]

@techswappy oh, what’s the issue with Gitcoin? Let me know what problems you’re having.

[swapnildey94]

@bmann I think they have a restriction on how many issues you can apply to (i used up my 3 issues) before I stumbled upon this work.

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Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

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Work has been started.

These users each claimed they can complete the work by 9 months, 2 weeks from now.
Please review their action plans below:

1) uivlis has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

Let me try this one out, even though I can't guarantee NFT tickets right from the start.

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2) vic-en has been approved to start work.

I can pretty much get this done in 2 weeks max. Firstly, I'll clone the pretix repo and install on my server to ensure I have a working installation. I'll then proceed to develop an API compatible with ETH using the official doc and bitpay code as reference. After the code is done, I'll test on initial server and test on another server to ensure I don't miss anything out.

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💰 A crowdfund contribution worth 500.00000 DAI (500.0 USD @ $1.0/DAI) has been attached to this funded issue from @nanexcool.💰

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[uivlis]

Hi @bmann! Just to know, is the bounty still active? If it is, I kindly suggest you pick somebody to work on it. The application to work on this bounty is stopping me from completing other bounties since one can only work on 3 at most.

[nanexcool]

Hey, I just want to add that the 500 Dai bounty that I added is to also include Dai as a payment method, in addition to ETH. I don't think this is reflected yet in the description.

[bmann]

@uivlis sorry about that, getting used to how Gitcoin works. It is still active. There are some people who are already working on code outside of Gitcoin, so I'm unclear how to handle this. I may need to make this an "open" bounty and go from there.

[bmann]

@vic-en has provided me with a demo link through chat, see https://github.com/vic-en/pretix-eth-payment-plugin for further development

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