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| Additional Authors | Brian Moore (Unlicensed), San Diego Eva Sorrell, San Bernardino Suzanna Conrad (Unlicensed), Sacramento Cecilia Huang, Pomona Julie Kowalewski-Ward (Unlicensed), SJSU Troy Compton (Unlicensed), SDSU Aleta Asbury, SFSU |
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- Removing Blocks/Holds in PeopleSoft remain manual; fine amount owed not available in PeopleSoft (necessarily) - if using Analytics API export, however, this could be available in PeopleSoft, once a day.
- Need more information about CashNet portal setup (Christian Ward (Sacramento) is researching)
- Info from Christian: Requires CashNet add-on called "Smart Pay" used to build a "Storefront" web application. Sacramento's parking services is using this type of integration with a third party parking tickets application that enables guests and campus users to pay citations through CashNet. We may be able to work with CashNet to create an interface that all campuses could use but would need the CO to help with that. It may be more efficient to straight into CashNet without using the unique account page, but that would be worked out with CashNet. See Information re: Parking Fine Payment @ Sac State
- Need to research any differences in approach for campuses using PayPal (e.g., Pomona) OR whether all CSUs using PayPal could move to CashNet for this integration.
Step-by-step guide
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This is a higher-level overview of required steps
- Build web app that includes the following.
- user authentication/verification (utilize EZproxy, Drupal, Wordpress, or other intermediary application that already has authentication functionality)
- retrieval of user account data via Alma User API (code exists in PHP)
- web form that sends via data to CASHNet eMarket via POST
- User logins using CASHNet's eMarket authentication
- User confirms amount and enters credit card information
- CASHNet sends data via HTTPS to custom processing script
- custom processing script posts to Alma user account (releasing blocks as necessary) and to PeopleSoft general ledger account (not PS user account)
- CASHNet generates emails to payee (user) and to library mailbox (??)
- Alma generates payment confirmation email to patron (??)
Considerations
- How are holds placed on user's PeopleSoft accounts (if at all)?
- If hold is placed on user account, PeopleSoft web interface will need some method of directing user to web app described in step 1 above.
- CASHNet does not need to maintain account balance for user because web app (step 1 above) will pull that data directly from Alma when user logins.
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