Ongoing personal project

[3fingers]

Hello all!

My name is Lorenzo, I'm from Italy, and this is my first post here.

I want to thank all the members of this clever community for the fervent partecipation and for the knowledge you guys are spreading to other people like me.

Everything here feels clear and understandable, that's why I've decided to evolve my (poor at the moment) experience in the php language.

You guys are motivating me

I'm trying to achieve the whole knowledge to start a project that is going to be a site with payment membership, with (hopefully) thousands of users, each one or them with its own personal page, containing photos/videos and informations.

Since I'm not in hurry to build everything in seconds, I'm studying PW API's and testing what I'm learning day by day,with satisfaction

In the meanwhile I'm trying to clear my mind toward a payment system that can accomplish "cash to credit conversion" (ala Istockphoto or other image banks), where people can pay a predefined amount of cash and the system translates them to virtual credits to be used.

Does anybody have some further informations about this topic?

Sorry for my lack of english guys, hope you get the point

Lorenzo

[diogo]

Welcome to the forum Lorenzo. Good that you are motivated!

About the credits system. I don't know how they do it usually, but to me the process seems very simple, and not different than any other sell. The user chooses the amount of credits -> the system calculates the price -> the user pays -> the system receives the payment confirmation and stores the credits in the user's account.

Now you just have to choose the payment.

[3fingers]

Thanks for the answer Diogo

Following your idea of the process:

- The user chooses the amount of credits  // credits could be treated as "products", which one has a different price ( e.g. 100 credits = 100 Euros ).

- System calculates the price // Let's assume I've decided to use Lemonstand of Shopify for this.

- The user pays // Have to figure out how to implement the payment gateway of my bank and how to let it communicate with the system above.

- Now the user (buyer_01) has 100 Euro to spend into my site, he buys from another user (seller_01) a content for 30 credits.

- buyer_01 now got 70 credits.

- After a pre-defined period of time seller_01 recieves a % of the credits he sold, the other % remained it's my profit.

I won't go further in this until I can understand if the logic behind it can be accomplished by a third-party solution, since to me it's a half-way through an e-commerce site and a paid membership platform.

I must investigate for sure.