[software] Design Decisions

[Jim Brandt]

Dave Rolsky wrote:

> 
> In Rapport, users _are_ contacts (just like CiviCRM), so a user can be a
> donor, yes. I'm not sure how "in charge" of donations would work. Since
> I'm not planning on building an accounting system, this seems out of
> scope. Rapport would have no concept of who is in charge of some money, it
> can just tell you that you got donations from some contacts towards some
> fund.

Maybe this is obvious, but without accounting integration, how can you 
confirm for a donor that the money was spent on the target they 
intended? Is there a separate account in the accounting software for 
each fund, or is the donation flagged as it passes into the accounting 
package? However, if accounting transactions are aggregated, as I think 
you said before, can you tell a donor for sure that their donation went 
to what they intended?


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Jim Brandt
The Perl Foundation
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