--Originally published at Hermes's Blog
This week I’m not sure if we will be able to work in the project because it’s the Tarver Vertical (buuuh), but if we do, the most important thing to do right now (in the api) is to be able to split the bill of a pool. I think the best way to handle this is, when the pool owner says that the bill should be splitted evenly, take all current users and divide the bill evenly, the problem is that not all users have joined by this time, all I can do is that when a new user confirms the invitation the API will update all the relations to users in the pool to fit the new bill split. When the ower sets the bill split to custom it I think it should be able to set the amount that invited users should pay, that will require me to add a new relation from the pool to users where invited users have a special relation with the label `:invited`, just so it can tell the user how much is he spected to pay and then he can accept or reject this invitation.
The TODO list is as follows:
- Pool owners need to split the bill, they should be given the options of spliting it evenly or with custom amounts (do we need to make sure that the total of all the custom amounts sum up to the total of the bill?).
- Pool needs to specify who you should pay to, how much money do they owe or who payed more than necessary.
- The only payment method available right now is cash, the pool owner should be the only one able to change the pool and relation to the pool properties.
- Maybe invites should be visible through an interface in the app, I think that the best way to approach this is to create a new relation between the pool node and user node that indicates that he’s been invited. Because otherwise there is no other way to find out who you have invited, the email is send and after that it all depends on the user clicking the link.
- We need a Facebook and Google login (I think this will be done by someone else).
- User profile images are not critical (because we have default profile gravatars) but would be nice to have, we should store them somewhere outside the database, maybe store the path to the file in the node, or use an external service like Amazon S3.