Research integration between GiveWP, Neon, and Stripe

[MirandaEcho]

Research possibilities for integration. Ideally directly between GiveWP and Neon, but also through Stripe if needed. End goal: Possible approaches and estimates for implementing them.

[joshdarby]

What's the actual goal here? For contact info from GiveWP to be pushed to Neon? What's the idea of integrating stripe with it for?

[MirandaEcho]

We want to replace the donation form on the INN page with GiveWP, but it needs to integrate with Neon so that donor info/donations are linked to contacts within Neon. We know Stripe integrates with Neon, but not to what extent or how that would work with GiveWP, or if there's a way to directly connect Give to Neon.

[MirandaEcho]

We need possible solutions with any corresponding limitations, and an estimate for what it would take to implement those.

[joshdarby]

@MirandaEcho So, it looks like we can't directly connect GiveWP with Neon, but what we can do is create a Zapier account to connect the two.

Zapier looks like it will let us trigger an event when any of these things occur with Give:

• New donation
• Updated donor
• New donor
• Subscription completed
• Refunded donation
• Abandoned donation
• Pending donation
• Failed donation
• Revoked donation
• Deleted donation

Once any of those occur with Give, we can trigger an event in Zapier to do any of these events in Neon:

• Create individual account
• Create donation
• Create activitiy
• Create organization account
• Link individual account to organization
• Update individual account
• Update organization account

I think the ideal setup for this would be when a new donation is made through Give, trigger the create a donation or create individual account event in Neon

[joshdarby]

We need possible solutions with any corresponding limitations, and an estimate for what it would take to implement those.

@MirandaEcho Based on the comment above, I'm not sure what limitations we'll run into with the Zapier method until I can see actual defined requirements for this.

I'd think we could get it done in less than 2 hours using the Zapier method above, but I'd say 4 just to be safe so we can include testing and padding for any weirdness we run into.

[kaylima]

@joshdarby since there isn't a direct connection and we'll likely be using Zapier, are there any benefits/drawbacks to connecting via Stripe w/ Zapier instead of Give?

[joshdarby]

since there isn't a direct connection and we'll likely be using Zapier, are there any benefits/drawbacks to connecting via Stripe w/ Zapier instead of Give?

@kaylima I don't think it's necessary to connect Stripe with Zapier unless there's something that we want from Stripe's data to go into Neon that we can't get from Give.

[kaylima]

@MirandaEcho can you check with Cynthia to see if we already have a Zapier zap set up for Stripe <> NEON for other things? If so, we can piggyback on that for donation data. If not, we recommend setting up the one Josh mentioned above for GiveWP <> NEON.

Estimate from Josh:

I'd think we could get it done in less than 2 hours using the Zapier method above, but I'd say 4 just to be safe so we can include testing and padding for any weirdness we run into.