Autoadding donations

[furilo]

@jorgesancha says: One thing that would be great (if it were possible - we'd need to check with each organization) would be for people to automatically add their donations; if some of these organizations had a feed of donors or a way to integrate, we could automatically fill in the donations for the users after they give us permission to do so. For instance, I've donated to Wikipedia a few times in my life, but I don't remember all of them or when I did them. Not sure how feasible this is, but given that this project aims to bring donations out in the open and encourage people to donate more, I'm sure that the organizations would be open to the idea if they like Trackdons. Once we have an accessible version, I think it would be worth emailing people like Pledgie, Wikipedia, Kickstarter, etc... to see whether this would be possible.

[furilo]

Totally. Automating as much as possible will be key. I had some initial ideas here:

• Email forwarding: let users forward their donation receipts to a TrackDons email and we take care of parsing it and creating the donation.
• API: enabling organizations to auto-add donations using an API (more or less what you were saying)

This takes us to the topics of "business development" + "communication"... I'm sure we may come up with lots of ideas, but not sure when is the right moment to start talking to organizations...