#Development
To simplify development, we'll be using https://www.blockfrost.io/ to communicate with the blockchain instead of building our own API layer.
The plugin will be quite simple with two interfaces:
The administrator/merchant to configure their address,
For the user to interact with the website to conduct a transaction.
When an order is made the plugin will monitor for the value of ADA and metadata that will be sent to the address to identify a unique transaction. Once the transaction is validated, the state of the order in WooCommerce will be marked as complete and ready to be fulfilled.
That's it!!!
The plugin can have a large impact with onboarding users. According to the latest WooCommerce stats, there are over 5m+ active WooCommerce installs. The potential to onboard those store owners to Cardano along with their customers is very exciting.
#Documentation
Detailed documentation will be provided to teach users how to register for an API key, configure the plugin with the key and their wallet address and configuring WooCommerce to allow for ADA payments.
I will be providing written and video documentation to take users through the process of installing to receiving their first ADA payments via the website.
#Support
We want the users of the plugin to be able to help and support other users. We plan to build an online support forum that will be open to allow users to submit issues, support requests and have me, other team members or other community members help and support those issues.
#Open Source
PB Web Development is and always will be an open-source embracing company. We grew on the back of popular open-source content management systems such as Joomla and WordPress when proprietary CMS platforms still existed. All of our websites that were built for clients were completely GPL2.0 giving the client full control over their site, code and main channel of business.
Over the years we have built many plugins and extensions for the two content management systems and will continue to do so for Cardano.
All code will be on Github.
Users can submit issues, fork the project of contributing code through a pull request.
The plugin will be licensed under Apache-2.0