[freeside-devel] RE: [freeside] Freeside draft checks scheme changes

[Jeff Foster]

From: ivan [mailto:ivan at 420.am]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 11:07 AM

> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 10:45:36AM -0600, Jeff Foster wrote:
> > 
> > From: ivan [mailto:ivan at 420.am]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 10:37 AM
> > 
> > > Use the `payinfo' field for the routing number and account number, or
> > > convince me why that's not appropriate.
> > 
> > Thought of that and started that way first. I would join the
> > routing number and account number with a ':' separater. But I 
> > didn't want to make too much work for myself and thought that
> > just adding the new fields would be easier.
> 
> Schema changes are a pain and I probably tend toward minimizing them when
> possible.  I don't think I'm convinced that it's any significant extra
> work to just put them in the payinfo field; it's not called "cardnumber"
> for a reason.
>

Agreed. However the payinfo is only 16 characters and this isn't big enough,
the routing number is 9 digits by its self. The paydate and payname fields
could be re-used, if you don't mind column names that don't quite fit the
actual data. 

> 
> > > I could maybe see adding the `checknum' field.  Tell me more about how
> > > it's supposed to work; does the customer give you a check number in
some
> > > starting range and you incremement it by one each time or what?
> > 
> > Yes that is correct. When the billing is done the current check
> > number is sent to the billing program, the value is incremented,
> > and the cust_main entry is updated.
> 
> Okay.  How about an integer instead of a varchar?

Good idea, if the field is added.

Jeff Foster
jfoste at woodward.com


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