[sudo-discuss] [CCLmembers] looking for alternative to sudo humans for membership management

[Adam]

I have used cozy.co for managing rentals in the past, but if you can look
past all the rental-property jargon it's actually really nice for
processing arbitrary monthly payments.


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On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was actually thinking about this problem last week and did some
> research...
> * Tendenci <https://www.tendenci.com/> - Free & open source, actively
> maintained <https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci>, runs on python
> <https://tendenci.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/installation.html#required-dependencies>
> and has additional features like event management, newsletters, and photo
> galleries.
> * Servicebot <https://servicebot.io/> - Just does subscriptions, also
> free & open source (or you can pay for them to host it), runs on nodejs
> (the clear popular favorite of sudoers), actively maintained
> <https://github.com/service-bot/servicebot>
> * Killbill <http://killbill.io/> - FOSS, actively maintained
> <https://github.com/killbill/killbill>, however runs on java and mysql
>
> I might play around with a local instance of Tendenci as I'm curious about
> it generally. Mebbe someone with nodejs foo could try out Servicebot?
>
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> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 1:42 PM, Seth Columbia <columbiasw1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Looking at alternatives we quickly run into the question. What's a
>> reasonable amount to pay for this service? And what do we value. It seems
>> like a cloud based service is potentially best in terms of convenience.
>>
>> I get the sense a free alternative is preferred but it would have to be
>> convenient. It would seem we have payed a lot of money for our current free
>> services when we add up profit not made due toacking features and function
>> so.
>>
>> Is there any budget? It seems that ~50 a month opens us up to a pretty
>> wide spread of decent programs.
>>
>> There are free alternatives however.
>>
>> It appears that every option has some learning curve so I'm trying to
>> keep long term vision alive alongside current restraints.
>>
>> Just checking in,
>>
>> Seth
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 8:38 PM Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> It might be time to look for alternatives to the sudo-humans software
>>> that both CCL and sudo room depend on for signing up and tracking members.
>>> Sudo-humans <https://github.com/sudoroom/sudo-humans> is still missing
>>> some very basic must-have features (like notifying anyone that someone's
>>> credit card is bouncing, or that a new member signed up!), and  the code
>>> seems fairly unmaintainable now that the initial author has left...
>>>
>>> I've seen both CiviCRM <https://civicrm.org/>and Odoo
>>> <https://github.com/odoo/odoo> suggested as well-developed and
>>> well-maintained Open Source solutions. Several of the hackerspaces in the
>>> Nation of Makers network seemed to be switching towards Odoo, for example.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have experience with CiviCRM, or Oboo, or want to help us
>>> explore our best options? Please pitch in, and help us decide! It would be
>>> great if CCL and Sudo could move together to a new platform.
>>>
>>> Here's some resources that may be useful:
>>>
>>> Nation of Makers: Software Needs Assessment
>>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O1-3JMWx6Pny9rIGzmIAbhF2YJiVL94ppaUOMWBgNhA/edit?usp=sharing> -
>>> mentions CiviCRM, Odoo, Cobot, SeltzerCRM, sudo humans, and more
>>>
>>> Infrastructure and Operations Value Matrix
>>> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K2kZ2usa2HVeL3TwfenGpNCkskGR3kTKArPYpfg8jyw/edit?usp=sharing> -
>>> compares features across various Odoo plugins, CiciCRM, and a few more
>>>
>>>
>>> Patrik
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