Vend integration

[david-mohr]

I've done some research on Vend's API and it looks like integration should be pretty straight forward.

Stage 1

• https://docs.vendhq.com/reference/introduction/authorization
• https://docs.vendhq.com/reference/2/spec/customers/createcustomer

Existing customers
Vend has as unique ID per customer. We need to log this ID into the member database. A one-time script will need to be prepared to match all existing members to "customer" records in Vend. More importantly, it will need to identify any members that don't have matching customer records (and vice-versa). Should be pretty straight forward

• https://docs.vendhq.com/reference/2/spec/customers/listcustomers

Stage 2
Looks like we can use a non-expiring Promotion and a Customer Group to automatically apply volunteer discounts. We can use daily jobs to add/remove customers from the Customer Group as they do volunteer hours.

• https://support.vendhq.com/hc/en-us/articles/115013196668-Setting-up-Store-Promotions-in-Vend
• https://docs.vendhq.com/tutorials/guides/promotions
• https://docs.vendhq.com/reference/2/spec/customer-groups/addcustomerstocustomergroup

Stage 3
Webhooks - might be an option to keep Vend and the member database in sync, but that's a future feature.

[david-mohr]

Turns out there's already some promotions set up! @jamgb have you ever heard about using "promo codes" to apply the Working Member discount?

[jamgb]

I've never done it that way, but I haven't worked since lockdown -- it may have started then. If that was set up a while ago though, I think it must have fallen out of use as I was always just shown to put the discount in manually.

[bulany]

Hi Dave and James, are we meeting on Zoom tonight? Jono

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