Megaphone Commons

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Welcome to the Megaphone Technology Consulting commons.

As part of our commitment to transparency and open source principles, we try to make our internal documentation available publicly.  We hope that this assists others who may be starting their own companies, looking for best practices on web development, and more.

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## Technical Documentation

### Sysadmin/Monitoring

[[Icinga2]] Our monitoring platform

[[Backup Setup]]

[[Backup Setup when we don't have root]]

[[Install drush]]

[[Inherited Site Security Review]]

[[Set up a New Website]]

[[Upgrading Docker Applications]]

[[Ansible]]

[[Deploying with Ansible]]

[[How to use a shared SSH config file]]

[[Azure VPS setup notes]]

[[Email Delivery Service]]

[[Deleting Former Client Data]]

[[Cloning a site]]

### CRM

[[Debugging CiviCRM cheatsheet]]

[[CiviCRM Launch Checklist]]

[[CiviCRM for Drupal 8 installation notes]]

[[Migrating D8/CiviCRM to Pantheon]]

[[CiviCRM multisite to single site cookbook]]

[[Troubleshooting PayPal and CiviCRM]]

[[VS Code Configuration for CiviCRM]]

[[CiviCRM multisite]]

[[CiviCRM administrator training]]

[[Stripe setup]]

[[Testing]]

[PRs/MRs on CiviCRM](https://hq.megaphonetech.com/projects/commons/wiki/PRs__MRs_on_CiviCRM)

[[CiviCRM 102 training topics]]

[[### Recurring payment workflow (PayPal)

1. POST request from user to CiviCRM (User submits form)

  CiviCRM creates a pending contribution and recurring contribution record.

  2. POST request from CiviCRM to PayPal (Civi asks PayPal to authorize card).  PayPal responds with success or failure.

CiviCRM responds to user's POST request with a thank-you page (or a PayPal error)

A few minutes later...

3. POST request from PayPal to CiviCRM (informing Civi that recurring contribution was created on PayPal's side)

4. POST request from PayPal to CiviCRM (informing Civi that contribution was successfully charged).

### Recurring payment with interdiction (PayPal)

1. POST request from user to CiviCRM (User submits form)

  CiviCRM creates a pending contribution and recurring contribution record.

  2. POST request from CiviCRM to PayPal (Civi asks PayPal to authorize card).  PayPal responds with success or failure.

CiviCRM responds to user's POST request with a thank-you page (or a PayPal error)

A few minutes later...

3. POST request from PayPal to webhook.site (informing Civi that recurring contribution was created on PayPal's side)

3a. POST request (curl, using webhook.site request) to Civi.

4. POST request from PayPal to CiviCRM (informing Civi that contribution was successfully charged).

### One-time payment (PayPal, Auth.net)

1. POST request from user to CiviCRM (User submits form)

  CiviCRM creates a pending contribution and recurring contribution record.

  2. POST request from CiviCRM to PayPal (Civi asks PayPal to authorize card).  PayPal responds with success or failure.

CiviCRM responds to user's POST request with a thank-you page (or a PayPal error)

### One-time payment (Stripe)

* POST request from user to Stripe (user submits form).  Stripe responds in JavaScript with success/failure. (aka "pre-authorization")

* POST request from user to CiviCRM (triggered by the return of Stripe's request, and including the result of Stripe's request). Civi responds with thank-you page or an error.

### Backdrop

[[Backdrop Configuration Management]]

### Other

[[New Client Questionnaire]]

[[GDPR Compliance]]

[[Migration Documentation]]

[[Your Test Site]]

[[Recording an HAR file]]

[[Productivity Tricks]]

[[Warrant Canary]]

## Administrative Documentation

[[Bookkeeping]]

[[Where to host CiviCRM]]

## Data Migration

[[Exporting DonorPerfect Online for CiviCRM]]

[[Exporting Nationbuilder for CiviCRM]]

[[Exporting Wild Apricot for CiviCRM]]

[[Exporting Raisers Edge for CiviCRM]]

[[Raisers Edge client notes]]

[[Exporting Network for Good for CiviCRM]]