[HCoop-Discuss] negative balances reminder and dues

[Adam Chlipala]

Lauren McNees wrote:
> I just got another "Your NEGATIVE HCoop balance" e-mail, again without
> having received a your-account-is-approaching-negative warning that I
> understand I am supposed to receive first, and I'm wondering if there is a
> problem with the reminder system, or if the notices only go out once a
> month and my balance just happened to go into the negative two months in a
> row, therefore not giving the system an opportunity to send an
> approaching-negative reminder.
>   

I found and fixed a bug in the reminder script that I should have seen 
earlier; sorry.  I just reran it, so everyone who is close to going 
negative should now have an e-mail notice.

There was also the change to flat dues, which lead to charges coming 
closer together than usual in the transition month, but the bug was 
mostly to blame.

> I also had a hard time figuring out why my balance went negative two
> months in a row because my understanding was that dues would be
> approximately $5/month and I paid $20 one month ago. But I calculated the
> charges in my portal page against what I'd paid and came up with nearly
> (but not quite) the same balance that the e-mail gave me. My request is
> this: On the portal page (https://members.hcoop.net/portal/money), I am
> wondering if with each transaction on the list it can also show the total
> balance left in that person's account after each transaction. Kind of like
> in a paypal account.
>   

That's on my to-do list now on Bugzilla.  Hopefully I'll implement it in 
the next few weeks.

> I am also wondering if the transaction called "Dues" for $5 on the last
> day of each month will be replacing the transactions called "Month Peer 1"
> and "Month InterServer" or if this is somehow a different charge.
>   

Yes.  I thought I explained this in a recent e-mail to hcoop-announce.  
Can you suggest any text to be placed on the wiki or elsewhere (or 
another announcement) to make it clearer?