Repeat reminder until marked as paid

[flinthamm]

Thank you for this great project and even at this early stage, a great viable alternative to Wallos!

I hope you don't mind and assuming it's accepted can label this appropriately but could this be made to continue sending whatever notification has been setup push, mail, webhook from the notification date reminder until the actual due date? The ability to mark a subscription as "Paid" in an email notification is brilliant and I was hoping this could be used as a flag to stop any further notifications until the next subscription renewal otherwise it will just keep sending them.

Of course, we already have the ability to setup multiple notifications and with a custom schedule (great) but this becomes administratively heavy and would be unnecessary given the above proposal but could still be there for even more flexibility,

On a separate note, webhook support is great but having successfully added one, at the next notification event it appeared to just send a post message with a long token value as a JSON string, no actual event data? The webhook receiver replied to this in the same way it did when it was registered by sending a 200 reply with a { "success": true } response. Should something else be happening to receive the notification event data?

Finally and forgive me if you're already aware but there is a great mature project called "Apprise" on Github (caronc/apprise) and perhaps this could be used either instead of or in addition to webhook in order to easily support a large number of platforms.

Thanks again and hope you keep up your great work :)

[meceware]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. To understand a bit more and design the implementation, you are suggesting that mark any notification settings as repeat mode and repeat the notification until it's mark as paid, even though the payment date is passed.

So it should be, adding a flag as Repeat ⟳ like below and when repeat is clicked, it notifies every day until it's paid. It might be a bit annoying to receive many notifications so maybe limit the max number of notifications.

Let me know if you have a better alternative for the UX.

it appeared to just send a post message with a long token value as a JSON string, no actual event data

That's right, the event data is embedded in the token for security purposes and signed with your SUBSCRIPTION_JWT_SECRET key. Please see the doc for more info on how to decrypt the token.

https://github.com/meceware/wapy.dev/wiki/Webhook-Integration

After decoding on another docker container with python or any other server component, you can also use apprise or any other platform to push the data.

[flinthamm]

Thanks for your response and sorry for delay and missing the code example showing the jwt decode, that's great! I was just thinking built-in apprise support would make it easy to add wide notification support for less tech savvy users, without a lot of work and keeping that complexity outside the project but as you say, this could easily be added by someone and only if required.

As for the Repeat ⟳ option, as always I guess where possible simple is best. On that basis, I think your UX suggestion is great and does not need to be any more complex and can't immediately think of anything better :) It would be nice to have an environment flag or perhaps just the ability to set the default state of this flag in the Settings > Notifications > "Default notifications for your subscription" area.

As for the implementation and assuming your example "When to Notify" was set to "1 week before", I envisaged that for each day when the notification cron runs, it would send the notifications that had been configured for the subscription starting exactly "1 week before". If the repeat flag was set, it would then repeat every day after (no more than once a day) either up until the payment date or until it has been marked paid, whichever is the sooner. If only a single notification is required, the "repeat" flag could simply be ignored.

It would also be great to have a "Test" button at least in the settings but potentially in the subscription page or perhaps just the subscription, under "Advanced" that will enable you to force a notification and test everything is working.

Is it also possible to control when and how often the subscriptions are polled/checked?

[meceware]

Released with v2.0.0.