In light of the discussions that have been going on about "paying" for WAM; I was wondering if something like a gift (card) would be possible to implement.
Basically, one user could essentially go through an Epoch checkout like usual and the money would be billed to UMD for $x.xx. The person who pays it would get a receipt like usual. Then they could determine a user here for the credit to go to. The recipient user could then use $x.xx towards any purchase on the site.
I know there's a lot of people here that can't necessarily afford to spend much, but I think it would be a neat idea to be able to randomly gift a user (anonymously or not). Sort of like a "pie it forward".
I know this could be a tremendous amount of work, and possibly not even possible because of the rules of an outside biller, but at least worth the time to write, and hopefully for you to review.
I like the idea of enabling people to do something nice like that. I had thought about it a while ago, and decided if I did it, I'd use UMD's credits system. You can buy credits as they are basically worth a penny, and I'd just have to convert the checkout to accept them, then let users transfer credits amongst themselves. Probably before I do anything like that though, I'd enable the Tip Jar system that's nearly done but not quite finished. But that would require you actually having video content up. Backburner yo!