Ubercart as a donation system + Moneris as a Payment Gateway
Hopefully this blog entry will help a few people overcome some of the hurdles in setting up a donations system. We are a drupal shop so all the following is for drupal 6.
In this case the client simply wanted to have a way to collect donations from supporters of their political campaign. The only real constraint was that it needed to integrate with the Moneris payment gateway system. I was looking at creating a custom donation system and integration to Moneris, but in the end opted to use Ubercart. Ubercart is an awesome beast of a Shopping cart system that has many great features and useful contribs, 90% of which I did not need to take advantage of. However, Ubercart, in an extremely stripped down form, looked like it could offer everything I needed in terms of accepting and tracking donations. There was also an existing UC Moneris contrib module that looked pretty simple.
