Running Payday

Currently, our payday process is ran manually to ensure each week the automated process is working correctly. In the future (after Glimesh/glimesh.tv#618 is resolved), we should be able to run the process automatically.

The easiest way to run Payday is just to IEx into a web node, and run Glimesh.PaymentProviders.StripeProvider.payout(). However we don’t run that ever, because we want to manually review the transfers that are scheduled for the week.

The Transfers.prepare_payouts/0 function will return a list of TransferRequests that you can then use to commit the payout. The function does not preform any modifications, it just prepares the transfers for later.

transfers = Glimesh.PaymentProviders.StripeProvider.Transfers.prepare_payouts()

After this you can run a couple of commands to verify the outputs. Please note the amounts are in cents.

# Check the payout amount
Enum.sum(Enum.map(transfers, fn x -> x.transfer.amount end))

# Check the withholding amount
Enum.sum(Enum.map(transfers, fn x -> x.transfer.metadata.total_withholding_amount end))

# Check the number of transfers
length(transfers)

After you have verified the amounts with their respective Stripe or DB entries, you can commit the transfer.

results = Glimesh.PaymentProviders.StripeProvider.Transfers.commit_payouts(transfers)

After this runs, it’ll give you a list of {:ok, stripe_transfer} or {:error, some_error}. Any errors will also be printed to the error logger for easy visibility.