Send points from user to user

I don't think current userpoint module support this. It's an interesting and useful feature I'd like to see. While I am thinking of it, it doesn't seem to be difficult to implement.

It will happen when either:

a) we have free time to implement it,
b) someone submits a working and tested patch, or
c) someone sponsors this development effort.

Name: Points eXchange

[reposted, since it is a similar post]

Value Prop:
Enable users to trade points

Features or Use Cases:
- tip a user for a great posting
- buy/sell user points between users
- sales tax for exchange handling
- gift points to another user
- pay for products or services using points
- collect points into a Group for purchase of a product or service
- access audit trail and transaction id between parties inside an exchange

Issues:
- points inflation (or deflation)
- transfer tax liabilities to user in Terms and Conditions (read you Airline reward points contracts)
- transaction security
- spam points (create bot that creates points) then sell the points into market, resulting in point inflation
- point reserves (already implemented)
- verifiable audit trails
- arbitration (again, inside your Terms and Conditions)

Sample URLs with Points Exchanges
https://www.points.com > "Gives members the opportunity to exchange points, miles or other currencies between loyalty programs."

Project Levels
Basic: Feature allows one user to exchange points with another user. This is a simple transfer. A transaction event at a minimum would be nice. Use a forum topic to allow users to negotiate among themselves. Website stays out of the way.

Simple Form: CCK with fields to post an offer to buy/sell. Include a single view that lists offers/bids. OR simple Classified advertisement, which already has a feature to allow for automatic expiration.

Exchange: Website acts as intermediary, providing a bid/offer framework. Add point 'tips' so one user can acknowledge another user for a post. Transaction audit part of process.

Secure Exchange: Secure transfer, audit records, transfer fees, arbitration process, may act as intermediary for transfer for funds (real money).

Subscribing. I'd love to see this!

Here are some comments:

- Call it "User to User points".
- Remove the part where it says "... from authored nodes" in the .info file (see below)
- All functions must start with user2userpoints, not donate_points ...etc. for the sake of consistency.

User interface:
- Why link this to a comment or a node at all? This is not good from the UI point of view. We can have a new menu/page where a user can give points to another user.

- There can also be a link on the user page (via hook_user, op=view) where you can say "give points to this user".

Otherwise, great job. Once the above are addressed, I will commit it.

I made some modifications (added CVS tag $Id$, added a permission, renamed 'give' to 'amount'), and committed it.

Here is the release http://drupal.org/node/156157. The tarball should appear there shortly.

Hi
this isn't working for me - neither from the admin nor from a user2user - am I doing something wrong? On /user2userpoints page when I submit the page just refreshes - no error nor success message. I have nothing appear on this page either: admin/user/userpoints
thanks in advance
Debs

sorry JR, still getting to understand the protocol!

I think this might be the same problem: http://drupal.org/node/166091

thanks for any help you can provide me!
Debs