SudoSOS Backend

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Key Workflows ​

This chapter shows how SudoSOS behaves in practice. It does not try to document every endpoint; it explains the flows that keep the system correct.

After reading this page, you should know which entities and services are involved when money moves.

Purchase (create a transaction) ​

Trigger + actor

  • Member buys items (self-service) or a cashier enters the purchase (cashier mode).

API surface

  • POST /transactions (create)
  • POST /transactions/validate (validate without creating; used by some clients)
  • GET /transactions and GET /transactions/:id (read)

Entities touched

  • Transaction, SubTransaction, SubTransactionRow
  • product/container/POS revisions referenced by rows and sub-transactions
  • Balance cache (updated from transaction rows and transfers)

Critical checks

  • product revisions exist and match the request
  • container/POS configuration matches (what is available where)
  • debt rules (canGoIntoDebt for the buyer)
  • POS token restrictions for “lesser” POS tokens

Who receives the money

  • Revenue is split by SubTransaction: the container owner is the seller for that part of the purchase. The POS owner and product creator are not used to decide who is paid.

Side effects

  • receipts/notifications may be sent by subscribers after persistence

Invoice ​

Trigger + actor

  • Finance/admin groups eligible purchase rows into an invoice. Conceptually this is a top-up paid via bank transfer.

API surface

  • GET /invoices/eligible-transactions (discover what can be invoiced)
  • POST /invoices (create)
  • GET /invoices/:id and GET /invoices (read)
  • GET /invoices/:id/pdf (PDF)
  • PATCH /invoices/:id (state changes, updates)
  • DELETE /invoices/:id (delete/cancel invoice)

Entities touched

  • Invoice (and invoice entries)
  • SubTransactionRow links to invoices (to prevent double invoicing)
  • an invoice transfer (void → user) that increases the user balance

Critical checks

  • which rows are eligible (and for which user)
  • linking/unlinking rows is consistent (no row belongs to multiple invoices)

VAT note

  • VAT does not live on the invoice transfer. VAT is recorded via the underlying transactions and is reflected in seller-side settlement (seller payouts).

Deposit (Stripe top-up) ​

Trigger + actor

  • Member tops up their balance via Stripe.

API surface

  • POST /stripe/deposit (create a Stripe payment intent; checks min/max top-up rules)
  • POST /stripe/webhook (Stripe notifies the backend about payment intent updates)
  • GET /stripe/public (frontend fetches Stripe public key and return URL)

Entities touched

  • Stripe payment intent records (backend-owned representation)
  • a top-up transfer (void → user) that credits the user when the payment succeeds
  • balance cache (derived from transfers)

Critical checks

  • webhook event authenticity (signature verification)
  • event routing: only accept events intended for this service
  • idempotency: the same Stripe event may be delivered multiple times

Terminal Payment (Stripe physical payment) ​

Trigger +actor

  • Customer wants to perform an (anonymous) transaction and pay for it directly.

API surface

  • POST /terminal-payments (create transaction to be paid, either anonymous (fromUser is POS) or by existing user)
  • POST /terminal-payments/{id}/process (assign terminal payment to Stripe Terminal Reader and start physical transaction)
  • GET /terminal-payments/terminals (get all Stripe Terminal Readers)

Entities touched

  • TerminalPayment
  • Everything from Purchase (create a transaction)
  • Everything from Deposit (Stripe top-up)

Critical checks

  • Amount is fixed at creation. When transaction needs to be edited, a new TerminalPayment must be created.
  • Terminal can only process one TerminalPayment at a time.

Simplified flow

  1. Temporary transaction is created (as if you are creating an actual transaction).
  2. Balance is topped up with the amount to be paid for that transaction.
  3. Temporary transaction is transformed into an actual transaction. Temporary transaction is removed.

Trigger + actor

  • Treasurer (or a user for themself) creates a fixed-amount top-up request with an expiry. The recipient opens a share link (no login), pays via Stripe, and the money is credited to the linked user's balance.

API surface

  • POST /payment-requests (create; admin can create for anyone, regular users only for themselves)
  • GET /payment-requests (admin only: list all)
  • GET /users/:id/payment-requests (admin for any user, regular users only for themselves)
  • GET /payment-requests/:id (read a single request; admin sees all, user sees own)
  • POST /payment-requests/:id/cancel (cancel a PENDING request)
  • POST /payment-requests/:id/start (authenticated: start a Stripe session)
  • POST /payment-requests/:id/mark-fulfilled (admin escape hatch for out-of-band payment)
  • GET /payment-requests-public/:id (unauthenticated: fetch a trimmed view via share link)
  • POST /payment-requests-public/:id/start (unauthenticated: start a Stripe session via share link)

Entities touched

  • PaymentRequest (UUID pk, immutable amount, derived status)
  • PaymentRequestAttempt (join table) links a PaymentRequest to each StripePaymentIntent it spawned — one request can have many intents (retries)
  • on success: the standard Stripe deposit Transfer (void → user) already created by the deposit flow also settles the payment request

Lifecycle (derived status)

  • PENDING → PAID when a linked Stripe intent succeeds.
  • PENDING → CANCELLED when an authorized user cancels.
  • PENDING → EXPIRED when expiresAt passes without payment.
  • Status is derived from paidAt / cancelledAt / expiresAt; precedence is PAID > CANCELLED > EXPIRED > PENDING.

Critical checks

  • amount is fixed at creation — a corrected amount means cancelling and creating a fresh request
  • startPayment rejects non-PENDING requests
  • the Stripe webhook flow idempotently calls markPaid: already-paid requests are left unchanged, cancelled requests refuse to flip, and expired-but-settled requests still become PAID (the money arrived, the clock is secondary)

Invoices vs. payment requests

  • Invoices create their own credit transfer on behalf of the user (a "paper-trail top-up").
  • Payment requests do not pre-create a credit transfer — the Stripe deposit is the single settlement event. A future "invoice via payment link" flow will compose by leaving the settlement to the payment request.

Payout request (withdraw balance) ​

Trigger + actor

  • Member requests a payout of part of their balance; admin approves and processes it.

API surface

  • POST /payoutrequests (create request)
  • POST /payoutrequests/:id/status (cancel, approve, process, etc.)
  • GET /payoutrequests and GET /payoutrequests/:id (read)
  • GET /payoutrequests/:id/pdf (PDF)

Entities touched

  • PayoutRequest and PayoutRequestStatus records
  • payout transfers (user → void) that move money out of the user account

Critical checks

  • user has sufficient balance at request time and at approval time
  • only admins can move a request to non-cancel states
  • only the requesting user can cancel their own request

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