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Kuldeep Thakur
Kuldeep Thakur

Reputation: 215

database design for a payment system

I have four table as below:

FEES

fees_id, interest, amount, total_amount, status_id, is_recurring  recurring_status  from_date   to_date      payment_id
    F001     1.50  1000    1015          1          N             NULL              2018-11-01  2018-11-01   1
    F002     2.00  2000    1020          1          Y             COMPLETE          2018-11-01  2018-11-20   2

PAYMENT

id, amount,  payment_date, txn_id, bnk_name, txn_status, pay_mode, dd_no, dd_date,   chk_no, chk_date
1   1015     2018-11-11    TXN0001 SBI       1           1         NULL   NULL       NULL    NULL
2   1020     2018-11-20    NULL    NULL      NULL        3         DNO001 2018-11-19 NULL    NULL

PAY_MODES

id  name   display
------------------
1   ONLINE Y
2   CASH   Y
3   DRAFT  Y
4   CHECK  Y

PAYMENT_STATUS

id  status  display
-------------------
1   PAID    Y
2   UNPAID  Y

A fee can be paid by any of the four pay modes.

I have few questions:

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5078

Answers (1)

Shishir Sonekar
Shishir Sonekar

Reputation: 410

Que: Is it ok (in this scenario) to have one payment table for all pay modes OR is there any better option?

Yes, all the payment should be in one Payment Table. This helps to maintain the transactional integrity constraint. Also, it will helpful for you in future while generating various reports

Que: A fee can be recurring (paid every month until its recurring status is completed). How can I handle these payments?

You should have another table for maintaining the recurring payments record as Subscription table and at every recurring payment event of a record insert new entry into payment table. So, One subscription record will be related to multiple payment entries.

Que: Do I need to store each payment response (in case of online payment) whether success, fail or whatever. If yes, should I use a separate table or store in a file?

Yes, you should store the payment response in the same payment table record. This will help you out in the failover detection as well as major help in Audit Log.

Upvotes: 5

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