I am writing a new payment class for Paymate and I just need to check how I should be handling the records in the payment table. I have some code written by someone else for Paymate. I cannot get this to work but I have used bits of it. In it, a new row is created in the payment table
$payment = new Payment();
for every attempted transaction i.e. the original record create when the order is placed is not updated, rather a new record is created. I can see some benefit in this when customers have declined payments you can see each occurrence of it but it does not appear to be the way the other payments which come with Silverstripe work.
So my question is should my payment class update the original row in the payment table i.e. status will change from Incomplete to Success/Failure/Pending. Since there is no option partial payment there would be a one to one relationship between the order and payment table.
Thanks
Catherine
PS As I write this I think I already know the answer as you would still be able to track failures as a new order would be placed but can someone just confirm for me ...
