[BUIDL Season & Audition Onchain] SC-0012: Implement Payment and Compensation Infrastructure

[CollinsC1O]

Issue Description:

We need to add a robust payment system that handles session fees, participant compensation, and platform revenue. Currently, our auditions and sessions contract has no financial functionality, which limits its real-world applicability for professional auditions and sessions.

📌 Requirements

• Add payment structures to sessions including audition fees and participant rewards
• Build secure payment processing functions that handle both ETH, STRK and ERC20 tokens
• Create an escrow system that holds payments until session completion
• Implement automatic payment distribution based on session outcomes
• Add refund mechanisms for cancelled or failed sessions
• Build platform fee collection with configurable percentage rates
• Create payment splitting for scenarios with multiple participants
• Add payment history tracking for all transactions
• Implement payment dispute resolution mechanisms
• Build payment analytics for session creators and platform administrators
• Ensure to log all events

🔍 Testing Requirements

• Verify payment processing works correctly for all supported tokens
• Test escrow functionality with various session completion scenarios
• Confirm refund mechanisms work properly for different cancellation reasons
• Test platform fee calculations and collection accuracy
• Verify payment splitting distributes funds correctly among multiple recipients
• Test edge cases like partial payments and failed transactions
• Confirm payment history tracking captures all transaction details
• Test dispute resolution workflows and escrow release mechanisms
• Verify gas efficiency for batch payment operations
• Test integration with session management and evaluation systems
• Test all implemented events and ensure the emmit properly and as expected.

🎯 Expected Outcome

• A secure and flexible payment system that enables professional usage
• Support for multiple payment methods and currencies
• Complete test coverage for all financial operations and event emmition
• Clear documentation on payment flows and fee structures

🚀 How to Contribute

• Fork & Clone the repo
• Create a new branch:

git checkout -b 'feature/payment-system'

• Research StarkNet's best practices for handling financial transactions
• Design payment flows that prioritize security and user experience. This is very important 💪🎯
• Implement the payment infrastructure with comprehensive error handling
• Add extensive tests covering all financial scenarios, all!
• Submit a PR with detailed payment documentation

Note:

• Security is absolutely critical when handling user funds. Ensure to put this in mind 🎯🔥
• This is a sensitive issue considering we're dealing with user funds. please make your implementation with carefulness and proiritize correct implementation in all cases and also robust security
• Join our telegram community: TG community

Thanks for helping us build a secure financial foundation! 🚀

[OWK50GA]

Open for contribution?

[psychemist]

hello. i would love to implement this payment and compensation infrastructure for the MusicStrk auction/audition system.

[tusharshah21]

Hey if this issue is idle can you assign it to me, would love to take a look into it @CollinsC1O