Chat, Messages and reminders

#The deal's chat

Each deal has its own live chat between you and your buyer. Messages arrive instantly, with typing, online and "seen" marks. Every message is saved with the server's time and a fingerprint in the deal's evidence log, so the conversation itself is part of the record.

PactPal also posts cards in the chat: an agreement ready for review, changes requested, a step done, a reminder. Each card opens the right part of the deal.

A chat you paste in from elsewhere is kept as supporting material and labelled as pasted by you, because only you supplied it.

#Messages

Messages gathers every deal's chat in one place, grouped by the person you deal with. If one buyer has two deals with you, both chats sit under their name. Each chat shows its newest message, when it was sent and how many you have not read; search finds a person, a deal or words in a message.

Each deal keeps its own chat, because its agreement is drafted from it and its evidence log cites it. Messages only gathers them, and names the deal beside the chat you are reading.

#Reminders

PactPal reminds whoever a step is waiting for, by email and in the chat, when it is due soon or overdue. Reminders and other news appear under Needs you on your dashboard; news about a chat opens it in Messages.