The site supports the following functions:

Forums  - there are three: Users, Implementors, and Developers

Books - there are a number of these. The most important are the Context Sensitive Help, the Developer's Handbook, the Implementors Handbook, and this one,  OpenVPMS site administration. There are also a Users Handbook, Navigation, Features books - the content of these is functionally being replaced by that in the Context Sensitive Help book. Book management requires the 'Documentation manager' role.

Projects - this is functionally a tailored forum that supports project specific discussion and enables the project development and funding status to be displayed.  It supports a simple pledging mechanism (enabling a user to send an email to op_funding[at]boroniavet.com[dot]au pledging money to the project), and a donation mechanism (enabling the user to contribute money to the project). To create and edit projects one must have the 'Project manager' role.  Note that the funding tracking is done externally (currently by Peter Gooey) and is not automated - ie there is no system which totals the pledges and donations to a project and updates the funding status.

Subscriptions - this enables users to pay their subscriptions.  It provides automatic notification of subscription expiry.  See also http://www.openvpms.org/openvpms-site-administration/store-ubercart and http://www.openvpms.org/openvpms-site-administration/store-manager-tasks

Donations - this enables users to make a general donation. It uses the same Ubercart e-commerce module as the Subscriptions facility. Note that the donation mechanism in the Project facility simply generates a donation with a note indicating which project is being donated to.