2009/4/12 Joe Tho <koha@joetho.com>:
Hello,
It is actually fairly common in tiny community libraries. And as economic conditions deteriorate, it will likely become more so.
Imagine a patron has $20-50 in fines or replacement fees, and wants to check out a book, and the library agrees to let them pay $5 a visit until it is paid off. This is not something new, and various other ILS systems allow this. I would like to see this in the phantom Koha v3.2, whenever that appears.
I think you can already do this, at least you could in 1999 :) And it was still there in version 2.2.5, you went to view account, then chose create a manual credit. Then you entered the amount of the credit. It could be any amount. As you say this a common requirement and something HLT specified when they were working on creating Koha.
And having just checked Koha 3.0 you can still do this, you go to a borrower, check the fines tab, then choose create manual credit.
If you enter a barcode it should take the credit off the charge associated with that item.
Hope this helps
Chris hmm okay, i havn't actually had time at work to check this, so i was
Chris Cormack wrote: preparing myself for it on monday, boss said it couldn't be done but maybe ill show him and prove him wrong. thanks for the replies.