HI, Have had a question about overdues and fines in Koha, and thought you may all be interested in the answer. QUESTION - Does koha have functionality to automatically record overdues $$ and other penalties and print o/d notices? Yep it does - the library fills in a schedule matching itemtype and borrower type to a loan length and a fine amount as part of the setup, and then Koha calculates the fines based on that. Librarians can write of fines if they need too. for a demo see http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/cgi-bin/koha/moremember.pl?bornum=11250 Fines owing comes up when you're issuing a book, and it won't let you issue if the borrower owes more than $5. You could change that amount if you wanted to. It doesn't automaticaly prints over due notices right now, although it collects them, and we have been doing work with talking technologies to get the overdue notices going to the auto phone system - so we have a text file that is output at the moment, but it could easily be output to the printer rather than the phone system. Hope that's what you need to know Cheers Rachel _____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications WEBMISTRESS ph 025 300 825 or +64 04 389 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 7039, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand