[Koha] koha fees and handling centage

scott tacogrande55 at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 14 03:55:59 NZST 2009


Nicole Engard wrote:
> :( Nope it doesn't work.  I owed $14 on one item and I went to manual
> credit and put in 10 for a partial payment.  It subtracted 10 from my
> total - but not from what I owe on that one item.  Also instead of the
> barcode it shows the bib number on the account history - which I think
> I reported a bug about.  See attached.
> 
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> 
> Nicole C. Engard
> Open Source Evangelist, LibLime
> (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714
> nce at liblime.com
> AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard
> 
> http://liblime.com
> http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
>> 2009/4/12 Joe Tho <koha at 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
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weird bug, im gonna have to see if that does it on mine as well. Maybe i 
can fix it before the koha team does.



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