[Koha] koha fees and handling centage

[scott]

scott wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> 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.

Ok check this out, i do believe partial payment DOES work, it takes your 
biblio/inventory number and stores it in the database in the table 
called accountlines. puts that itemnumber in there and so you are doing 
payments for that "item."

here is a screenshot.

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