[Koha] koha fees and handling centage

Nicole Engard nicole.engard at liblime.com
Tue Apr 14 22:58:16 NZST 2009


What version is this on? Cause I tried it on mine and did not have
that result ... it kept my total due to the full amount instead of
taking off the partial payment I put in.

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Nicole C. Engard
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2009/4/13 scott <tacogrande55 at hotmail.com>:
> 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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