[Koha] koha fees and handling centage

Scott tacogrande55 at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 15 14:03:02 NZST 2009


Nicole Engard wrote:
> 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
> Open Source Evangelist, LibLime
> (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714
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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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Where i work we have a programmer that alters the latest koha to our 
liking and, when i first posted on here it was to see if there was a 
solution to what my boss wanted, because a librarian from a school 
district we work with said it wasnt doing what she wanted, removing 
fines from specific books etc..., so we can only upgrade so many koha 
systems a month and have other priorities. But like i said we have an 
altered version, if your interested in checking it out I can get you a 
zip of it. We are still trying to find out if its the librarians old 
version and our new one has the fix or not. I hope this makes sense.



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