[Koha] Expiring soon borrower notice?

[Heather Braum (NEKLS)]

Katrin -- thank you! I haven't had a chance to look through the release
notes yet. Good to know.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 2:52 PM Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer.83 at web.de>
wrote:

> Hi Heather and Agnes,
>
> good news - a new feature to send membership expiry notices was released
> with Koha 3.22 :)
>
> Bug 6810 - Send membership expiry reminder notices
> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6810
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Katrin
>
>
> Am 02.12.2015 um 21:43 schrieb Heather Braum (NEKLS):
> > Agnes, I think this would be a great idea! Would you post a bug number
> when
> > you get it filed? We are running into this in our consortia with people
> who
> > only use the computers and authenticate against the database for computer
> > access, as well as digital content.
> >
> > -Heather
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 2:36 PM Agnes Rivers-Moore <arm at hanover.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Koha users and developers
> >>
> >> We have a number of members (patrons) who only borrow e-books.
> >> This means staff do not see them and they do not get reminded that their
> >> membership will expire - until they call to complain that their
> downloads
> >> stop working.
> >>
> >> I would like Koha to generate a notice to let them know that they will
> >> need to renew soon - similar to the book is due soon notice but based on
> >> expiry of the borrower account.
> >>
> >> That would allow us to tell them whet they need to do to renew their
> >> account before their service is affected, and also tell them about new
> >> services/reasons to renew.
> >>
> >> Has anyone found a way to do that - or is anyone thinking of developing
> a
> >> new notice for this?
> >> If not, I will add a new item to Bugzilla - watch there if you want to
> >> follow developments.
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> >> Agnes
> >>
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Heather Braum
NExpress Coordinator
Resource Sharing Librarian
Northeast Kansas Library System
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