[Koha] koha fees and handling centage

Scott tacogrande55 at hotmail.com
Sun Apr 12 11:28:56 NZST 2009


Chris Cormack 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
hmm okay, i havn't actually had time at work to check this, so i was 
preparing myself for it on monday, boss said it couldn't be done but 
maybe ill show him and prove him wrong. thanks for the replies.



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