[Koha] Fwd: Managing fines in a consortial environment

[Kivilahti Olli-Antti]

Hello Mr. Vinton,
and greetings from Finland!

We are facing a similar issue and were planning to solve it with SQL 
reports. Each library just receives payments regardless of the origin of 
items.
We can see which libraries received and how much money from the 
accountlines database table. You can target the item, the staff member 
who received the payment and the borrower. This should provide ample 
data to distribute the collected fines annually or bi-annually based on 
the SQL reports.

I would also note that we are not yet in production and cannot verify 
this 100%.

Olli-Antti Kivilahti
Open library 2014
Joensuu Regional Library

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On 21.10.2013 02:00, koha-request at lists.katipo.co.nz wrote:
> From: Cab Vinton<bibliwho at gmail.com>
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> Oof.
>
> We're part of a 3-library Koha consortium and technically each library
> is supposed to only deal with fines pertaining to its own items.
>
> But the Fines detail page is less than helpful when it comes to
> figuring out to which library fines are owed. (Staff have to look at
> each item individually.)
>
> Do other Koha consortia have best practices for dealing with fines
> when dealing with multiple libraries (vs. branches of the same library
> system)? What improvements would you suggest?
>
> It seems like this would be an area where consensus would be a good
> thing to have before submitting bug reports, feature requests, etc.
>
> FWIW, the only related bug I've found is this one --
> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=9975
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cab Vinton, Director
> Plaistow Public Library
> Plaistow, NH
> & Southern NH Library Cooperative