[Koha] Koha Cons

[Kyle Hall]

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>   *   Fines cannot be set to accrue by hour rather than by day (a useful
> feature for course reserves in academic libraries)
>

I am not very familiar with hourly loans, so maybe someone else would be
better off commenting on this.

  *   Additional programming needed (cronjob) for fines. Mode function
> (handles calculation and accrual of fines)
>

If the syspref CalculateFinesOnReturn is set, you can have the fines
calculated at the time of return.


>   *   Not possible to edit bills directly, unless reversing payment
>

Not possible, afaik. What reason would you want to do this?


>   *   Patron cannot pay fines through OPAC
>

I have submitted a patch to add PayPal support to the OPAC. However, it
depends on my accounts rewrite, so I don't expect to see it any a community
release soon.


>   *   Partial payment not possible, except by using manual credit feature
>

Partial payment is possible. Koha supports pay by amount. If you want to
partially pay a given fee, that is not possible currently. However, the
aforementioned accounts rewrite has this ability.


>   *   Staff client: Method and time of payment not shown
>

In Koha there are basically only payments and writeoffs. The accounts
rewrite adds more payment types and allows you to define new ones as well.
Time of payment is not currently displayed, but it is stored, and could be
displayed if someone were to submit a patch to do so. In the accounts
rewrite the time is already displayed.


>   *   No payment history available in staff client
>

Not sure what you mean by this, as the payment history *is* available in
the staff client.

For those who may be curious, the accounts rewrite patches can be found
here: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6427

Kyle

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