[Koha] Manually freezing fines

[Bob Birchall]

On 13/06/17 16:02, Mr. Ian McNaught wrote:
> Hi
>
> At our university, at a certain point in the semester we transfer any
> outstanding fines from Koha onto the students account on the student
> information system so it blocks their re-registration or collection of
> results until paid. At this moment, the books are not returned, so fines
> continue to increment on Koha leaving us with two systems with out of sync
> fine amounts. Is there a way to manually freeze fines without the book
> being returned? I know there's the fine cap value, but that's a fixed
> amount - we want to freeze the fine at whatever value it's at on the day we
> transfer the fines.
>
> Ian
> *Ian McNaught*
> *Head of Library & Computing Services*
> *Tel: (+968) 24730404*
>
You could switch off the finesMode system preference?
- new overdues will not incur fines;
- remember to switch it on again at the start of the new semester.

Maybe someone else can think of a better way?

Bob Birchall
Calyx