[Koha-bugs] [Bug 28656] Cancellations should be allowed on paid/partially paid debts

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28656

--- Comment #13 from Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy at rijksmuseum.nl> ---
(In reply to Martin Renvoize from comment #9)
> Still needs tests updating.
> 
> I'm not 100% sure about the mechanism if I'm honest... re-embursing the
> patron now has two differing options that have pretty different outcomes.. I
> almost feel like we should offer a system preference for the two ways of
> recording the history.
> 
> With this patch, the cancel method will 'reverse' any applied payment
> offsets.. thus giving back any outstanding balance to the original credit.
> (In the UI we actually still prevent 'Cancellation' on lines that have any
> such offsets however.. we only allow cancellation if no payments have been
> made but we do now allow discounted/written off debts to be cancelled).
> 
> The 'refund' option will add a refund accountline and immediately apply it
> to the debt.. any outstanding balance is then left on the 'refund' line
> which is returned from the method.. which can then be 'paid out'.  I'm was
> thinking it would be nice to split the 'refund' and 'refund credit'.  So
> this doesn't 'reverse' payments.. it adds a new 'credit' instead.. which can
> be immediately paid out.
> 
> Thoughts

Still need to get a better understanding of what is happening in Accounts. But
intuitively the whole operation seems too complicated to me now. As a first
observation :)

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