https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=27910 Bug ID: 27910 Summary: Fines and Fees workflow for consortiums Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: master Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 - low Component: Fines and fees Assignee: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org Reporter: cbrannon@cdalibrary.org QA Contact: testopia@bugs.koha-community.org Not all fines and fees can be accepted by the library the patron comes into in a consortium. Some consortiums let the circing library keep overdue fines. Others may want to recover those funds for their library. The same goes for lost fees. It would be great if there were options to define if funds stay at the circing library for fines or fees. If there were such an option, we would need to develop how those funds are recorded and processed. It is very difficult for a library to accept funds and then parse those funds out to other libraries after they have been recorded as being taken at their own library. Let's assume a lost item for library B is being paid for at library A. Library B has set their register to claim all lost fees on their items. So, when this item is paid for at Library A, it is recorded as accepted at Library A, but the Cash Up would track any amounts collected for other libraries and would calculate how much goes to Library B, and then what is left for Library A. Only the funds that are not for other libraries would be recorded as the actual incoming funds for Library A. I would think that the totals for each library should have some kind of fund transfer number next to it. That number is recorded (or printed maybe with a barcode) and sent with the funds to that library. Library B would then need to record the receipt of those incoming funds by inputting the transfer number (or maybe scanning the slip), and confirming the amount that came with the slip. The transactions for those funds would then be recorded in the tables as payments received at Library B at that time and would show in their Cash Up for that day. And there would have to be some kind of procedure figured out for discrepancies during the transfer. I know this seems a bit daunting, but at some point this would be a great enhancement for consortiums. I welcome other consortiums to weigh in and give their input on this workflow. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. You are the assignee for the bug.