[Koha-devel] RFC: Modification to Fines System

[Chris Cormack]

2009/10/2 Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com>:
> I just thought of a reasonably easy way to track both the payment made
> by a borrower, and the payment as applied to charges on a borrowers
> account. Let's start with the three $5 fine scenario again, which the
> borrower is paying in full.
>
> 1. A payment of $15 is made, it is inserted with a new accounttype (
> say BORPMNT ).
> 2. This payment is broken down into 3 $5 payments, each of which
> reference one of the existing charges.
> 3. Each of these payments also reference the $15 payment through a new
> column, say accountno_pmnt
>
> The BORPMNT could either live in the existing accountlines table, or
> could be stored in yet another table.
>
> The real question is: is this necessary? Do any libraries using Koha
> need to track total payments against individual fine payments?
>
Yes, they need to be able to say to a person who queries their
account, you paid $15 on this day, and it went against these 3 fines.
Or paid off $15 of this lost book replacement charge. The more
information they have when a borrower queries their account the easier
their lives are.

Chris