https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24603
--- Comment #20 from Martin Renvoize <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #18) > > I'd also love an explanation on how void, cancel and other options differ! > (little confused there) OK, I must admit, I did wonder this myself and had a conversation with Julian about it.. must have been IRC as I don't see it in the comments above. So.. Void: This can only be applied to 'payments' and it will reverse the whole payment process and affect the payment line amounts itself. If the payment has been applied against any debts, then those debts will have their amounts reset to the value they had before the payment was applied to them. The final payment line will read 'VOID' as it's status and will have an amount and amountoutstanding of '0'.. It's basically meant for "correcting mistakes". (I don't like this method as at present it's the only one that doesn't respect double-entry accounting as it changes the accountline in question directly without adding a distinct 'VOID' line to the system to offset it.) Cancel: This can only be applied to 'charges' and only charges that have not yet had any payment/credit applied against them. Other Options (May as well list them all): Forgive - Is automatically applied to 'overdue charges' depending on settings; for example, if the item is marked as lost and lost charge is added instead. Discount - Can only be applied to 'charges', records a discount line that is applied against the outstanding amount on the charge. Used to give a patron an agree discount on the list price of the charge. (Currently this is manually added) Pay - Can only be applied to 'charges', used to pay either the whole or part of the outstanding debt Writeoff - Can only be applied to 'charges', records a 'writeoff' line that is applied against the list price of the charge. In British libraries at least, this signifies when they've 'Given up' on getting the money from the patron. Payout - Can only be applied to 'credits', where the patron has excess credit on their account for one reason or another (Perhaps they paid a fine in full before a backdated return was added). Allows the library to pay the credit back out to the patron. Refund - Can be applied to a debt that has been paid off already. This is used to grant a patron credit/payout a cash amount when the library has decided they have wrongly charged a patron for some reason and the patron has already paid. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Koha-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-bugs website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
