Diane, another option, if you prefer, is to chat (either voice or text) over skype. My account is rwhitney-grameen. You can just ping me if we are both online or we can arrange a time to chat (although next week might be better as it's the holiday week here)
Cheers, Ryan Ryan Whitney Mifos Technical Program Manager [email protected] Mifos - Technology that Empowers Microfinance (www.mifos.org) > From: Ed Cable <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:27:03 -0800 (PST) > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Ryan Whitney > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Multiple users of the same account and penalties calculations > > Hello Diane, > > Would you be able to respond to Ryan's answers below and provide some > additional information regarding your two questions so we can > thoroughly respond. > > Thanks, > > Ed > > On Dec 16, 3:10 am, Ryan Whitney <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hello, I'll see if I can answer some of your questions below. >> >>> From: <[email protected]> >>> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:44:48 -0600 >>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >>> Subject: [Mifos-users] Multiple users of the same account and penalties >>> calculations >>> I am new to Mifos and would like to implement it. I already installed it >>> and put some data to test. >>> Here I have two cases that I was not able to manage. >>> 1. I have an account of an association, the account holder is the >>> association and it has two persons who are responsible of account movement. >>> How can I create this account? >> >> Let me rephrase this to see if I understand. You have a customer that is >> actually an organization? And you would like to have two names attached to >> the account so either person can access the account? >> >> If that's correct, I would add some custom fields for client accounts that >> retain the names of the individuals that can access the account, may even >> want to add another field to hold some ID numbers to authenticate them. I >> would then enter in the organization name as the name on the account for >> searching. >> >> >> >>> 2. For penalties calculations, penalties used to be calculated according to >>> how much the client delayed to pay the loan installment. Is there a way of >>> calculating penalties in Mifos? So far, what I have seen is where you >>> specify the amount as penalty. >> >> Not currently, no, penalties are only entered in as specific amounts as you >> discovered. The work around would be for an organization to have a >> procedure for calculating what this amount should be. >> >> Hope that helps, >> Ryan >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. >> The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help >> pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register >> athttp://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitm... >> _______________________________________________ >> Mifos-users mailing list >> [email protected]https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo >> /mifos-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mifos-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mifos-users
