I believe if you migrate the correct due date and fine information
then you run the fine generator cron job you can indeed let Evergreen
fill in the fines themselves, provided you don't fill in the stop
fines reason. That won't, however, help for things that are returned
already in your existing system but still have owed fines (because you
would be setting a checkin date and such).
As for generating bills, a lot of systems already do that....though
most seem to be using various forms of home-grown tools in the process
due to differences in billing across libraries and consortia.
Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
Quoting Olli-Antti Kivilahti <[email protected]>:
Sprinting into a spring's spring!
One thought came up about migrating the bills/fines database.
Will Evergreen automatically calculate the correct amount of fines for
late checkins, if we migrate the checkout-data to Evergreen's
action.circulation and make sure we fill columns "recurring_fine",
"fine_interval", "xact_start", "max_fine"?
Can we somehow exploit Evergreen's fining mechanisms to help generate
bills for our patrons?
Generally we are thinking about the challenge of migrating all our data
to EG. Patron data, Bibliographic data, copy data, serials data, ongoing
acquisitions data, bills/fines data, holds data, circulation data. Lots
of work, maybe too much.
--
Olli-Antti Kivilahti
Open Library 2013
Library of Joensuu
