Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Third Party Credit Card Vendors
Hi Dawn- We also use Paypal Payflow Pro- we have been using them since 2011 without any incident at all. Before that we used them with our previous ILS since 2007 without any issues. Like Scott mentions there is not too much to worry about with set up. Thanks. Lisa Lisa Hill King County Library System-- ITS -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Scott Thomas Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 5:56 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Third Party Credit Card Vendors Hi Dawn, I am not sure if you mean for on-line bill payments via Evergreen or for other library functions. We use Paypal Payflow for on-line bill payments, and it works quite well. Once you set up your account on the Paypal side, all you have to do is put the host name and authentication information in Library Settings. The fees are reasonable, and the reporting on the Paypal end is good. Please let me know if you have additional questions about this. Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.org -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dale, Dawn Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 11:27 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Third Party Credit Card Vendors I am interested in knowing if anyone is using a third party credit card vendor such as Paypal, Stripe, or Authorize.net. And if so, what has your experience been. Thanks Dawn Dale GPLS Helpdesk Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7136 dd...@georgialibraries.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Elf and Evergreen
Hi Lise- We use Library Elf and have since we went live with Evergreen in 2010- we LOVE this service- and so do our patrons. It wasn’t that hard really Jeff Chow did all the work- are you having a specific issue? Thanks Lisa Lisa Hill | Software Projects Specialist | Business Applications King County Library System p: 425.369.3480 | f: 425.369.3407 . From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Elisabeth Keppler Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 9:49 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Elf and Evergreen Is anyone in the Evergreen community contracting with Library Elf to provide advance notice of impending due dates for checked out materials? Any opinions or advice on getting the software to play nicely with each other? Many thanks, Lise -- Lise Keppler, Technical Services Forsyth County Public Library 2851 Fairlawn Dr Winston Salem NC 27106 336-703-3048
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Elf and Evergreen
We had issues with the Evergreen parameters with a variety of our Comcast patrons not getting them- plus library elf can send out text messaging. So that is why we used them- so sometimes our patrons get both- bot not often- so for us- Library Elf has been a great fail safe. Thanks. Lisa From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Lisa Hill Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 10:08 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Elf and Evergreen Hi Lise- We use Library Elf and have since we went live with Evergreen in 2010- we LOVE this service- and so do our patrons. It wasn’t that hard really Jeff Chow did all the work- are you having a specific issue? Thanks Lisa Lisa Hill | Software Projects Specialist | Business Applications King County Library System p: 425.369.3480 | f: 425.369.3407 . From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Elisabeth Keppler Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 9:49 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Elf and Evergreen Is anyone in the Evergreen community contracting with Library Elf to provide advance notice of impending due dates for checked out materials? Any opinions or advice on getting the software to play nicely with each other? Many thanks, Lise -- Lise Keppler, Technical Services Forsyth County Public Library 2851 Fairlawn Dr Winston Salem NC 27106 336-703-3048
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Elf and Evergreen
Thank you Kathy- This is exactly why our patrons(of a public library) love this service. Lisa From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Lussier Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 10:32 AM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Elf and Evergreen Hi Lise, I think there are a few things Library Elf can do that Evergreen can't that might make it appealing for your users. - it allows you to receive notifications for multiple people in your family. You can do this through Evergreen too, but only if the same email address is used on each account. - if users have library cards in other systems, those notifications will be bundled into the ones for your library. - it gives users control over what notification method is used and when they receive those notifications. Some users may not want courtesy notices, but may want to receive hold notices. Some may only want to receive courtesy notices via text. I don't think there is anything special you need to do to get it talking to your Evergreen system. In fact, Library Elf may already been talking to your system for users who subscribe through a personal subscription. Kathy On 02/06/2015 01:22 PM, Elisabeth Keppler wrote: Thanks, Ruth. That sounds like something for me to discuss with our consortium. I wish all our patrons used email! Lise On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Ruth Frasur direc...@hagerstownlibrary.orgmailto:direc...@hagerstownlibrary.org wrote: Lise, This is something that Evergreen does automatically, so we don't use another service for it. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Elisabeth Keppler keppl...@forsyth.ccmailto:keppl...@forsyth.cc wrote: Is anyone in the Evergreen community contracting with Library Elf to provide advance notice of impending due dates for checked out materials? Any opinions or advice on getting the software to play nicely with each other? Many thanks, Lise -- Lise Keppler, Technical Services Forsyth County Public Library 2851 Fairlawn Dr Winston Salem NC 27106 336-703-3048tel:336-703-3048 -- Ruth Frasur Director of the Historic(ally Awesome) Hagerstown - Jefferson Township Library 10 W. College Street in Hagerstown, Indiana (47346) p (765) 489-5632tel:%28765%29%20489-5632; f (765) 489-5808tel:%28765%29%20489-5808 Our Kickin' Websitehttp://hagerstownlibrary.org Our Rockin' Facebook Pagehttp://facebook.com/hjtplibrary and Stuff I'm Readinghttp://pinterest.com/hjtplibrary/ruth-reads/ -- Lise Keppler, Technical Services Forsyth County Public Library 2851 Fairlawn Dr Winston Salem NC 27106 336-703-3048 -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128 kluss...@masslnc.orgmailto:kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment
Hi- Our board of trustees decided to absorb that cost ourselves. Some libraries put a minimum on fines patrons can pay with their credit card. Say they can only pay the fine if it is 5.00 and higher- I can't remember if there is a way to do this with Evergreen or not- but that helps them justify the cost of the processing the credit card fee. I think that you could see the charge- and you can test this yourself using the test cards that paypal gives you. Contact me offline if you need those numbers. Thanks- hope this helps. Lisa Lisa Hill | Projects Specialist | Virtual Library Services http://www.kcls.org and http://catalog.kcls.org p: 425.369.3480 | f: 425.369.3407 . -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 8:23 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment Good day everybody. I had a quick question about accepting credit cards through paypal for those libraries that do. Do any of you charge a convenience fee to your public for charging fine payments? Tinkering with a test server, it looks like the entire payment process occurs from within the TPAC when the public pay fines themselves. I know paypal has a setting where a fee can be automatically added to a balance, but I'm concerned that if we went this route and patrons were paying from within the OPAC that they would never see this fee until after their charges had been made. We are currently on 2.3.1 Thank you in advance. Joe -- Joseph Knueven Director Germantown Public Library 51 N. Plum St. Germantown, OH 45327 937-855-4001 knuev...@oplin.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Online credit card processing
KCLS has used payflow pro since 2005 and has had good experience with them. Feel free to contact me off line if you wish. Lisa Hill | Projects Specialist | Virtual Library Services http://www.kcls.orghttp://www.kcls.org/ and http://catalog.kcls.orghttp://catalog.kcls.org/ p: 425.369.3480 | f: 425.369.3407 . From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Miller, Jeremy Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 7:23 PM To: 'open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org' Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Online credit card processing Howdy and hello! We're looking into starting accepting credit/debit card payments online through the OPAC, and of course need to choose a payment processor. Between the available options in Evergreen, and those listed by our bank, the choices are narrowed down to: Authorize.net Paypal Payflow Pro We'd like to find out the experiences and opinions of other Evergreen libraries that currently use one of these services. Would anybody like to volunteer to talk to us about them? Thanks! - Jeremiah A. Miller - Sysadmin Albany Public Library, Albany OR W:541.917.7597 http://library.cityofalbany.net - DISCLAIMER: This e-mail may be a public record of the City of Albany and may be subject to the State of Oregon Retention Schedule and may be subject to public disclosure under the Oregon Public Records Law. This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please send a reply e-mail to let the sender know of the error and destroy all copies of the original message.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Envisionware and evergreen
Sorry I should have been more specific. We too have been using Envisionware- with great success. Our issue is with Report 2001 User Balance Query- it seems to take about 45-60 seconds to load the information. The other report that we use Report 2017 LPT One Deductions for User loads quickly. The only thing that we can think of is the SIP2 Protocol- however, our patrons can log into the machines pretty quickly- and our other applications that use SIP2 are fine- so maybe it is the way Envisionware handles SIP2 for this report? So I was wondering if anyone in the community has had success running report 2001 or had issues with it and fixed it- or if I need to start baking cookies for the libraries now Thanks for your help. Lisa From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of David M. Daniels Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 2:07 PM To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group' Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Envisionware and evergreen Lisa: A lot of us do, works great. Dave David M. Daniels Technology Support Director Georgia Download Destination Helpdesk Sara Hightower Regional Library Rome Georgia 706-236-4626 Office 706-409-1082 Cell ddani...@romelibrary.orgmailto:ddani...@romelibrary.org If they say it cannot be done, then they quit too soon! Quote by me. From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.orgmailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Lisa Hill Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 5:00 PM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.orgmailto:open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Envisionware and evergreen Hello- Is anyone using Envisionware PC Reservation system with Evergreen? Thanks Lisa Lisa Hill | Projects Specialist | Virtual Library Services http://www.kcls.orghttp://www.kcls.org/ and http://catalog.kcls.orghttp://catalog.kcls.org/ p: 425.369.3480 | f: 425.369.3407 .
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Credit card payments by patrons
Hi- This is Lisa from KCLS and we do take Credit Cards- we accept Visa and Master Card for payment of fines and fees. You can see some of the screen shots here: http://www.kcls.org/usingthelibrary/catalog_help/payfines/index.cfm Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks Lisa Lisa Hill Virtual Library Services| Project Specialist King County Library System 425.369.3480 From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Tara Robertson Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 9:55 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Credit card payments by patrons Im pretty sure KCLS does this. If they don't answer on this list, you might try emailing them directly (and reporting back to the list?) Cheers, Tara On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:48 AM, J. Sara Paulk jsarapaulk-w...@gmx.commailto:jsarapaulk-w...@gmx.com wrote: Didn't receive any feedback so trying again. Has anyone set up through the patron access a way for them to pay by credit card - Thanks! J. Sara Paulk / Regional Director Wythe-Grayson Regional Library P.O. Box 159, Independence, VA 24348 Phone-276-773-3018tel:276-773-3018 / FAX 276-773-3289tel:276-773-3289 http://wythegrayson.lib.va.us Email jsarapaulk-w...@gmx.commailto:jsarapaulk-w...@gmx.com === Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 9.1.0.2900, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.20930) http://www.pctools.comhttp://www.pctools.com/?cclick=EmailFooterClean_51 ===
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Whoops... RDA is a coming!!
Thanks Everyone- I will go ahead and open a Launchpad bug for 2.4. Thanks Lisa From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Grace Dunbar Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:57 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Whoops... RDA is a coming!! On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.netmailto:d...@coffeecode.net wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 04:33:53PM +, Lisa Hill wrote: Hi Folks- RDA- which I am being told does not stand for retirement day approaching is set for 3/31/2013. Rather than jumping directly to development proposals with specific companies or individuals, I would suggest opening a bug at http://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen with the details so that all Evergreen developers can discuss the best way forward for ensuring that we handle this in the Evergreen 2.4 release. +1 I think this is a great suggestion, Dan. I'd love to see what the catalogers (from all our varied Evergreen installations) think are the most critical points that need to be addressed. An open discussion amongst all the Evergreen developers via the usual channels (Launchpad, mailing lists, irc) should provide the best platform for progress. Grace
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Magnetic Card Readers
Hello- Right- Evergreen right now anyway only has online payments. We could not afford the insurance to do the telezons(what they call the mag readers) Thanks Lisa Lisa Hill | Projects Specialist | Virtual Library Services http://www.kcls.org and http://catalog.kcls.org p: 425.369.3480 | f: 425.369.3407 . -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Berezansky Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:47 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Magnetic Card Readers EG prefers keyboard emulation. It has no functionality that I am aware of for interacting with hardware directly for reading things on any platform. Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Justin Hopkins jus...@mobiusconsortium.org: Is anyone using a magnetic card reader with the new credit card payment feature in the 2.2 staff client? (I'm looking at you KCLS) One of our libraries is already using the feature but would like to purchase magnetic readers that are compatible. If anyone can recommend a particular model that would be great. Otherwise can anyone say whether EG prefers keyboard emulation or a specific magnetic reader HID type? Cheers, Justin
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron checkout history
KCLS uses it so it starts logging history at the time they OPT IN- it does not work retroactively. For example, If I enable my checkout history on the 1st and then I check books out on the 2nd it should up on the 2nd. However If I enable my checkout history on the 2nd it will not show items that were checked out on the 1st. Here is some more information about checkout history: http://www.kcls.org/usingthelibrary/catalog_help/newcat.cfm#checkouthist with screen shots. I hope this helps. Lisa -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Grace Dunbar Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 11:19 AM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron checkout history Bill, For clarification, when a patron opts-in to the checkout history does it: a.) go back in time and show them everything from the past X years? b.) start logging history at the time they opt-in? Grace On 9/23/11 2:15 PM, Bill Erickson wrote: Hi Gordana, The ability for patrons to opt-in and view checkout history is a new feature that will be included with the template toolkit OPAC. It consists of a user setting to opt-in and a new Checkout History tab under the Items Checked Out tab in My Account. From this interface, patrons can page through their checkout history. For more on TPac: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:opac:template-toolki t:release_notess[]=templates[]=toolkits[]=opac -b -- Grace Dunbar Vice President Equinox Software, Inc. gdun...@esilibrary.com 1-877-OPEN-ILS x5579 www.esilibrary.com
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Online fines Payment
KCLS has been taking payments since April 5, 2011. Ping me offline if you have any questions. Thanks Lisa Lisa Hill | Web Services Manager | Virtual Library Services http://www.kcls.org and http://catalog.kcls.org p: 425.369.3480 | f: 425.369.3407 . -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Forrest, Stuart Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 1:10 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Online fines Payment Hi Guys, A question, is there any of out there taking payments on line? Either via your library's website or the Evergreen OPAC? Thanks Stuart Forrest PhD, ACM Professional Member Library Systems Specialist Beaufort County Library 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, SC 29902 843-255-6450 sforr...@bcgov.net www.beaufortcountylibrary.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] KCLS Skins available
Hi- The current KCLS skin lives in the kcls-opac-skin branch of the evergreen/equinox.git repository on the Evergreen git sight. http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=evergreen/equinox.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/kcls-opac-skin Here's an explanation of some of the Evergreen git repositories: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:git Let me know if you have any questions. I know many of you wanted to get a hold of our skins sooner rather than later- I just want to thank you for your patience. When we get template toolkit we will post the new skins. Thanks Lisa
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] FW: Server-side OPAC development project: an introduction
Hi- Just to reiterate what Bill said access to the template toolkit on the KCLS Dev server can be found here: http://devcatalog.kcls.org/eg/opac/home We will configure test accounts later this week so you can take the my account features for a test drive. If you would like a test account please email devcata...@kcls.orgmailto:devcata...@kcls.org. We would love to hear what you think. Thanks Lisa Lisa Hill | Web Services Manager | Virtual Library Services http://www.kcls.orghttp://www.kcls.org/ and http://catalog.kcls.orghttp://catalog.kcls.org/ p: 425.369.3480 | f: 425.369.3407 . King County Library System | 960 Newport Way NW | Issaquah, WA 98027 From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Bill Erickson Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 8:44 AM To: Evergreen Development Discussion List; Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Server-side OPAC development project: an introduction Hi All, As some of you may know from various IRC discussions, etc., Equinox (ESI) is partnering with the King County Library System to build a server-side (i.e. non-Javascript driven) Template Toolkit OPAC. The purpose of this project is to re-architect the OPAC with a set of web development tools that will allow us to manage the logic of data retrieval and display on the server instead of in the client to provide a faster and more consistent OPAC experience. This work will improve OPAC rendering across browsers as well as have a significant impact on overall performance, particularly for users on slower networks. This approach has the additional benefit of using a platform which will make the OPAC more accessible and customizable to a wider group of developers and users. While the core requirement of the project is to provide KCLS with a drop-in OPAC replacement, there is, in my opinion, a clear opportunity here for wider adoption of the new architecture by the Evergreen community at large. The Architecture We are replacing all of the Javascript data retrieval and display logic with mod_perl and Template Toolkit (http://template-toolkit.org/), which is an open source template processing system that is fast, flexible, and highly extensible. The mod_perl code is responsible for retrieving and packaging data, then passing it off (through the blood-brain barrier, so to speak) to the template environment, which is responsible for display. All in all, it’s pretty standard web development stuff and I look forward to discussing the architecture further for anyone that’s interested. What’s the current status of the project? ESI recently built a proof of concept (PoC) using a modified copy of the new KCLS skin. (We removed all but the most trivial JS, sliced up the HTML templates to better suit Template Tookit, and began the process of moving inline CSS to external CSS files for general cleanliness and render speed). A version of the PoC has been pushed to the KCLS development server at http://devcatalog.kcls.org/eg/opac/home for testing. (Note, this is not intended to be a full-featured, bug-free environment. It’s there to test our basic assumptions about performance and rendering. Please be nice to KCLS’ servers). We continue to add new features to the code, which lives in an an ESI Git branch: http://git.esilibrary.com/?p=evergreen-equinox.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/opac-tt-poc The branch is kept up-to-date with Evergreen trunk and is trivial to install over an existing trunk install. I can put a how-to on the wiki for anyone that is interested. Why would the community want to use the code? The obvious and immediate benefits are that the code will address the issues of performance and rendering mentioned above. What’s more, the templates should be easier to navigate and customize, given the separation of data retrieval and display and the lack of external Javascript driving the display. Template Toolkit also has a nice feature that allows for overriding individual templates, which will be a great tool for building local skins, especially if the templates are designed from the outset with that in mind. What now? ESI will continue adding features to this new OPAC. To provide the best long-term flexibility, we will develop with the assumption that it could be merged into Evergreen at some point. As a community, we should decide if this new architecture is a good path for Evergreen in general. This doesn’t have to happen today, but deciding earlier gives us more flexibility and clearer goals in the short term. Then we devise a plan for fostering the two projects in a way that allows them to grow together. I look forward to your questions. Thanks -b -- Bill Erickson | VP, Software Development
