2009/10/2 Kyle Hall <kyle.m.h...@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.
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