Bug 24622

Summary: Restrict circulation by price
Product: Koha Reporter: Christofer Zorn <christofer.zorn>
Component: CirculationAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: bwsdonna, gmcharlt, kyle.m.hall, lisette.scheer
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Christofer Zorn 2020-02-10 19:19:16 UTC
Hello All!

Thank you for all the work you're doing on things like this.

I know we can currently restrict circulation by quantity, saying that someone can borrow up to a certain number of items concurrently (in our case it is 50).

Has it ever been discussed, or is it even possible to restrict based on the sum of the replacement value being under a defined amount? We're looking at this from a risk management standpoint and asking if it is reasonable to allow a patron to borrow one iPad, one Chromebook, one Launchpad device, etc and have say 10 items out that carry a total replacement value of $2000? It would be great to limit our exposure to loss by preventing patrons from being able to borrow more than $1500 of our material concurrently.

We are not trying to prevent people from borrowing things, but simply mitigating our risk on not having those items brought back and having to send someone to collections with little to no hope of recovery.

Thank you again!

Christofer
Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2023-06-08 21:53:22 UTC
Hi Christofer, I don't remember any bug or discussion about a feature like this so far, but I understand where you are coming from. 

In the circulation module the total replacement price shows in the table of checkouts, maybe some workaround could be built using that and jQuery.
Comment 2 Christofer Zorn 2023-06-09 12:58:28 UTC
Hey Katrin!

I can work with our vendor about pushing some jQuery in to accomplish this, but I still think this is a nice feature ... whether it be at a card level restriction or an item level one.

We also offer temp cards to patrons who don't have identification, so limiting the exposure to that would also be helpful.

Thank you!

Chris