Bug 26088

Summary: Add optional fee for (scanned) article requests
Product: Koha Reporter: Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy>
Component: CirculationAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: gmcharlt, kyle.m.hall
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20472
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=27946
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Description Marcel de Rooy 2020-07-29 14:54:04 UTC
See bug 20472, adding digital scan as a format next to photocopy.
We need some way to add an optional fee for these services.

Please submit your ideas here :)
Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2020-08-16 11:01:27 UTC
I wonder - is the fee per type (digital scan, photocopy) or depending on the number of pages too? Maybe instead of a default/calculated fee, the first step would be to have an input field to add the costs manually.
Comment 2 Marcel de Rooy 2020-08-17 07:18:32 UTC
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #1)
> I wonder - is the fee per type (digital scan, photocopy) or depending on the
> number of pages too? Maybe instead of a default/calculated fee, the first
> step would be to have an input field to add the costs manually.

Yes, we should be able to differentiate. But adding it manually per request might be too cumbersome.
So I guess we need a standard fee, and a price per page above some threshold or so to make it sufficiently flexible. For both copy as well as scan.
Say fee = 1, threshold = 20, page = 0.1
Then we could have 10 pages for 1, 20 pages for 1, 25 pages for 1.5, 30 pages for 2, etc.

Any better ideas are welcome !
Comment 3 Marcel de Rooy 2020-08-17 07:19:39 UTC
One of the challenges here would be to extract the number of pages from a free text field btw..
Comment 4 Katrin Fischer 2020-08-17 07:30:27 UTC
(In reply to Marcel de Rooy from comment #3)
> One of the challenges here would be to extract the number of pages from a
> free text field btw..

We could as a suggestion, but you need to be able to change it manually - often what the user gives is not correct or they only tell the start page etc. Sometimes an ad page might be in between that is left out for scanning etc.
Comment 5 Marcel de Rooy 2021-07-13 11:29:29 UTC
Bug 27946 is even kind of duplicate; could this one be closed ?
Comment 6 Marcel de Rooy 2021-09-17 09:37:39 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 27946 ***