| Summary: | Move hold fee setting into circulation rules | ||
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| Product: | Koha | Reporter: | Jane Wagner <jwagner> |
| Component: | Hold requests | Assignee: | Bugs List <koha-bugs> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Bugs List <koha-bugs> |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | chris, fiona.borthwick, jcamins, martin.renvoize, nengard, paul.poulain, sally.healey |
| Version: | Main | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6812 | ||
| Change sponsored?: | --- | Patch complexity: | --- |
| Documentation contact: | Documentation submission: | ||
| Text to go in the release notes: | Version(s) released in: | ||
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Hold fee setup screenshot
Hold fee charge screenshot Bug 3492: Begginings of moving holds_fee rule to circulation rules |
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Description
Chris Cormack
2010-05-21 01:11:21 UTC
patch available at: https://github.com/ptfs/Koha-PTFS May cause problem/incompatibility with #5872. A patch needs to be submitted based on master for this - and either a link right to the patch or an attached patch is necessary. Nicole The Harley integration project has been stalled for some time. This is still a feature request we see fairly often.. re-opening. This subject often comes up during system implementations - especially with our public libraries customer base. The hold fee is currently assigned to the patron category but many libraries have varying hold fees dependent upon item type. It is often thought that it would be more useful to have the hold fee linked to the item type instead of the patron category. For example: Hold on Adult book by Adult user = £1.00 Hold on Junior book by Adult user = £0.50 If the hold fee in the Adult patron category is set to £1.00, then they will be charged £1.00 for every hold they place - regardless if is an adult or a junior book. An alternative approach may be to adopt a solution similar to the 'rental fee discount' in the circulation rules. The rental fee is associated with the item type but the system administrators are able to manipulate the circ rules to allow for specific users to borrow items with rental fees at a reduced rate. Maybe we should just move it to the circulation rules? I think libraries will not be happy with either itemtype or patron category - until we have all the dimensions, things will always not work well for someone. I think moving this into the circ rules will work well. The downside is that there are already many attributes within the circ rules and there is the potential for libraries to maintain many more policies if they have a lot of combinations. In my experience though there shouldn't be too many variations. +1 Putting hold fees into the circulation rules would add a lot of flexibility. It would also be useful if ExpireReservesMaxPickUpDelayCharge (the charge for holds not collected) could pick up the hold fee in the circulation rule, rather than being a blanket charge across all patron categories and itemtypes. There's a separate bug for that here: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18195 - but I mention it in case it's something that can be explored at the same time. Looking into this... Moving to the circulation rules adds an additional question.. Whilst I can understand the want to add rules at itemtype and patron category levels.. would there also be a need to do this at a branch level too... and if that is the case.. which branch would govern the looking.. the pickup location, the items home library, the items current holding library?.. it opens a bit of a can of worms ;) Aha, GetReservesControlBranch deals with this for us already.. so it's a non-issue. (In reply to Martin Renvoize from comment #10) > Aha, GetReservesControlBranch deals with this for us already.. so it's a > non-issue. Humm.. actually, it doesn't. `GetReservesControlBranch` requires an item (for the case where `ReservesControlBranch` is set to 'ItemHomeLibrary'). However, at the time of reserve we don't always have that information yet (Bib level holds).. so for the case where we charge at the point of placing a hold and we allow biblio level holds.. we would explode. Rethink needed. Created attachment 119909 [details] [review] Bug 3492: Begginings of moving holds_fee rule to circulation rules This is just a starting point so far.. not complete yet I have updated the bug description per the discussion below. HoldFeeMode already allows to charge when placing a hold. |