Bug 3607

Summary: Lost item returned credit to borrower - but can't resolve credit
Product: Koha Reporter: David Schuster <dschust1>
Component: Fines and feesAssignee: Galen Charlton <gmcharlt>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: jwagner, katrin.fischer, veron
Version: Main   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
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Attachments: screen shot of problem 3.6

Description Chris Cormack 2010-05-21 01:12:48 UTC


---- Reported by dschust1@gmail.com 2009-09-14 03:26:16 ----

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3265 - asks for credit when lost item returned - it is creating the credit on the borrower account, but not changing the status to available.

This bug though happens because the credit on the account is not able to clear. In order to balance the borrowers account to Zero one has to create a manual invoice - which you then can't write off or pay because the credit remains.



---- Additional Comments From dschust1@gmail.com 2009-10-22 14:19:31 ----

(In reply to comment #0)
> http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3265 - asks for credit when lost item returned - it is creating the credit
> on the borrower account, but not changing the status to available.
> 
> This bug though happens because the credit on the account is not able to clear.
> In order to balance the borrowers account to Zero one has to create a manual
> invoice - which you then can't write off or pay because the credit remains.
> 

schuster	If it was paid already and then a credit is created I don't have a way to indicate I gave them the money back.
09:16	jwagner	schuster, yes, I've seen that problem. If the patron had paid the replacement cost in the meantime, then returned the book, there's a "credit" in the sense.
09:16	jwagner	Sorry, in the sense that the original charge is taken off the account. But it doesn't seem to know or care that it was paid in the meantime.
09:16	schuster	Yes but there isn't a drop down to say waive, pay etc... so you have to create a manual invoice to clear the record after you give the person money back.
09:17	schuster	When you run SQL's then the system things the borrower still has this outstanding credit.
09:17	schuster	things/thinks
09:17	jwagner	Yeah, that's a general Koha thing that needs work.



--- Bug imported by chris@bigballofwax.co.nz 2010-05-21 01:12 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 3607 at http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3607

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Comment 1 Nicole C. Engard 2011-11-07 16:32:02 UTC
Is this still an issue in 3.6?
Comment 2 David Schuster 2012-04-04 19:41:15 UTC
Created attachment 8885 [details]
screen shot of problem 3.6

This is a screen shot of the problem
Comment 3 Marc VĂ©ron 2016-01-05 16:17:57 UTC
Still valid?
Comment 4 Katrin Fischer 2019-03-07 22:26:37 UTC
I believe this has been fixed in recent versions (check AccountAutoReconcile system preference).