Bug 6523

Summary: Enhancement: Patron Refund Limits & Expirations
Product: Koha Reporter: Helen Linda <helen.linda>
Component: Fines and feesAssignee: Kyle M Hall <kyle.m.hall>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: chughesman, gmcharlt, katrin.fischer, martin.renvoize
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Helen Linda 2011-06-21 15:06:23 UTC
Enhancement to allow libraries to set a refund limit on patron accounts. For example, many libraries have refund policies like "Replacement cost will be refunded to patron who returns a lost book that they paid for within one year." 

Ideally, this would be a setting that would warn/block when a refund is being issued for an item beyond the refund expiration date. So, if the libraries policy is like above, the refund limit would be set to 365 day/1 year. Beyond that future date, a refund attempt would trigger a warning or a block (which could be dependent on user permissions if also tied to that) that the refund period has expired.