It would be nice if there's an ability in Koha to waive fines/fees in a batch. This is part of a regular workflow for libraries, especially those who regularly purge patron accounts.
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If it existed, I would definitely use this function! This would make our semi-annual patron cleanup faster and more efficient.
My consortium also needs this functionality!
+1 We would also use this feature multiple times a year.
If this existed I would LOVE to have this function as I've finally gotten clearance to clear out old accounts with or without charges past a certain date. We would use this feature once a year, I believe, but having the ability to do it ourselves vs. sending in a ticket to ByWater every year would be preferred. Thank you!
We would also use this if available. We recently change dour policy to waive fines/fees that are older than 5 years, and have over 2,500 accounts that are eligible for fines/fees to be waived but we have to review them individually. Also, we're going to start deleting accounts that have been expired for more than 5 years, so this functionality would also be helpful for that process.
We would love this for our yearly expired patron purge.
Our library would love this for our yearly expired patron purge
This feature would be very helpful with the yearly patron purge.
+1 We have a policy to do an annual writeoff of bills more than 7 years old. It would be nice to have options similar to "Batch patron deletion and anonymization," with selections similar to those used by the cronjob writeoff_debts.pl
There's a cron job to write off old fines (not waive). We've had it scheduled for a couple of years to run on the 1st of every month, writing off fines that are 84 months (7 years) or more years old. We had a couple of hick-ups getting it rolling, but it's been running smoothly for at least a year now. /misc/cronjobs/writeoff_debts.pl I had ByWater clear the first batch of old accounts before we scheduled the cron to run regularly due to the very large number of old bills we had in the system, but haven't needed to go back to them for data services since then. The cronjob handles it for us.