[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Migrating bills/fines to Evergreen

[Thomas Berezansky]

I believe if you migrate the correct due date and fine information  
then you run the fine generator cron job you can indeed let Evergreen  
fill in the fines themselves, provided you don't fill in the stop  
fines reason. That won't, however, help for things that are returned  
already in your existing system but still have owed fines (because you  
would be setting a checkin date and such).

As for generating bills, a lot of systems already do that....though  
most seem to be using various forms of home-grown tools in the process  
due to differences in billing across libraries and consortia.

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


Quoting Olli-Antti Kivilahti <olli-antti.kivilahti at jns.fi>:

> Sprinting into a spring's spring!
>
> One thought came up about migrating the bills/fines database.
> Will Evergreen automatically calculate the correct amount of fines for
> late checkins, if we migrate the checkout-data to Evergreen's
> action.circulation and make sure we fill columns "recurring_fine",
> "fine_interval", "xact_start", "max_fine"?
> Can we somehow exploit Evergreen's fining mechanisms to help generate
> bills for our patrons?
> Generally we are thinking about the challenge of migrating all our data
> to EG. Patron data, Bibliographic data, copy data, serials data, ongoing
> acquisitions data, bills/fines data, holds data, circulation data. Lots
> of work, maybe too much.
>
> --
> Olli-Antti Kivilahti
> Open Library 2013
> Library of Joensuu
>