[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: E-Commerce and other features

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

Following up on the questions by Georgette, if anyone is using
E-commerce today with Evergreen, please let me know the following:

a) what you are using it for (presumably fines & fees but please verify)
b) who is handling your transactions (e.g. Paypal, authorize.net, etc)
c) was/is additional development required or can libraries use this
e-commerce provider with Evergreen 1.6 today

If anyone knows what other questions are relevant, let me know.

I'm asking so I can update this feature matrix (which everyone is
encouraged to check out and provide feedback about).

Koha/Evergreeen Feature Compare: http://os-ol.org/features
Feature Search "Find a Feature":  http://os-ol.org/features/index
Suggest a Feature: http://os-ol.org/features/suggest

Lori Ayre

P.S. If you'd like to help me with editing this info, please let me
know.  We'll need to figure out a way to keep it current if it is
going to be useful.

P.S.S. This same info is available on RSCEL at http://rscel.org/features...

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Brandon W. Uhlman
<brandon at branflakes.net> wrote:
> In earlier versions of Evergreen, there was a driver for handling credit
> card payments from authorize.net, an (apparently) well-known credit card
> payment manager in the US. That wouldn't work for us in Canada, so I haven't
> followed that part of the development; maybe someone south of the 49th would
> know more about that part of Evergreen's functionality.
>
> The beauty with open source software is that, if handling payments through a
> particular bank or payment processor is important to you, you can develop
> the necessary software to make Evergreen interface with that bank if you
> have the necessary expertise, or consider it part of the expense of
> migrating to have that functionality developed by outside professionals.
>
> ~B
>
> Quoting Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com>:
>
>> There is a fee for migration IF you hire someone to help you with
>> that!  Remember, none of the software costs money so you are only
>> paying for services you decide you need.  There are a number of
>> options for getting help with migration, conversion, implementation,
>> planning, etc (Equinox, ByWater, PTFS, Alpha-G to name the ones I know
>> of).
>>
>> You may have to pay your current vendor in order to extract your data
>> but you should talk to your current vendor about that.  Sometimes
>> there are workaround to that as well....
>>
>> I'll let someone else address your other questions about the features
>> and how well those particular features work.
>>
>> Lori
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Georgette Rogers
>> <GRogers at libertylakewa.gov> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> For anyone who has implimented the Evergreen system, is there a fee of
>>> any
>>> type?  Monthly, yearly, etc.  How was the transfer of data from one
>>> system
>>> to another?  How well does the system work for paying fines and using
>>> debit/credit cards?  Any issues with that.
>>>
>>> Thank you very much,
>>>
>>> Georgette
>>>
>>> Georgette Rogers
>>> Circulation Supervisor
>>> Liberty Lake Municipal Library
>>> 23123 E  Mission Ave
>>> Liberty Lake, WA 99019
>>> 509-435-0778
>>> 1-866-729-8507
>>
>
>
>
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