[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Any ideas how to include payments from external sources into Evergreen?

[Cerninakova Eva]

Hi all,

I wonder whether some of you have any idea concerning possibility of adding
money to patrons account in Evergreen using bank transfers (as described in
Linda´s email below) -  I think it would be quite useful to see the problem
from the different points of view.
If you have any recommendations or ideas, please, let me know as soon as
possible (we are preparing  the grant application to get some money for the
solution and the grant application deadline is approaching quite fast ;-))

Thanks a lot

Eva




2013/11/10 Linda Jansova <skolkova at chello.cz>

>  Dear all,
>
> Czech library users would appreciate if it was possible to add money to
> their Evergreen account using bank transfers (this way of making payments
> is used by a number of public libraries in our country).
>
> Our idea is that a CSV file from electronic banking (with a variable
> symbol as a payment identifier, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_symbol, and a particular amount of
> money) would be processed with a script that we would write. The script
> output would call an OpenSRF function or insert data into a table.
>
> If the first method (calling a function) was used, which OpenSRF function
> should be called in order to enable adding money to a particular user
> account (using a user account ID as a variable – or other identifier from
> the electronic banking data – and an amount of money)?
>
> If the second method (inserting data into a table) was used, which are the
> tables into which the data should be inserted and how should the insertion
> be done?
>
> Which of these methods would you recommend?
>
> (Indeed, if there are any other options, we will be more than happy to
> hear about them :-).)
>
> A programmer would do this work for us (provided that we are awarded grant
> money for this purpose – the grant writing activities are just underway)
> and we would definitely share the results of our work with the Evergreen
> community.
>
> Thank you in advance for any hints!
>
> Linda and Vaclav Jansovi (and especially Eva Cerninakova from Jabok
> Library who is about to submit the grant application :-)
>



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