Question

Why doesn't the system take grace days into account when calculating fines?

The fine when returning an item seems to ignore the 4 days' grace.
The due date was on 05/04/2012 and the cash transaction created 10/04/2012 have fines although there are closing days in these period of time. The fine of 10/04/2012 seems to ignore the 4 days' grace.


The definition in tab16 is like this:

xxx50/tab/tab16:
! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4 5 16 7 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 2728
!!!!!-!!-!!-!!-!-!!!!!!!!-!!-!-!!!!-!!!!-!!!!!-!!!-!!!-!-!-!!!!!!!!-!-!!!!-!!!-!!!-!!-!!!!-!!!!!!!!!!-!!!!!!!!!!-!!!!!!!!!!-!!!-!-!!
16S 90 ## 53 + 00000014 04 A 2400 0000 00050 015 099 2 02 0000020.00 000 0 01

Answer

In this case the system is working correctly. Grace days are also counted against closing days.

The item was due on 05/04/2012 + 4 Grace days = due date 09/04/2012. The item is only returned on the 10th and therefore creates a fine for one day = 0.50 (instead of 2.50 which would have been the amount without grace days).

Category: Circulation (500)

Subject: Loans (500)

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013