Bursar Export: Option to not close out fines/fees upon eport
It would be useful if the bursar export job to export fines and fees had an option to keep fines and fees active in the Alma user record upon export. Some libraries want to keep fines and fees active even as fines and fees owed are communicated to a bursar's office. Because it's possible through the fine/fee payment API for a custom solution to be developed to communicate fine/fee payment back to Alma, some libraries would choose to use a bursar export integration to export fines and then develop a custom solution to send payment information back to Alma to close out balances. This would enable libraries to use bursar payment while also using TOU that block users from circulation activity based on active fine/fee balances owed.
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The June 2018 Release includes a new option: You can now import files from a bursar system to update Alma on the transactions that were exported from Alma to the bursar system.
See here for more details https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/010_2018/07_June_2018/Alma_June_2018_Release_Notes/04Fulfillment_-_June_2018_Enhancements#Import_Data_from_a_Bursar_System