RE: Pharos Storing Patron Money

["Bill Hudson" <bhudson at lancasterlibraries dot org>]

Hi Peter,
It is my understanding that until recently, Millennium could not keep track
of patron credits or debits that were generated by a third party application
such as Pharos. I believe the new E-Commerce module (not sure if it is
available yet) is supposed to allow you to do that.

To allow you to inject information into the patron record, you need an API
which allows third party software to put information directly in the table
that stores the patron info. The Patron API which allows you to pull data
but not push it is the only thing available at the moment (as far as I
know.) Hopefully III's migration away from their current database to MySQL
will allow us more control in this area.

Possibly someone else on the list has more info on the e-commerce module.
That is just what I remember from IUG.
Bill

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Bill Hudson, Manager
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Library System of Lancaster County
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Lancaster, PA 17601    USA
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Email: bhudson at lancasterlibraries dot org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org [mailto:innopac-
> bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Peter Caton
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:56 PM
> To: IUG INNOPAC List
> Subject: Pharos Storing Patron Money
> 
> A few weeks ago I posted a message inquiring whether Innovative could
> store money on a patron's account.
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> My post only received one response- and the response basically echoed my
> question as to how Innovative could accomplish this.
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> I am wondering if anyone can explain why Innovative cannot store money
> at this time?  And if Innovative can, how to set this up-
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> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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> 
> Peter W. Caton
> 

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