San Marcos vs. Bursar Integration: - Ultimately San Marcos doesn't want to be accepting payments in the library
- Benefit of San Marcos model: fine/fee is in Alma, can be used to continue to block user privileges if TOU is configured to
- San Marcos uses Analytics output report (available as of 5PM previous day)
- Alternate method to identify users for fines/fees -export user accounts that have changed in 24 hours
- Used in production w/DCB
- Could leverage and do additional queries to use this
- 2 additional phases for San Marcos model to be completed
- Will need separate eMarket as a backup for same day fine/fee transactions
- e.g., someone incurs fee at noon, wants to pay immediately, can't be done w/existing PeopleSoft integration model
- If borrowing privileges are not affected by fines/fees, no eMarket backup essential
- How to handle community borrowers?
- At Stanislaus, borrowing privileges are suspended
- Paper form w/PeopleSoft details (user details, fine amount, and PeopleSoft account), send borrower to bursar's office
- At San Marcos, separate eMarket for non-campus people, posts to library account in PeopleSoft in student financial services
- Library itself does not manage transactions
- Native bursar is much less work
- Library has no involvement in fines/fees
- Alma dumps data to PeopleSoft, no payment info gets sent back to Alma, fines/fees are closed in Alma
San Marcos PeopleSoft model update: - Not yet in production
- Successfully uploaded data from Alma to PeopleSoft, including line item charge
- Road block when working with PeopleSoft side
- Difficult to automate ingestion of file from Alma to PeopleSoft
- Haven't yet developed query for PeopleSoft to find payments and pay back into Alma (not road black, just hasn't been developed yet)
San Marcos use of eMarket: - Currently in production, user enters any amount owed manually, funds get paid directly to library account
- To look at Alma > CashNet integration as a backup
Sacramento use of CashNet/T2: - T2 contains payment portal - payment protocol gets sent to CashNet via SmartPay - may be written into the Sacramento CashNet
- Lauren Magnuson (Unlicensed) - how many SmartPay interfaces are available for each campus?
- Still would need a shopping cart system outside of Primo/Alma intermediary between Primo (analogous to eCommerce model from Millennium)
- Lauren Magnuson (Unlicensed) to follow up w/Russel at Sacramento (Christian to provide contact information)
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