| | | - Question: who tracks payments?
- If bursar export, library does not handle / track money
- If custom payment interface, library tracks money
- Considerations of models:
- Bursar integration: library "washes its hands" - money is owed to the university
- Library-specific custom payment portal:
- More information needed: handling PCI requirements (payment card industry requirements)
- Paperwork to show that information is secure
- Ian Chan (Unlicensed) to investigate Drupal module which uses CashNet
- Primo Back Office setup:
- Add "additional links" to "My Account" area of Primo
- link type for "payment" - similar to payment module for eCommerce - point to application that handles payment
- Sends userID to custom interface that pulls userID, then pulls fines/fees based upon userID
- Local process that is linked to - gathers what fines are available on the account and send the information on to PayPal
- Setting in CashNet to tell CashNet where to go back to after fines have been paid, processing scripts sends data to Alma to indicate that fines have been paid
- eMarkets model
- $3500/yr (unless unlimited eMarket license)
- Potentially recommend that campuses purchase / take advantage of eMarket for year1, while custom interface is developed
- Downside - when they go into the CashNet portal, the amount they need to pay is not specified. Shows as $0 balance due
- When payment received, email is sent to circ inbox, and someone has to apply the payment to Alma and release payment in PeopleSoft
- to potentially automate - grab data out of email and send to Alma Fines/Fees API
- More information needed: Accounting / reconciliation fines/fees and payment trails
- When Sacramento used eCommerce model, daily totals sent to campus financials - entered into CashNet / automatically pushed into PeopleSoft in nightly job (at Sacramento for parking, no longer need receipts as they are sent to PeopleSoft automatically) -
- More information needed: Fines to go general fund, replacement costs are kept by the library - Can CashNet understand which fines go to which fund?
- With parking T2 - there's an identifier for the type of transaction
- bill by type of charge - fine/fee vs. replacement
- Lauren Magnuson (Unlicensed) ask CashNet: Alma differentiates between transaction type (fine vs. replacement) - would CashNet be able to communicate the charge type that was paid back to Alma?
- Lauren Magnuson (Unlicensed) reach out to Delfin at Stanislaus - student financial services
- Present options at Access Services meeting next Wednesday to discuss pros/cons of each model
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