Koha 3.0 lets the library define fines in money only. Some libraries needs to be able to set “debarred” fines.
When a patron returns books lately, he is debarred for some days.
The debar-fines will require :
addition of a new field in patrons table, enddebardate, that is filled with the end of the debarring.
the debar status will still be set by overdue rules.
when the patron returns the book, if the fines are set to “days”, then Koha will calculate how long the patron is debarred. X = today - returndate - grace time. The patron is then debarred and the enddebardate is set.
Calculation of the enddebardate. How the end of the debar date is calculated depends on a syspref too. It can be debardate = debardate+X (debarment cumulative), or debardate = max(debardate,today+X) (debarment not cumulative)
