Receipt Printing Properties

On the Defaults tab, you can set defaults to configure receipt/slip printing.

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Subtotal by Bill Reason — Select this check box to print subtotals of fines paid by bill reason at the bottom of the receipt.

For example, a patron paid $8.00 for two overdue bills and $1.00 for a charge fee. Subtotals can print similar to the following at the bottom of the receipt.

OVERDUE: $8.00
CHARGE: $1.00
Total Paid: $9.00

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Do the following to specify the receipt header, receipt fields, and receipt footer.

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Receipt Header — Specify the receipt header (lines of text at the beginning of the slip) using the String List Gadget.

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Receipt Fields — Specify the fields (text that displays on the slip) to print on the receipt using the Receipt Fields Gadget.

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Receipt Footer — Specify the receipt footer (lines of text at the end of the slip using the String List Gadget.

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Allow Date Formatting Description — This optional property specifies whether descriptive text prints on the receipt to explain the date format that your library uses. The Date Format Description box is a free-text field where you can type up to 40 characters of descriptive text.

For example, patrons may be confused as to whether the date notation of 12/11/2008 means December 11, 2008, or November 12, 2008. You can type Month/Day/Year in the Date Format Description box so the date information will display similar to the following on the receipt.

Pickup by:
12/11/2008
Month/Day/Year

Due Date and Charge Slips

The following options may be available for due date and charge slip configurations:

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Print a separate date due slip for each item—Prints one date due slip for each item that the user checks out. This option is exclusive to due date slips. By default, this check box is cleared.

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Print list of patron’s current checkouts—Prints a list of the items the patron has checked out. This option is exclusive to due date slips. By default, this check box is cleared.

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Print checkout totals—Prints a count of items checked out during a session and a total count of current items checked out. This option is exclusive to due date slips. By default, this check box is cleared.

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Print sum of checked out item prices—Prints the sum of the prices of all items that display on the checkout slip. This option can be useful for showing patrons the money they save by checking out books from your library instead of buying them. This option is available to both due date slips and charge slips.

The default label for this on the slip is "Total price of checked out items", but your library system administrator can customize this label to be whatever your library or libraries want. By default, this check box is cleared.

Other options configured for the slip can affect the total price that WorkFlows prints in this field. For example, if the slip is configured to print all current checkouts, then the total price for all current checkouts will be reflected in the sum printed in this field.

Note: Items without prices will not be factored into this total. Additionally, this field will not display on slips if none of the checked out items have prices higher than 0 in their item records.

Note: This option is only available to configure within the Checkout wizard properties. However, the Checkout helper (which can be accessed from other wizards, such as the Renew User wizard) inherits this property from the Checkout wizard properties. Because of this, item prices from renewals can be included in the total on the slip when a checkout occurs during a renewal transaction.

Offline Client

The following option may be available for offline client receipt/slip configuration.

Select Print Number of Items Returned to print a list of the items the patron has checked in. By default, this check box is cleared.