Hi,
I am currently testing Mifos to see whether we could use it for a
microcredit project in Senegal. I managed to install it locally on a
virtual machine, and it works very well.
First of all : thanks for the awsome work !! It works very well, and was
surprisingly easy to install.
I already tested the system a bit, and have a few questions to help my
understand how Mifos works and to help me evaluate how well Mifos would fit
our needs.
The questions are below, please feel free to answer only to some of them.
Best regards and thanks in advance,
Olivier Dalang
t: +41 78 758 49 75
m: [email protected]
Association urbaMonde
rue des Savoises 15
1205 Genève
Switzerland
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## 1. Transaction reciepts
On the transaction tab of the loan details page, there is a "view reciept"
button next to each transaction, but I never saw a "upload reciept"...
field when disbursing a loan or making repayments.
How does this work ? Is there a suggested strategy to keep evidence about
transactions ?
(By the way, when I click on "view reciept", I get an error
"{"developerMessage":"The request caused a data integrity issue to be fired
by the...}", see questions 4. below)
## 2. Translation
I'll be using Mifos in French. It's great to have an existing translation,
but it is incomplete and contains some mistakes. I'm willing to contribute
to translation, and I saw it's easy using translatewiki.net.
Is it possible to use the new contributed translation directly in my
in-production system ? (or can I download translatewiki.net's translation
as locale-fr.json easily ?)
Alternatively, is it possible to edit locale-fr.json directly, and still
upstream my modifications ? (through pull request)
## 3. Fees for the group
In our setup, we have a fee/interest (5% flat) that is payed from the
client to the group (a percentage of the amount). That fee stays in the
group's savings, which is in most of the cases not managed by us (but
rather in the group's already existing saving accounts).
Still, it would be nice if this fee could be included in the repayment
schedule.
Is there a way to do this ?
I tried to create a fee (per installment, 5% flat). It works, but its
payment is not separated from the principal payment, while it should go to
a separate account.
## 4. Javascript errors
I noticed some javascript errors and UI malfunctions (for instance date
widgets not working, some UI elements like "Interest method" in "Create
Loan Product" not appearing, "create payment type" missing the submit
button, date appearing as NaN undefined 0NaN in certain navigators, submit
button ...).
Even if it is the same version, those error appear on my local
installation, but not on the online demo. Any idea why ?
It also seems some errors are navigator-dependant, is there a recommended
navigator to use Mifos ?
It also seems some date formats and/or languages trigger errors...
Should I report all those errors directly on github's issue tracker ?
## 5. Roles
Are there some typical roles permissions examples ? We'll be needing roles
like "manager" (who can approve loans and clients...), "agent" (who can
prepare new clients and loans, who can register payments etc.). I'm a bit
overwhelmed by all the checkboxes at this point.
Also, am I right understanding Mifos user's capability is limited to his
Office ?
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