Jess,
Do you have a "smart" cash drawer or something that knows how much money
it has in it?
The kind of cash drawer that Galen and Aaron are talking about doesn't
do anything special except open when you tell it to. Such a device
doesn't have any information to share with the ILS.
There is no particular support in Evergreen today for smart cash
drawers, no, but new development may be feasible.
Lebbeous
On 05/31/2012 01:52 PM, Jessie Bunker-Maxwell wrote:
Galen and Aaron - thanks for the information - we do have Star TSP100
receipt printers and I saw your email from last year, Aaron, with the
suggestion to physically connect a cash drawer to the Star printer, etc.
That didn't seem like a true software interface, i.e., there is no data
connection between what happens on the cash drawer and payments received as
far as borrower data being updated in the Evergreen database but I
understand the intent of the physical connection as far as "securing"
access to the cash drawer. So, there's no real Evergreen Staff Client
interface then, yes?
Jess
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Aaron Zsembery<azsemb...@pls-net.org>wrote:
"Galen Charlton"<g...@esilibrary.com> wrote:
There is no defined interface, but there was some discussion [1] last
year on a possible workaround, involving use of certain models of
printers that can have cash drawers attached to them and using a
control code in the circ receipt as a signal to open the drawer. I
would be curious to know if anybody ever got that working.
[1]
http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/2011-June/thread.html#5035
Looks like you beat me to it, that is the thread I remembered.
Aaron Z
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