Dear all,
Czech library users would appreciate if it was possible to add money to
their Evergreen account using bank transfers (this way of making
payments is used by a number of public libraries in our country).
Our idea is that a CSV file from electronic banking (with a variable
symbol as a payment identifier, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_symbol, and a particular amount of
money) would be processed with a script that we would write. The script
output would call an OpenSRF function or insert data into a table.
If the first method (calling a function) was used, which OpenSRF
function should be called in order to enable adding money to a
particular user account (using a user account ID as a variable -- or
other identifier from the electronic banking data -- and an amount of
money)?
If the second method (inserting data into a table) was used, which are
the tables into which the data should be inserted and how should the
insertion be done?
Which of these methods would you recommend?
(Indeed, if there are any other options, we will be more than happy to
hear about them :-).)
A programmer would do this work for us (provided that we are awarded
grant money for this purpose -- the grant writing activities are just
underway) and we would definitely share the results of our work with the
Evergreen community.
Thank you in advance for any hints!
Linda and Vaclav Jansovi (and especially Eva Cerninakova from Jabok
Library who is about to submit the grant application :-)
