Re: [Mifos-users] Time of charge: Upfront

2010-08-30 Thread Kay Chau
Yeah I think this may be from trying to implement fees for both clients and loans. For clients, it makes sense to have an "upfront" fee versus a periodic fee. However for loans, there seems to be a different distinction which is what Gayl's getting at. I think for loan fees we should have a di

Re: [Mifos-users] Time of charge: Upfront

2010-08-30 Thread Kay Chau
> Currently, it will attach the fee to the client's next meeting schedule but > I believe we are working on a feature in the next version of Mifos that will > allow you to pay that fee before the scheduled charge (Kay, correct?). Yes, you will be able to pay fees before they are "due" in Mifos ...

Re: [Mifos-users] Branch progress report and GL report problems

2010-08-30 Thread Edward Cable
Gayl, Here's the direct link to the issue: http://mifosforge.jira.com/browse/MIFOS-3598 Ed -Original Message- From: Gayl Kennedy [mailto:gaylkenn...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 8:17 AM To: A good place to start for users or folks new to Mifos. Subject: Re: [Mifos-users] Br

Re: [Mifos-users] Branch progress report and GL report problems

2010-08-30 Thread Gayl Kennedy
Hi, our status is as follows: I have not been able to find the issue number provided by Jessica in http://mifosforge.jira.com. Am I looking in the wrong place? I can confirm that we are working with the default dB log in details so that is not the issue. It is also not solved by restarting the co

Re: [Mifos-users] Time of charge: Upfront

2010-08-30 Thread Ryan Whitney
Gayl, For fee's that you want to collect at time of application, I would charge a client fee instead, since this becomes before the loan (and if its an application fee, that must mean that the client's loan application can fail?). Currently, it will attach the fee to the client's next meeting sch

Re: [Mifos-users] Time of charge: Upfront

2010-08-30 Thread Ryan Whitney
And to answer, I think the rules for "upfront" make sense, but the name is confusing. As far as I've seen, upfront is a one time fee that attaches itself to the next payment, which could be useful for apply fee's in the middle of a loan (especially fees for late payments, etc). It may be called u

Re: [Mifos-users] Time of charge: Upfront

2010-08-30 Thread Gayl Kennedy
Thanks Ryan.  Why does mifos provide 3 options: to pay upfront pay at disbursement or to pay at time of first loan repayment? That does not seem to be very logical. When we say upfront we mean they pay it at time of application so we will have to work around this. Regards Gayl On 27/08/2010, Rya