Re: [Mifos-users] [Mifos-developer] Issue in creating Loan for Clients who are moved from different Centers Mifos 1.6.1.

2011-02-09 Thread Keith Woodlock
Nayan, what is the exact error message that is gives you? is it 'This is an invalid Disbursement date.'? Does the customer already have an active loan of the same type (loan product)? Are you using any product mixes (see Admin area)? Keith. On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Nayan Ambali wrote:

Re: [Mifos-users] [Mifos-developer] Issue in creating Loan for Clients who are moved from different Centers Mifos 1.6.1.

2011-02-09 Thread Nayan Ambali
Hi Keith, You mean, action_date in customer_schedule, one of the value is 17-Feb-2011 (first entry). But still not allowing to disburse on 17th. Thanks Nayan Ambali On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Keith Woodlock wrote: > Nayan, > > its seems like a bug. You should be able to duburse on 17th.

Re: [Mifos-users] [Mifos-developer] Issue in creating Loan for Clients who are moved from different Centers Mifos 1.6.1.

2011-02-09 Thread Keith Woodlock
Nayan, its seems like a bug. You should be able to duburse on 17th. if you have access to the database directly, you can query the customer_schedule table for the client to see what 'scheduled meeting dates' exist. There should be one for 17th but if not (first is 24th or something like that), th

Re: [Mifos-users] Some domain questions around centers and groups.

2011-02-09 Thread Gayl Kennedy
Hi Keith There are different ways used in MFIs but the one I was associated with worked as follows: For a client in a group they look for 10% collateral to be held in the clients saving account for the duration of the loan term. For a client not in a group they look for 40-50% collateral to be hel

Re: [Mifos-users] Some domain questions around centers and groups.

2011-02-09 Thread Keith Woodlock
Gayl, Nayan, Thanks for your points. I have summarised details so far as follows: MFIs/NGOs exist to provide financial services for clients - client may want to use these services due to: - they are very poor and have no collateral and can't getting banking services from other sources

[Mifos-users] Issue in creating Loan for Clients who are moved from different Centers Mifos 1.6.1.

2011-02-09 Thread Nayan Ambali
Hi, I am facing this issue and able to reproduce in Windows and Ubuntu environment with Mifos 1.6.1 Reproduce issue. Assume, application has minimum one branch, minimum one loan officer and Biweekly loan product System(Server) Date : 2-Feb-2011, create Center with name "Even Thursday", freq 2wee

Re: [Mifos-users] Some domain questions around centers and groups.

2011-02-09 Thread Gayl Kennedy
Hi Keith at the MFI in Nigeria we had some centres which were small, 4-8 people which we treated as one group but others were much larger with 20-30 people and they were divided into groups of about 5 people which guaranteed each others repayments. In mifos for the small centres we still set them u

Re: [Mifos-users] Some domain questions around centers and groups.

2011-02-09 Thread Nayan Ambali
Hi Keith, >For larger MFIs, would it be fair to assume that they would have >branches that not only target rurual areas but also urban areas where >the notion of a 'center' would not be used (i.e. the groups or >individual clients come into the branch directly)? Yes(at least in India). they targe

Re: [Mifos-users] Some domain questions around centers and groups.

2011-02-09 Thread Keith Woodlock
Vivian, Ryan, Thanks for your replies. They were interesting. I have started to capture these details at http://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/display/MIFOS/Microfinance+Customer+and+Domain+Knowledge+Center Some follow up questions concentrating on Center for now: > Q1: What is a center? > Centers ar