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External files payment. Mark Huppert, ANU Library System & Web Coordinator mark.huppert@anu.edu.au. Background. Students / staff blocked if >$25 Can’t graduate Many appeals Payment is a problem if you’re interstate or overseas EFTPOS, credit, moncard, cheque or paying cash to F&BS
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External files payment Mark Huppert, ANU Library System & Web Coordinator mark.huppert@anu.edu.au
Background • Students / staff blocked if >$25 • Can’t graduate • Many appeals • Payment is a problem if you’re interstate or overseas • EFTPOS, credit, moncard, cheque or paying cash to F&BS • No funding available for new III module
The process • Partnership between Library and F&BS (Already in place: OneStopCashiering by Unilink Data Systems) • Inside Library: working out how to update patron records
The solution - overview • Hook into OneStop api for secure payments
The solution - how • F&BS receives data from a URL • F&BS passes data to the OneStop api • Library’s job: make the URL
The solution - URL • Get information by scraping My Millennium with javascript code • Give user boxes to tick and a button • User clicks button to “launch” the URL
Library admin process • Shared Outlook mailbox • Receipt comes back to mailbox • Circ manager checks mailbox frequently and clears records • Users can hurry it up by contacting loans desks or bringing a printed receipt • Receipt contains identifiers
Problems • Duplicate payments resulting from use of the browser “back button” • Occasionally receipts have incomplete information – unknown cause