Price should be linked to the copy record on a purchase order

[Don Butterworth]

Acquisitions - Version 2.6.0

When purchasing from Amazon, we often acquire 2 copies of the same title from two different used book vendors. One copy may cost $50 while another copy of the same title may cost $55. Evergreen doesn't allow for different prices for the same title on the Purchase Order because the price is tied to the Bibliographic record instead of the copy record.

In other words, currently two copies of the same title MUST be the same price if on one PO line.

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

We discussed this issue at an acq meeting this morning. We don't come across a need for separate copy prices in 99% of cases, but the Amazon scenario does come up from time to time. Our acq staff have handled it by adding distinct lineitems for each copy.

If development were done to add copy-specific prices, we would want to make sure prices can still be entered on the main PO screen when all copies for the lineitem are the same price.