Separate damaged and processing in billing line items

[Terran McCanna]

Wish List: When you use the Mark Item Damaged function, it adds the item cost plus the damaged item processing fee (if relevant) together into a new bill. It would be nice if the detailed bill screen would separate the item cost and the processing fee into two separate line items on the bill.

[April Durrence (april-durrence)]

I agree with Terran. One of our newly migrated libraries recently found this to be a problem because they pay the damaged charge for the item to one agency and the processing fee to another agency and I could not separate the two billings in a report, as they are treated as one bill for damaged materials. By contrast, cost of the item and the processing fee are treated as two separate bills for lost items. It seems that the cost of the item and processing fee should be billed separately for damaged items, for the sake of consistency, as well as for clearer accounting. Since the full details screen does not include any mention of the processing fee, staff would have to check library settings and/or item price to realize that a processing fee was included. Not easy for front line staff to do. We are currently using version 3.3.4.