In Folio, fee/fine information is stored as accounts and actions. An account is the umbrella object that is created with a particular charge. An action is always associated with an account, and is where transactions related to a particular charge are stored.
Accounts
Accounts are where the core charge is held and created when a fee/fine is created and applied to a user account.
- The associated JSON schema is accountdata.json (https://github.com/folio-org/mod-feesfines/blob/master/ramls/accountdata.json)
- An individual account record has a required userId - that's how it's linked to the user record
- An individual user may have zero, one, or more accounts - e.g., if they've never had a fine charged, they would have no account records.
- Accounts have feeFineId and ownerId - this links to the fee fine owner, and the type of fee/fine that was charged. Types of fines are configurable for manual charges in Settings → Users → Fee Fines. For automatic charges, they are configured in FOLIO itself. Types of fee/fines in the system can be retrieved via an API call (GET /feefines)
- Note that as of Honeysuckle, a materialTypeId and itemId must be provided, even if you are not trying to tie a fee/fine to an individual item. When creating a fee/fine, you will have to set a value for those attributes no matter what. The FOLIO UI uses "0" as a value if no item is provided. See UIU-2070 - Creating a manual fee/fine requires an itemId and materialTypeId even if the manual fee/fine is not being associated with an item OPEN for the status of this issue.
- Hardcoded attributes (with allowed values) include:
- Status
- Open
- Closed
- Payment Status
- Outstanding
- Paid partially
- Paid fully
- Waived partially
- Waived fully
- Transferred partially
- Transferred fully
- Refunded partially
- Refunded fully
- Cancelled as error
- Status
Actions
Actions are where transactions are kept on the account
- The associated JSON schema is feefineactiondata.json (https://github.com/folio-org/mod-feesfines/blob/master/ramls/feefineactiondata.json)
- Accounts will always have at least one action, created when the account was created.
- If an account has been paid, it will have at least two actions - the one created that shows the initial charge (with a type of "Outstanding",) and then the one that resolves the charge ("______ fully").
- A feefineactiondata record has a required attribute of accountId which links it to the account.
- Hardcoded attributes (with allowed values) include
- TypeAction
- Outstanding
- Paid partially
- Paid fully
- Waived partially
- Waived fully
- Transferred partially
- Transferred fully
- Refunded partially
- Refunded fully
- Cancelled as error
- Staff info only
- TypeAction