Excuse Fines

The Excuse Fines sub-tab of the Update Patrons page lets you globally delete fines and refunds.

You can:

• Delete library, textbook, patron, resource fines or refunds by grade level or graduation year.
  
• Excuse fines of all types, such as Damaged, Overdue, Lost and User-defined.

  Note: Consider excusing fines at the end of the school year if you do not expect to collect any more money.

  
  
• Delete fines and refunds for just your patrons, or include patrons of other schools who borrowed your materials.

  Note: Resource-only sites do not have patron fines.

• Limit the fines or refunds you delete to a certain range of values.
  
  

Important: Excusing or deleting fines cannot be undone. This process only deletes fines assessed at your school.

To excuse or delete fines:

1. Select Admin > Update Patrons > Excuse Fines sub-tab.

   

2. Use this table to fill in the fields:

   Use this field	to...
   My site's outstanding	Select fines you want to delete.
   With a value from ___ to ___	Limit the deletion to a range of fine amounts you enter in the fields.
   Associated with	Use the drop-down to either: Delete fines for any patron with fines at your site. Delete fines for only your patrons.
   With	Limit the fine deletion to patrons by grade or graduation date. From the drop-down, select either: Grad Year, and enter the year in the next field. Grade Level, and enter the level in the next field.

3. Click Delete.
4. When the confirmation message appears, click Yes. The Job Manager displays the Excuse/Delete Fines job.

   Note: Destiny displays Fine Deleted or Refund Deleted in each patron's Fine History for fines and refunds deleted through this process.

Job Summary

For each Excuse/Delete Fines job, Destiny generates a Job Summary showing a total count of fines and refunds that were deleted or excused. It lists each, including:

• Fine or refund type
• Amount
• Patron name
• Patron barcode.