Reinstating Fines

To reinstate a fine, the Fines/Bills: Reinstate fines circulation option must be set to "YES" and you must be assigned permission 314 (Reinstate Fine).

If your library has enabled the Reinstate Fines feature, you can reinstate fines that have already been removed from the patron's record. For example, you might want to reinstate a fine if you accidentally waived the fine or collected money for the wrong fine. You can reinstate all types of fines except the following:

any fine with a charge type of Manual
adjustment charges for billed rental items (charge type RentalX)
notice printing charges
any charge with a payment status of Adjustment

Reinstating Partially Paid Fines

Note the system writes a separate entry to the Fines Paid table for each partial, full, or waived payment made to the selected charge. As a result, the system reinstates only the portion of the charge associated with the Fines Paid table entry that you specified.

For example, if a patron has an original charge amount of $10.00 on their patron record, which is marked as partially paid by the patron ($4.00), followed by a waive of the fine remainder ($6.00), two entries are written to the Fines Paid table, one with a payment status of Partial Payment, and one with a payment status of Waive. If you choose to reinstate the Waive entry in the Fines Paid table, the system reinstates the waived amount ($6.00), not the original full fine amount ($10.00). To reinstate the full amount of the original charge, you must reinstate both the Waive and the Partial Payment entries associated with the original charge.

For more information on how the system removes charges from the patron record, see Collecting a Partial Payment.

To reinstate a fine:

View the fine you want to reinstate.
Choose the Reinstate Fine button. The Reinstate Fine dialog box prompts you:

This fine will be reinstated. Original fine payment information will be removed.

To reinstate the fine and remove the fine-payment information from the database, choose the Confirm button. To retain the fine-payment information displayed in the Paid Fine Detail dialog box, choose Cancel. If you choose Confirm, the system:
- Deactivates the Reinstate Fine button.
- Adds the fine back to the patron's record, using the current date as the assessed date.
- Assigns a new invoice number to the fine. The invoice number displays both the new invoice number and the previous invoice number. For example: Invoice: 6437 (previous invoice 6414). Note that if you reinstate the same fine multiple times, the previous invoice number reflects the invoice number of the fine that was most recently paid, not the original invoice number.
- Removes the reinstated entry from the patron's fines paid.

See also:: Fining and Penalizing Patrons; Fines Display