Kim,

Thank you for your kind offer, and apologies for taking so long to 
reply.  Life has been very busy of late.

I took a look at your repo on GitHub, and it all seems pretty 
straightforward for paying library fines.  We may take a look at 
implementing that.

The specific use case I have here is somewhat different, however.  Our 
CIO has asked if the IT department can use Alma to check out laptops to 
people.  And that's fine.  But she also wants to make each checkout 
contingent on the patron providing a credit card number, up front, to 
cover potential loss or damage to the laptop.  Basically, she wants to 
take the credit card number, stick it in the record somewhere, and sit 
on it.  If the laptop comes back fine, then the card number gets erased 
and no charge occurs.  If the laptop comes back damaged, or is never 
returned at all, then the patron is charged for repair or replacement.

I've been struggling with this because I don't think it's wise (or 
legal) to store people's credit card data in Alma itself.  Do you happen 
to know if Touchnet supports scenarios like this, where all that really 
happens is the card is taken down in case of loss?

Will Martin

P.S. My parents graduated from DU, so I'm fond of the institution even 
though I didn't attend it myself.

On 2021-03-18 01:38, Kim Pham wrote:
> Hi Will,
> 
> We worked with Ex Libris and Touchnet to set up credit card payments -
> https://github.com/ExLibrisGroup/exl-touchnet-connector. Feel free to
> get in touch with me if you'd like us to go through how we set it up.
> 
> Kim Pham, IT Librarian
> University of Denver
> 
> On Mar. 18, 2021 06:26, Will Martin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> [External Email From]: [log in to unmask]
> 
> We're in the process of helping our IT department get their inventory 
> of
> check-out-able laptops entered into our instance of Alma so that they
> can use it for tracking who's got what.  Our CIO has asked if there is
> some way we could get a credit card attached to the record of each
> check-out, which could be charged in the event that someone fails to
> return a laptop or it comes back broken.
> 
> Is that something Alma can do?  We've only just switched to it last 
> July
> and are still learning its idiosyncrasies.
> 
> Will Martin
> 
> Head of Digital Initiatives, Systems and Services
> Chester Fritz Library
> University of North Dakota
> 
> 701.777.4638