Standing Orders RFC

Rationale

Many libraries, academic libraries in particular, place special orders with their vendors called “standing orders”. In contrast to existing orders in Koha, which are placed and received once, a standing order is kept open and received many times.

This is often used for items that are replaced frequently, such as law codes, but not on a fixed schedule; thus, the existing serials integration is inadequate. Also, the price of these items may not be known in advance.

Desired Functionality

A new kind of standing order basket, with the following behavior:

• Items can be received without the basket being closed.
• Items can be received without their price being known in advance.
• Creation of items upon receive customizable per-basket.