Printing Receipts and Workslips and Emailing Checkout Receipts

Horizon lets you attach a printer to a workstation at your circulation desk to print circulation slips that describe library transactions. You can print two types of circulation slips: receipts for borrowers and workslips for staff members. Your system administrator sets up the types of receipts and workslips that print at each workstation. (For instructions on setting up these and other printer options, see “Using Circulation Slips and Receipts” in the Circulation Setup Guide.)

You print receipts to help borrowers keep track of their library transactions, such as items they have checked out or fines they have paid. You print workslips to notify library staff that an item needs special attention, such as a book that needs to be sent to the bindery when it is checked back in.

Additionally, if a borrower has an email address in the borrower record, you can email electronic checkout receipts in place of or in addition to printing hard copies if your administrator has allowed it in your location's record. The Allow Email Checkout Receipt setting in the borrower record determines whether Horizon should email checkout receipts to the borrower. For more information on the Allow Email Checkout Receipt setting, see Editing a Borrower Record .

Choose Tools, Change Receipt Options to display the Workstation Receipt Options window when the Checkout or Checkin/Request Processing window is open. You must mark the Allow Printing of Slips and Receipts box for any slips to print or for the hot keys to work.

If you want to be able to email checkout receipts, mark the Allow Emailing of Checkout Receipts box; the Allow Emailing of Checkout Receipts option in the receipt options and the Allow Email Checkout Receipts option in the borrower record must both be enabled for Horizon to email checkout receipts to that borrower. You can only modify the value of the Allow Emailing of Checkout Receipts option if an administrator has allowed the emailing of checkout receipts in your location's record.

Check with your system administrator before making any changes.

Horizon prints all print receipts automatically except group checkout receipts. You can use the menu bar or hot key combinations to print group receipts.

If your staff wants to print a group receipt but due date or checkin single receipts are set to print automatically, they can print a separate group receipt after the group checkout is complete.

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