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The two basic billing types in Evergreen are Grocery (manually applied) and Circulation (automatically applied). Both billing types may have a variety of billing sub-types available.
Evergreen has two different mechanisms for billing patrons: manual and automatic.
Grocery Bills: The manual method of billing a patron is known as a grocery bill. These can be applied at any amount for any charge. Libraries that have regular bill types, such as for copies or lost card fees, may request to have a sub-type created that can be applied as a grocery bill.
Common sub-types of grocery bills include the following, but libraries may request any label they need:
Circulation Bills: The automatic method of billing a patron is known as a Circulation bill. Any bill that is applied as the result of a transaction is classified as a Circulation bill. Circulation bills may not be applied manually in any way, but can be triggered by the following actions, depending on library policy: