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Alma Invoice Batch Delete
The purpose of this software is to automatically delete batches of In Review invoices from Alma. These instructions will walk you through the process of setting up your computer to run the software, setting up a user in Alma to delete the invoices, and deleting the invoices. Configuration of your computer These instructions assume that…

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Integrating with Priority‘s Financial Management Module for Invoice Payments
IntroductionThis blog will show how to integrate financial payments from Alma Acquisitions to Priority's Financial Management module.We will focus on the payment of invoices. Note that it is also possible to pay POs (Purchase Orders) via this same integration (and not only invoices).Details about Priority‘s Financial Management module can be found at Priority for Financials.While…

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Batch invoicing in ALMA
Invoicing is an important step of ALMA Acquisition. The correct invoices help managing Acquisition data and tracking the payment history. After the purchasing step, receiving physical items step or activating electronic titles step, the invoicing step jumps on the stage. There were 3 ways to process the invoices, which encompass creating invoices via EDI, creating…

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Managing online payments with Symfony and PayFlow Link
By Ginger Bidwell, Clint Osborne and Mike Hagedon  (University of Arizona)Our payments application allows our customers to pay for technology services and fines online through Alma.Moving from Millennium to AlmaOriginally we used Millennium for our library catalog. It allowed customers to pay for their late or lost fines. By setting up special user accounts, we…

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Using the Invoice Attachments API
Many institutions have integrated Alma with their campus ERP system. Using the file-based or API-based integration, it's possible to send invoices which are ready for payment to the ERP system to be processed, and to receive payment confirmation back when the invoice has been paid or rejected. In some cases, the ERP system requires that…

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Alma - ERP invoices integration using APIs
The Alma acquisitions process includes ordering and receiving materials from vendors, which involves the handling of both orders and invoices by vendors. Invoices are handled outside of the library's scope, usually by the institution's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Invoices must therefore be exported from Alma to the institution's financial system. Institutions that want to…

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Integration with institutional finance
Our integration with the institutional finance office is to send printed & signed invoices (vouchers for payment in Voyager-speak). We use a perl script which grabs the xml output of the ERP export invoices for payment job, formats each invoice into a basic .rtf format accepted by Finance and then emails it to selected addresses.…

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Alma invoices with PeopleSoft
We use PeopleSoft as our finance system. When vendor invoices are ready for payment we produce an XML file of invoices for payment. We use a perl script to convert the invoices from Alma format into PeopleSoft required format. In https://github.com/briandwo/alma_to_psfeed you will find: The perl script Alma invoice xml sample PeopleSoft invoice sample Alma…

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Exporting Invoices and Importing Payments with Banner and Alma
On the surface of it, integrating Alma and Banner for invoices and payments is relatively straightforward. Alma has well-defined XML formats for these integrations, and as long as either your campus IT staff can parse Alma's XML into a format appropriate for Banner, or you can do this for them, setting up either is very…

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Alma invoices for FinanceOne
Context Our University uses the Finance One accounting package to pay invoices. The Library uses Alma to manage vendor transactions. When vendor invoices are ready for payment we produce an XML file of invoices for payment. Previously we used a perl program to extract Voyager invoices ready for payment into CSV files, one for local…

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