Generate patron barcodes outside of self-registration
Polaris should be able to generate barcodes outside of self-registration. Sometimes you want to generate barcodes without relying on a physical card that already has a barcode printed on it. Polaris already can do this because it does it for self-registration cards. So it should be able to occur on demand.
Alvin
shared this idea
-
Sujesh
commented
We are also running into this problem as we prefer patrons to use digital cards and discourage the use of plastic cards. Now that we are moving into Polaris lack of this feature means we have to resort to issuing physical cards as a standard practice. As Alvin pointed out a barcode is generated when self registering so the capability is already there. Considering the number of libraries trying to go cardless it would be great we get this basic feature.
-
Emma Olmstead-Rumsey
commented
We would love this feature! More and more patrons don't even want the piece of plastic, just a number.