Circulation workflows for using your ILS in parallel with WMS

Find how your ILS and WMS relate to each other when conditions in this document are met.

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This document explains how your ILS and WMS relate to each other when these conditions are met:

Note: The most common reason to run parallel systems is that you chose not to migrate your circulation data from your ILS to WMS.

Check ins	All check ins would go through both systems, old (ILS) before new (WMS) to satisfy existing holds in the old system before holds placed in the new system.
Salidas	All new checkouts would take place in WMS.
Billing Notices	Notices would be produced and sent via both systems.
Fines	Patrons with fines would not be prevented from checking out in WMS.
Hold Requests	All new hold requests would take place in WMS.
Item Status Information	Accurate item status information must be confirmed by looking in both systems.
New Patrons	You will manually synchronize all new patrons registered between the time you sent your patron data to OCLC and production use date of WMS. After you begin production use of WMS, all new patrons will be added to WMS only.
Overdue Notices	Notices would be produced and sent via both systems.
Patron Accounts	Patrons will have to monitor both old (ILS) and new (WMS) accounts for accurate display of the status of their checked out items, hold requests, and fines.

After a period of time, perhaps a month, you would manually copy any remaining checkouts, holds, and fines from your old ILS to WMS.

No further activity would take place in the old system and patron access to the old ILS OPAC would be blocked.