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I'd like to request a modification/addition to the finance charge system. We are working with an office that uses flat rate billing charges as opposed to finance charges. How feasible would it be to add a radio control to the "Finance Charges" window, with the APR being one choice and a flat rate being another? Since the logic of the finance charge system seems to just calculate the charges based on the APR given and then insert adjustments to each account accordingly, it seems like it would be pretty straightforward to side-step that calculation process and just use a flat rate instead. I assume there would be some supporting changes needed as well, like a separate adjustment type to differentiate them, as well as possibly renaming the control to reflect the added functionality. There would probably need to be some modification to the undo utilities as well, to allow undoing of the "billing charge" adjustments.

Since there doesn't seem to be any "history" other than the fact that the finance charge adjustments can be filtered out from other adjustments, I'm hoping this is something we can get added to the program.

Thanks.

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It's a reasonable request, but it's competing with hundreds/thousands of other requests. If there is enough support for it, it will happen.

I think I'm going to try to implement it myself. It will involve factoring the calculation logic into its own method, reorganizing the form for the new option, adding an entry to the preference table, and I'm sure a few other things I'm not thinking of right now.

Also, I'm sorry for posting a duplicate. I didn't see the prior post about almost exactly the same thing!

In any case, if this is something you'd be willing to work with me on, I should be able to implement it and test it pretty heavily on my end before submitting any patches.

Oh, and quick question: for the GUI, I assume you just use the designer?

Yes. And you are right that it's something you could safely tackle.