The concept of bill ownership plays an important role in the Evergreen Indiana Payment Program [EIPP], which was founded as a means of allowing all Evergreen Indiana members the ability to collect on bills owed to other member libraries across the consortium. Bill ownership is defined uniquely in Indiana, so there is limited support within the ILS for these transactions. We have provided a secondary portal for tracking and passing remotely collected funds.
Daily reports are provided to each library system if eligible transactions are processed. If there are no eligible transactions, there is no report. Monthly recap reports are also made available for libraries to review and ensure that all daily reports have been addressed. The recap reports do not represent new funds. Quarterly, the State Library issues invoices to the member libraries that have collected funds that need to be passed to the billing library. The collecting libraries submit the funds to the State Library, where they are processed and passed to the billing libraries.