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The purpose of this section is not to provide a verbatim Account Holder User Guide but to provide implementors sufficient material so as to be able to understand the benefits to the account holder...
Community Banker keeps the accounts for the user's retail banking …
individual customers accounts and the control account
a control cash account to hold the other half of the double entry for...
The accounting interfaces catered for by the core system are:
Journal Batch Import
Journal Batch Export
Use the text box below to enter the name of the new bank-builders page you want to create, then click on the "new page" button.
CommunityBanker is a project that is premised on being free and available to all. However, to prevent abuse of images, logos and other © Copyrighted material the project makes use of several...
- daily operations
- credit comittee
- risk management
- business continuity
- backup and restore etc…
The CommunityBanker BIG BOOK project aims to produce a definitive technical reference for the CommunityBanker project. It takes the form of a self-contained downloadable website.
It is still very...
- adding and deleting staff
- adding new accunt holders
- working with the system
- daily run schedules
- monthly run schedules
- reports and actions
- comliance and record keeping
Building a binary Debian package for Ubuntu
Prerequisites
First some reading:
A nice blog which got me started - Packaging Java for Ubuntu
The Official Debian documentation - Debian Policy...
- signing in
- taking calls from customers
- assisting customers
- what you can do and what you may not do
- security in the call centre
- FAQ list
- call centre protocol
The GnuCash chart of accounts is located here.
The use of acronyms is universally annoying, so to demystify these irritating necessities the following table is provided:
Acronym
Meaning
EFT
Electronic Funds Transfer
EMV
EuroPay,...
If you are already familiar with the concepts associated with a credit union, open source and banking systems then this section is probably worth skipping, but it is included here to aid community...
One you have completed the installation, a menu item for Community Banker will appear under Applications/Enterprise/Community Banker menu. Click this and it should launch a browser to the community...
The Bank Builders can be reached via gro.reknabytinummoc|ofni#gro.reknabytinummoc|ofni
The purpose of creating a "dummy" Java application was so that I had something to use when learning to build Debian installation packages for Ubuntu.
First I started with the Java installation...
The following default roles are pre-configured in Community Banker:
Call Centre Operator
Client-Login-Proxy
Internet-Banking
Data...
University Collaboration Programme
The aim of the University Collaboration Programme is to work together with academic institutions in promoting the use of Open Source, and Java to the benefit of...
If you are allowed to edit pages in this Site, simply click on edit button at the bottom of the page. This will open an editor with a toolbar pallette with options.
To create a link to a new page,...
UNDER REVISION
Please note that these instructions are under revision
Before proceeding with installation please ensure that you have followed the Server Preparation steps first. Preparing the...
The system must provide for a charging mechanism [1] that can perform the following functions:
Interest Calculations
Adhoc Fees
Monthly Fees
Transaction Fees
Commissions (negative fee)
Fee...
The credit union maintains a default debit interest rate and a default credit interest rate. These rates are use to calculate interest paid and interest earned on member accounts. The interest...
Files with a .jar extension or JAR files, are essentially just a collection of files compressed using the ZIP/ZLIB compression format. JAR (short for Java Archive) files were introduced in the...
Who can join?
Anybody is welcome to join the site who is serious about contributing to the wiki. All content you contribute becomes the property of the Community Banker project - see Applicable...
The lending engine provides for the following basic functionality:
loan application
credit scoring??
loan creation
repayment schedule
early settlement
payment holidays
penalty fees &...
A loan account is an account generated by the Lending Engine for each and every loan that a member has. It functions in all respects as any other account within the system but it has additional...
The Clay Model
A clay model of the proposed solution was been built and hosted for a while at www.gautengsavers.co.za for Southern Cross Community Bank. Basic accounts, internet, admin and call...
The idea is to utilise Launchpad's Personal Package Archives PPA for Ubuntu users of Community Banker to easily install and upgrade the solution as it evolves.
What we learn about this process will...
For starters
CommunityBanker utilises the CodeIgnitor PHP framework. The MVC (Model -View-Controller) method of abstracting the database (model) from the business logic layer (controller), and in...
The purpose of this section of the wiki is to provide meta-documentation, basically a set of learnings related to the process of bringing Community Banker into being. This is so that all...
These are indicative recommended roles you should assign to your own user to get started:
Role
Description
Back Office Master
This role allows for any/all administration of static and...
Community Banker Home Page
Community Banker Source Source Code
Bank-Builders Google Group
World Council of Credit Unions
…and others to follow …
The CommunityBanker application suite requires LAMP to be installed which is very easy to achieve with most Ubuntu distributions. These instructions are for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty but should work...
CommunityBanker requires a minimal server infrastructure and is scalable for volume implementations. The minimum pre-installed server components are:
Server Components Required
Server...
The purpose of this page is to showcase the sites of the credit unions that utilise the CommunityBanker solution.
The hosted CommunityBanker Demo Site will be available soon.
Welcome!
Concepts
Specifications
Easy install
Server Preparation
Server How To
Installation
Configuration
System Manual
User Help
Developers
Accounting
Demo's
Admin...
Members:
Moderators
Admins
Your home branch is your default branch identified by its sort code, also known as a routing code. The system requires at least one bank branch to be configured. All financial institutions in the...
Revision
Date
Contributor
Description of revision made
0.0.1
07-Oct-2007
Andrew Turpin
Conversion of the workshop draft into document form –not fully transcribed yet.
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General Information
Purpose
The purpose of this document is to describe a requirement for a banking system for use by any small credit union. The proposed banking system is intended to reside on a...
Community Banker is designed to easy to interface to and indeed it is necessary to implement several system interfaces in order to run a fully operational bank utilising this system.
The following...
This manual address all the system functionality in as much detail as is practical.
There is a User Help subsystem which caters for normal use and daily operation issues experienced by account...
Quick Links
Concepts
Installation
System Manual
Related Links
Developer Resources
Big Book
Specifications
Coding Preparation
Writing Interfaces
Example Code
Project Learnings
Tutorials &...
This is the set of accounts that occur within the Community Banker system and which must balance in its own context. Memos and control accounts are used to make this possible. By default the...
The heart of the Community Banker system is its transaction engine. The transaction engine is the only way that transaction may be posted into the system either in single transaction pairs or in...
The following are all useful links for learning PHP and CodeIgnitor
Beginner resources and useful references
Skill
Resource URL
Resource Description
PHP
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/
A very easy...
The legal and compliance framework in which Community Banks are rquired to operate is often quite intimidating. The following lists some of the key areas in which applicable legislation...
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Security and the perception of security is paramount for banks as theirs is the burden of trust. We trust our bank to keep our money safely and make sure they have enough when we want to come and...
In order to understand banking services from a customer's perspective we first need to understand what is business of banking. It is broadly defined as the taking of deposits and providing for...
A credit union is a cooperative financial institution that is owned and controlled by its members. Credit unions differ from banks and other financial institutions in that the members who have...
Open source culture1 started as an idea without a name many years before the Internet. Richard Stallman codified the concept with the creation of the Free Software Foundation. However, even before...
The are six types of basic risk that a Community Bank has to be aware of viz:
Credit risk - The risk that the bank won’t receive the principal and interest it is owed.
Liquidity risk - The...
Community Banker keeps the accounts for the user's retail banking …
individual customers accounts and the control account
a control cash account to hold the other half of the double entry for...
Introduction
The aim of the programme is to encourage universities to participate on a project basis to the continual evolution of the community banker project whilst meeting their own education,...
This User Help subsystem caters for the normal use and daily operations of the system by the following staff:
Account Holders
Call Centre Staff
Branch Staff
Back Office Staff
More technical...
Bank-Builders is a wiki for the Community Banker project.
Community Banker is a banking system for use by credit unions and community banks which offers the promise of a free (as in beer) yet...
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