Maximum Over Registry entry

Specifies the maximum amount of an overpayment for which a refund will not be issued unless requested (in other words anything less than this overpayment value will not be refunded unless requested).

Customers do mail in checks made out for sums greater than the cost of the products ordered. As it is not cost effective to issue refunds for small amounts, most Vital Records Offices have a policy on when to issue refunds on these overpayments. The purpose of this entry is to define an amount for an overpayment below which a refund will not be issued automatically. In other words, if a customer over pays by an amount greater than the Maximum Over value, a refund will be automatically issued. Any amount equal to or less than the Maximum Over amount will not result in a refund being issued automatically.

See Maximum Under Registry entry for the entry corresponding to under payments.

Usage

This Registry entry is assigned to groups:

KeyGroup
Key 1 Group
Key 2 Default
Key 3 Table
Key 4 epos
Key 5 Maximum Over
Key 6payment type
Value value
GroupDefaultTableeposMaximum Overpayment typevalue

where:

payment type

may be Default (the value applies to all payment types) or may be a particular payment type.

As some Vital Records Offices accept multiple currencies (e.g. $USD and $CAD), this amount can have a value of Default (it applies to all payment types) or it may be specified differently for individual payment types.

value

is a float amount indicating the maximum accepted over payment before a refund will be generated automatically. Any amount equal to or less than this amount will not result in a refund being issued automatically.

Note: In the absence of this Registry entry, a value of 0.00 is assumed.

Example

This entry specifies that any overpayment greater than five dollars for any payment type will have a refund automatically generated. Any overpayment of five dollars or less is kept by the Vital Records Office:

KeySetting
Key 1 Group
Key 2 Default
Key 3 Table
Key 4 epos
Key 5 Maximum Over
Key 6 Default
Value 5.00