diff --git a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/serials/serials-collection.tt b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/serials/serials-collection.tt
index 65d778ddc5..3d2e690037 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/serials/serials-collection.tt
+++ b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/serials/serials-collection.tt
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
         <p>
             <input type="submit" value="Edit serials" />&nbsp;
             <input type="button" value="Generate Next" onclick="javascript:generateNext([% subscriptionidlist %])" />
-            [% IF ( subscriptions.size == 1 ) %]&nbsp;<input type="button" value="Multi receiving" onclick="javascript:generateReceive([% subscriptionidlist %])" />[% END %]
+            [% IF ( subscriptions.size == 1 and !serialsadditems ) %]&nbsp;<input type="button" value="Multi receiving" onclick="javascript:generateReceive([% subscriptionidlist %])" />[% END %]
         </p>
     [% END %]
 
diff --git a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/serials/serials-edit.tt b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/serials/serials-edit.tt
index 79ce099de2..a6fd962768 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/serials/serials-edit.tt
+++ b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/serials/serials-edit.tt
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@
 [% INCLUDE 'doc-head-close.inc' %]
 <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
 //<![CDATA[
+function generateReceive() {
+    var subscriptionid =  document.getElementsByName("subscriptionid")[0].value;
+    if(nbissues=prompt(_("How many issues do you want to receive ?"))){
+        document.location = 'serials-collection.pl?op=gennext&subscriptionid='+subscriptionid+'&nbissues='+nbissues;
+    }
+}
 function popup(subscriptionid) {
 	window.open("subscription-renew.pl?subscriptionid="+subscriptionid,"subscription_renewal",'width=700,height=400,toolbar=false,scrollbars=yes');
 }
@@ -423,6 +429,7 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
 
 </table>
     <fieldset class="action"><input type="submit" value="Save"  class="button" accesskey="w" />
+    [% UNLESS ( serialsadditems ) %]&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="button" onclick="javascript:generateReceive()" value="Multi receiving">[% END %]
 </form>
 
 </div>
diff --git a/serials/serials-collection.pl b/serials/serials-collection.pl
index 7d5d6b4e9c..43935467a6 100755
--- a/serials/serials-collection.pl
+++ b/serials/serials-collection.pl
@@ -165,9 +165,10 @@ $template->param(
           routing => C4::Context->preference("RoutingSerials"),
           subscr=>$query->param('subscriptionid'),
           subscriptioncount => $subscriptioncount,
-    location	       => $locationlib,
-    callnumber	       => $callnumber,
-    uc(C4::Context->preference("marcflavour")) => 1
+          location	       => $locationlib,
+          callnumber	       => $callnumber,
+          uc(C4::Context->preference("marcflavour")) => 1,
+          serialsadditems   => $subscriptiondescs->[0]{'serialsadditems'},
           );
 
 output_html_with_http_headers $query, $cookie, $template->output;