Clinics provide health services directly to consumers.
Some key business processes
Specialists provide services
They normally have a calendar of attendance
They may price their services differently to others with the same speciality
They may not offer all services offered by others with the same speciality
They may
Pay rent for room space regardless of bookings
Pay a % of what they invoice to customers
Get paid when they complete a service
They will have a “Healthcare Provider Number” on their person
Customers purchase services
Customers shopping on the Web
Customers may already be logged in
In this case we know who they are
In this case we may already have the ability to take cc payment (via eway)
Customers may not have logged in yet (Guest) and a login is created on payment
Shopping
Landing Page
Gift vouchers ($ Value)
Bulk Buys
Bundles of services and or products
Buying Products
All products will by default be listed. To hide set “Shopping Cart Status” to “Hidden”
Booking Appointments Wizard
Select the Therapies you would like to book
Then choose from available Sessions
Review summary of sessions chosen before checkout
Customer Surveys pre-visit
When a Therapy Session has been booked that requires a pre-visit survey then the customer will get an email with a link to the survey
If the survey includes a waiver then confirmation must be selected before any questions can be answered
If the survey requires a signature then a web based signature panel must be completed (can use touch screen like phone or computer or can use mouse).
When the survey is filled in - it takes a copy of the current survey definition then captures the answers and holds the questions and answers on the session and provides visibility to the therapist.
Therapists may have a separate survey to fill in during a session
Venue Dashboard
Practitioners have regular schedules that can be updated for changes on an individual day (earlier start, later finish, no show / swap, gaps). Open any shift to update as required and Practitioners can do this from their portal
The Venue Dashboard covers all rooms / Practitioners for the day
Right click on any session to
mark arrived (will change to yellow)
Take payment (opens in POS so can add any other sales)
Open session
to move - lists available future times
review - can update any details, re-send surveys, flag as problem
cancel - with or without penalty using rules
Badges indicate first time attendees, friends of the clinic, overdue amounts, problem flags and other items
New Bookings are NOT made via the calendar - instead the customer and service is selected in the POS and suitable sessions selected
Testing Customer Surveys
Link a service to a service
Service - Advanced tab - Survey Dropdown - select the appropriate survey and Save
An email will be sent for the booking and for the survey if a survey is linked to that service
Click on the link to enter the answers to the survey questions
Accept the waiver and click on List
Enter the answers to questions and comments
Click on Done and the answers will be updated for this booking
Point of Sale
AutoPosLogin role has “IsSalesManager” > 9 so POS Sales Rep will default to the logged in user.
Alternative is initials + PIN or Thumbprint scanner.
First page is to Find / create the customer
Then uses the same processes as the customer on the web above.
Add
services and choose dates
products (indicate mail out or pickup )
bulk buys
Bundles
Checkout payment
Any credit notes
Health Fund Membership for claim attempt
On file credit cards (via Eway)
Physically present cards (via Tyro)
Booking Sessions via the POS
Passive Services (room only)
Select a service
Choose a date
If other services in the cart have a date it will default
if the time is significantly different to other bookings same date will alert user
If a qualification survey is required (Type Appointment Qualification)
Added to the cart
Deposit Amount shows
Active Services (Therapist Required)
Active Services
Require selection of a Therapist to determine possible dates
Pricing may vary by level of therapist if pricing by level is setup
otherwise same as passive
Therapy Packs (Bulk Buys)
If A pack is the same service as a pack in the cart then the deposit is not active for that service
purchase a sauna (deposit shows)
Add a pack of 5 > deposit is removed from other Sauna item in the pos
Bundles (Different Services as a bundle)
Bundles when added explode to see the services that have been added
Bundle has the revenue in the POS
Services do not have separate prices in the POS
Customers Bundles use
Once a bundle has been purchased - they are listed on the person
Bundle, purchased, used, Date purchased, expiry date
Booking Wizard
Booking Wizard goes through
Selection of an area / Areas
Selection of a therapist (if required)
Therapists may have different price levels
Selection of a date
Tick “book another date” > adds another booking to the Wizard
Customer Receipt
A4 emailed receipt
Header information to include ref#, customer name, date and time, clinic address, person who served them etc.
Item | Qty | Total | Pay now | GST | Today | Hicaps | Remaining | Notes | |
Follow up Colonic (4 Pack) | 1 | $ 550.00 | $ 550.00 | y | 1 | $ 150.00 | 3 | purchased, used 1 | |
Hemagenics Iron Advanced 30 Caps | 1 | $1 8.00 | $ 18.00 | y | 1 | Stock paid and taken today | |||
XCryo (Localised Cryotherapy Treatment) - paid 12/7 | 1 | 1 | paid before used today | ||||||
Natropathy session Today | 1 | $ 250.00 | $ 250.00 | y | 1 | $180.00 | purchased today and used today | ||
Natropathy session 12/12 Deposit | 1 | $ 250.00 | $ 125.00 | NA | deposit for future session | ||||
ALTR - senior initial session 12/12 deposit | 1 | $ 450.00 | $ 250 | y | deposit for future session | ||||
Sauna Session (5) and health Bundle | 1 | 1 | 2 | bundle owned - used 1 | |||||
| 1 | 1 | From sauna session bundle | ||||||
Total inc GST | $ 1,518.00 | $ 1,193.00 | 4 | $ 330.00 | |||||
GST included | $ 126.80 | $ 106.80 | |||||||
Hicaps | $330.00 | ||||||||
Balance required today | $ 863.00 | ||||||||
CC Payment 1 | $ 100.00 | ||||||||
Voucher 1234 | $ 100.00 | ||||||||
Cash | $ 663.00 |
POS receipt layout
Also used for layout on phone
Item | Qty | Pay now |
Follow up Colonic (4 Pack) | 1 | $ 550.00 |
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Hemagenics Iron Advanced 30 Caps | 1 | $ 18.00 |
XCryo (Localised Cryotherapy Treatment) USED | 1 | |
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Natropathy session Today | 1 | $ 250.00 |
Natropathy session 50% Deposit | 1 | $ 125.00 |
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ALTR - senior initial session 50% deposit | 1 | $250 |
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Sauna Session (5) and health Bundle USED | ||
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Total Ordered today (incGST) | $1,518 | |
GST | $ 126.80 | |
Total Payment Required Today | $ 1,193.30 | |
HiCaps Claim | $ 330.00 | |
Payment Balance Required Now | $ 863.00 | |
Voucher1234 | $ 100.00 | |
CCPayment 1 | $ 100.00 | |
Cash | 1 | $ 663.00 |
Setups Required
Services Sold
Services can require a Therapist
Services can require a room
Services can imply a certification requirement
“Featured” services will list in the most popular services lists
Sequence of the services to be scheduled will use the Category Sequence Number (no sequence numbers will be last)
Services Pricing
Deposit is a global setting on Host Company
Packs
Can sell “Packs” at discounted prices based on a Quantity with expiry months - examples
2 pack must be used in 2 months
5 pack must be used in 4 months
Bundles
Bundles are Packs of multiple services and come with expiry months
Memberships are Recurring bundles
HiCaps Code
Service Billing code is passed to Hicaps
Surveys
Surveys are groups of questions with a pre-amble.
Surveys are filled in by customers prior to treatment (Type = Appointment Assessment) or by the clinician during the visit (Type = Therapy).
The Preamble is an introduction of the overall survey
Commonly used as a Waiver and the customer is required to accept in order to respond to following questions
The survey is built up from sets of questions
They can be renamed as sections in the survey, and sequenced.
Sets of Questions
Questions are setup in sets that can be used across many surveys
Questions may be multi or single select, ranges, numerical, text, mandatory or optional, scored and the results can be merged into a printable result document if required.
Question Special Type : Appointment (Qualification ) > before an appointment
eg - services where the customer must confirm they are not pregnant
Question Special Type : Appointment (Assessments) > during or after an appointment
May be a number of questions
Note - some question sets may have been answered in a previous session and allowed not to be repeated.
Venues and rooms
The Venue is of type Clinic and rooms that support Therapy are of type Therapy.
A venue has a number of Areas (Rooms)
The areas have types (Therapy room or Reception)
Room Certificates
Some require a certificate and may have notes
Certificates can be linked to Therapists, Services and Rooms. When linked to a room then it indicates that any service that requires that certificate can be done in that room. Generally this link is only used if the room is a dedicated room.
Can Rent Flag
If the Therapy Room is ticked as “Can Rent” then it will appear as one of the rentable spaces in the Renters section.
To add an Area (Room) - click on + beside Areas
Enter Name and select Type and enter Notes and select Certificate if applicable and click on Save Area
To Edit an Area (Room) - double click on an Area
It will populate on RHS where you can edit the information
Alter Name , select Type of room , alter the notes , select another certificate (or none) and click on Save Area
Room Renters
The Rent field can only be seen by users with the Secure Features
Creation of invoices button will create all invoices for the past week (if Monday or earlier) or the next week (if Tuesday or later)
Debtor invoices of SubType Recurring (Rent) will be created
Room Rent
Rooms can only be rented by ABN holders (the list populates on entry of some letters from the renters name).
The rent is entered as an exGST value as below
Select the days the rent covers
Select the start and end hours
Enter the rent amount
Enter a description to be put onto the invoice line (if the default text is to be replaced)
Note that the discount will create a seperate related line
discount lines text “Discount” + “%” + “Text from related line” + “Day ticked”
Non-rent invoice lines
Room renters may be asked to pay for non rent components.
These can be defined on a Journal Template and will be added to the weekly invoice when it is generated
Therapist
A Therapist is
An employee ( must have a Title)
The linked Person must have a certificate of type “Therapy”
Employee will need a role of “Therapist” to enable login to the Therapist Portal
Certificates - Admin - Community - Certificate and SOP Definitions
If a service can only be offered by qualified Therapists
Define the certificate
Link to People
Type Therapy
Implies Therapist
Then the certificate is
linked to the Therapists that can perform the services
Linked to the services
The Service will also have “Person / Therapist is required” ticked on
If the Pricing varies by level of therapist (Apprentice to Master)
Note that the certificate level for a Therapist only needs a level if the service pricing varies by level
Apprentice (Tag A)
Junior ( Tag J)
Senior (Tag S)
Master (Tag M)
Price lists are then used to define the prices for the different levels
Define a price list for each level (including the relevant tag and tick Services)
Then the price can be set for this price list on any service
The wizard will then indicate there is a range of prices available
the price will replace the RRP in the wizard for a Therapist who has the required certificate for service at that level
If a service does not have a therapist and can only be offered in particular rooms
When a therapist certificate is required to perform a service there is no need to also certify the room as the roster will determine the room to be used.
Define the certificate
Linked to Services
Type Therapy
Implies (not required)
The certificate is then
linked to the room
linked to services that can be done in that room
Note the service will have “Room Location is required” ticked on
The booking wizard will only offer availability of these services if a certified room is available
Master List of Certificates
To add a Certificate - click on Certificate and SOP Definitions
Note that internal SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures) training results can also be tracked here
From Properties - enter Name , Applies to (People or Services) , Category (Therapy or Admin) , Implies and Save
Category “Therapist” is required for all Therapy related certificates
Implies “Therapist” is required if the certificate applies to “People” and is to be used to limit who can offer particular services.
Certifiers can be added if certificates are provided by external organisations and you want to track where each person was trained.
Certificates linked to people
Bring up an employee you want to link to a certificate
Click on the Person - Person Details
Click on Certificate tab
Select the Certificate to link from the dropdown
Tick Can Teach (if they can teach) , enter a certificate number if applicable and Save Training
A person can have more than one Certificate
Expiring Certificate Management
There is a centralised expiring certificates report
Services - Admin - Services - Services
Add a Service
On the General tab - Clear
Enter Item Code , Name Style , select Category , Special Type - Therapy , Buy/Sell - select Sell , Duration in minutes , RRP and Save
Extended Attributes - Therapies / Rostering / Scheduling
Select Certificate
Tick - Person/therapist is required (if applicable)
Tick - Room/locations is required (if applicable)
Save
Some Services are passive in that only a room is required
Other Services are active in that only a person/therapist is required
Some Services will require a room and a person/therapist
Therapy Guest Role
Add Therapy Guest Role to Debtor Relation
Credit Card Processing Secure Feature
Customers who login can enter credit card details and make payments.
In order to enable this the role they are using needs to have “Credit Card Processing” added.
Rosters
Rosters are for Roles in Rooms
Date
Times
Person
Room
Specialists have Roster Patterns
Setting up roster patterns
An individual may have multiple roster patterns
examples
PersonA Therapist Availability
PersonA has the same pattern Mon to Friday (Tuesday and Thursday only)
PersonA has one pattern for WeekendsA and one for WeekendsB (as they only work Saturdays every 2 weeks)
Passive Therapies - eg Sauna (no therapist required) - common to setup rosters 12 months in advance
Do have a room
Do not have a person
Semi Active Therapy - eg Cryo (no therapist with you but needs supervision)
Require both a person and a room
Active Therapy - common to have rosters setup 4 months to 12 months advance
Require both a person and a room
Manual Therapists
Using Roster Patterns
Roster Patterns Create Rosters
Can clear all
Can clear a day
The Money Flow
Customers include
Individuals booking sessions for themselves or others, purchasing products or gift cards
Companies purchasing memberships for their individuals
There are a couple of fundamental points to make
Some therapists are employees
Some therapists are visitors that pay rent
Some therapists are visitors that pay rent and a % of their income
All therapists only earn when they deliver the service
Sales include
Sales of products > money is earned when the products ship
Immediately when in store > DPP (Vs payment method)
When shipped / picked up if on the web
Deposit collected when online > DPP line to sales deposit account (vs bank)
Invoice created on shipping or pickup and payment allocated (vs bank and/OR sales deposit account)
Sales of Therapies
Deposit is non refundable - and hence earned as it is sold
DPP for amount of deposit to Sales deposit account (vs Bank)
Bundle payment is not earned until expiry date
Payment collected and allocated to Sales deposit account (Vs Bank)
On expiry date > amount moved to revenue account (expired bundles) - need a monthly process here
Therapy delivered
Value of therapy to revenue account (DPP vs Bank / deposit account)
Some or all of the payment may be from deposit account (if deposit paid or part of a bundle)
Some products may be prescribed during the session
Payment to Therapists
Based on therapies delivered if % or $ value
Calculation of amount to pay less room rentals over a period (CPP RCTI) if relevent
Commission on prescribed products (prescribed during the session)
Summary of Journals Created
Business Step | Debit | Credit |
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Invoice of Sale of a Product (Physical item) | Trade Debtors | Default Income Control Account (or setting on item) |
| Bank | Default income control account (or setting on item) |
Deposit for a Therapy / Therapies (invoice) | Trade Debtors | GL Control account > Sales > Deposits and Progress Payments |
| Bank | GL Control account > Sales > Deposits and Progress Payments |
Value of the Therapy attended | Trade Debtors | Default Income Control Account (or setting on service) |
Removing deposit paid on therapy attended
| GL Control account > Sales > Deposits and Progress Payments | |
| Bank | Default Income Control Account (or setting on service) |
Deposits that have expired | GL Control account > Sales > Deposits and Progress Payments | Default Income Control Account (or setting on service). Ideally want in a separate revenue account - so linked to a service. |
Use of expired Deposits | From above row Credit | Default Income Control Account (or setting on service) |
Refund to customer if Health point covers more than deposit or amount paid (reverse of a payment) | Default income control account (or setting on item) | Bank |
Screenshots of example Journals
Sale to a customer of a deposit (30%) for a therapy ($100).
GL account | DR | CR |
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Customers Deposits | 30 | |
Bank | 30 |
Customer attends and pays the balance of the therapy
GL account | DR | CR |
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Revenue (Service GL Account) | 100 | |
Customer deposits | 30 | |
Bank | 70 |
Customer misses the session
GL account | DR | CR |
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Revenue (missed service) | 30 | |
Customer Deposits | 30 |
Deposit Expires
GL account | DR | CR |
---|---|---|
Revenue (deposit expired) | 30 | |
Customer Deposits | 30 |
Customer Credit of Deposit - return funds to customer
GL account | DR | CR |
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Bank | 30 | |
Customer Deposits | 30 |
Payment of the Therapist (Therapy less rent)
GL Account | DR | CR |
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Service BUY GL account - Therapy amount | 100 | |
Service (Rent) | 20 | |
Bank | 80 |