Discounts

[Lou]

We have a range of discount schemes ranging from buy ten treatments get one free to reductions on Consultations varying from 10% to 100% which we track manually to check the "cost" at present.

I cannot find a reference in the Manual to how Clinic Office treats these. We would also like to track the effectiveness of the schemes i.e. compare the number of treatments paid for where the initial Consultation was discounted.

Please advise.

[Dan Tarbuck]

Hi Louis

I am not sure how you are doing this but I would for instance create an item called "10 Treatment Plan" and give it a cost of 9 treatments (e.g. £180 if treatments were £20 each).

As regards the discount system, you can do this two ways in ClinicOffice either by specifying an invoice discount Invoice record, or by specifying a discount percentage for the patient on the Patient record. I understand that this may not cover your needs as regards "discounts schemes" but this is something we are looking at implementing after ClinicOffice 2007 ready.

I hope this helps a little!