Adding interest to overdue invoices
If you want to add interest to invoices that are overdue,
click on admin and select ‘Add interest to overdues’.
- Select the company.
- Select the practitioner to bill the interest to.
- Choose between patients and third parties.
- Edit the interest percentage accordingly.
- Enter the date the interest should be applied.
- Enter the date all invoices created prior to
should accrue the interest.
- Click retrieve.
- Select the invoice or click above the list in
that window to select all.
- Click ‘generate interest invoices’.
- Click yes to apply the interest to all invoices
selected.
Open a patient client card and acct summary to view the
interest applied on the invoice summary tab.
Simple interest
Applying simple interest is a feature found under the admin
menu, it will need to be enabled in program setup.
Setup > program setup, select billing and invoice
billing.
Check off ‘use simple interest’ and set a default
percentage. (This can be changed from the simple interest window as required).
Applying simple interest
Click on the admin menu and select simple interest.
- Search the client in the lookup field at the
top.
- Filter the invoices to outstanding only and or
exclude third-party. (Under the patient lookup field).
- Select a company from the dropdown.
- Highlight the invoices from the list that
require the interest payment (ctrl + click to select multiple).
- Enter the percentage in the APR box and the date
to apply it (in the middle of the window).
- Click ‘apply interest’.
- A warning will pop up, “Interest applied, would
you like to print a statement?”.
- Click yes.
The following client statements window will open.
- Select a date range, company, and practitioner.
- Select payer, choose unpaid only and overdue
warning if desired.
- Click generate statement.
- From here click on print or close.
Differences between adding interest to overdues and simple
interest
- Simple
interest will only apply interest to one patient at a time, adding interest to
overdues can apply interest to multiple patients at a time.
- Adding interest to overdues will only allow
small percentage rates (under 10%), simple interest is limitless.
- Adding interest to overdues will accumulate the
interest additions, the simple interest will replace any previous simple interest
rates that were applied to an invoice.
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