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How do you mark an Invoice as Paid or Bad Debt?

You can mark an Invoice as Paid from a number of places:

From the Invoice


Open up the Invoice by selecting it from the Account tab of the Patient Summary, or one of the lists in the Finance View

Click the Pay in Full button at the bottom of the page

When you select Pay in Full, you will be taken to the Payment Information screen:



Select a Payment Date

Select a Payment Type. If you would like to amend or add a payment type please follow the steps here - How do I add or customise payment types?

Add any Payment Comments

Once this is complete, click Save

From the Accounts tab of the Patient Summary


You can also click on the blue Pay button next to an Invoice in the Accounts tab of the Patient Summary. This will take you through to the Payment Information screen to carry out the steps noted above:



From the Diary List View


Once an invoice has been generated for an appointment, this is indicated in the List view using the symbol highlighted below:



Select this symbol to take you to the invoice, where you can then mark it as paid. This symbol will turn green when it is marked as paid or red if it is marked as bad debt.

Implications of Marking an Invoice As Paid


To comply with Audit requirements, it is not possible to amend an Invoice once it has been marked as Paid.  

However, you can delete an unpaid invoice. If the items of an invoice are incorrect for example, you can choose to delete it and start again. Please note: if you just want to edit the Invoice Details of an unpaid invoice, you can do this without deleting it by selecting Edit Header.

To delete an unpaid invoice, open it up and click on the trash icon at the bottom right hand side of the page.

Therefore, if you do need to amend/delete an invoice once it has been marked as paid, you will first need to remove the payment information -> How do I edit an Invoice that has been marked as Paid?. Once the payment information has been removed, you can then delete the invoice.

Marking an invoice as bad debt


Marking an invoice as bad debt can be done by opening the invoice, and clicking on the Bad Debt button at the bottom of the screen. Once you click on Bad Debt, the invoice will be marked as such immediately. A 'Bad Debt' marker is placed at the top of the invoice to reflect this:



Once an invoice has been marked as a bad debt, the only way to remove the marker is to pay it in full.

If you mark an invoice as bad debt in error, you can mark it as paid in full (even if it isn't!) to remove the bad debt marker, and then delete the payment information straight away. This will revert the invoice back to simply 'Not Paid'.

Did you know? You can now mark multiple invoices as paid or bad debt at the same time! Read Can I mark more than one invoice as paid at a time? for more information on this.

Updated on: 01/08/2023

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