Billing & Mobile Money

Bill it once, get paid on the spot

Build the invoice from priced services, send a Mobile Money prompt to the patient's phone, and watch it reconcile itself. Cash, deposits, refunds and insurer shares all land on the same account.

Dashlead billing screen with itemised patient invoices and payment statuses
What you get

Everything this module covers

  • Itemised invoices from a priced service catalogue
  • MTN and Airtel collections by phone prompt
  • Payments reconcile to the invoice automatically
  • Deposits and advance credit on patient accounts
  • Refunds with a clean audit trail
  • Thermal-printer receipts
  • Patients can pay their own bills from the portal
  • Income posts straight to the finance ledger
01 Invoicing & Service Pricing

Bills built from a real price list

Consultations, procedures, beds and tests priced once in a catalogue, then assembled into itemised invoices that anyone at the counter can produce.

Invoicing & Service Pricing

What this does for you

Consultations, procedures, beds and tests priced once in a catalogue, then assembled into itemised invoices that anyone at the counter can produce.

Invoicing & Service Pricing in detail

  • Priced catalogue of every billable service
  • Itemised invoices with quantities and discounts
  • Insurance co-pay split applied per line
  • Deposits and advance credit on patient accounts
  • Status derived from money actually received
Dashlead service price list with every billable service, its category, code and price

The price list itself

Every consultation, procedure, bed and test priced once. The ward, the lab and the cashier all bill from this one list, so the same service costs the same wherever it is added.

Dashlead hospital finance overview: income and expense totals, revenue and expense by category, the trend over time and full income and expense breakdown tables
The page keeps going. Click to see all of it

Income against expense, all on one page

Totals, revenue and expense by category, the daily trend and both breakdowns without leaving the screen. It moves the moment money does, because billing and the ledger are one chain.

Dashlead patient invoices with totals, balance due and payment status

Invoices and what is outstanding

Total, balance due and status, unpaid, partial and paid, derived from real payments.

Dashlead priced billable service catalogue used to build invoices

The price list behind every bill

One catalogue keeps pricing consistent between the ward, the lab and the cashier.

Dashlead add billable service modal with name, category, code and price

Pricing a service

Name, category, code and price, set once, used everywhere.

Dashlead hospital income report broken down by category and period

Where the money came from

Income by category and period, assembled from the invoices themselves rather than re-keyed.

02 Mobile Money Collections

Get paid before they leave the counter

Send a payment prompt to the patient's phone. They approve it, the cashier sees it confirm on screen, and the invoice closes itself.

Mobile Money Collections

What this does for you

Send a payment prompt to the patient's phone. They approve it, the cashier sees it confirm on screen, and the invoice closes itself.

Mobile Money Collections in detail

  • MTN Mobile Money and Airtel Money
  • Prompt sent straight to the payer's phone
  • Cashier watches the payment confirm live
  • Reconciled to the invoice automatically
  • Patients can pay themselves from the portal
Dashlead Mobile Money collection modal requesting payment approval on the patient phone

The collection prompt

Enter the number, send the request, and watch it resolve, no manual reconciliation afterwards.

Dashlead Mobile Money transaction log with references and settlement status

Every transaction, referenced

The Mobile Money log with provider references and settlement status, what reconciliation used to mean.

03 Receipts, Deposits & Refunds

Paper that matches the ledger

A receipt the patient can hold, a deposit you can apply to the next visit, and refunds that leave a trail.

Dashlead invoice showing itemised charges, the insurer and co-pay split, payments already taken and the balance still due

What this does for you

A receipt the patient can hold, a deposit you can apply to the next visit, and refunds that leave a trail.

Receipts, Deposits & Refunds in detail

  • Thermal receipts with itemised charges
  • Insurer share and patient co-pay printed together
  • Barcode that pulls the invoice back up
  • Deposits held as credit on the account
  • Refunds recorded against the original payment
Dashlead printed A4 invoice headed with the facility name, showing itemised charges, insurer and co-pay split and an invoice barcode

The printed invoice

Headed with your facility name: itemised charges, what the insurer covers, what the patient owes, and a barcode that pulls the invoice back up at the counter.

Dashlead 80mm thermal receipt carrying the same invoice figures for the counter printer

The same bill on the counter printer

One button switches to 80mm, so the slip a patient walks out with carries the identical figures as the filed copy.

04 Reports & Accountant Exports

The answer your accountant asks for

Did we make money last month, who still owes us, and what is sitting on the shelf. Three questions, answered from the payments and sales already recorded, with nothing to re-key.

Reports & Accountant Exports

What this does for you

Did we make money last month, who still owes us, and what is sitting on the shelf. Three questions, answered from the payments and sales already recorded, with nothing to re-key.

Reports & Accountant Exports in detail

  • Profit and loss by category, over any period
  • Compared against the period before it
  • Debtors aged 30 / 60 / 90 days, patients and insurers apart
  • Money earned but never put on a claim, flagged separately
  • Stock valued at cost, with what is near expiry
Dashlead hospital profit and loss report showing income and expenses by category

Where the month went

Income and expenses by category, each with its share, against the same length of time before it.

Dashlead receivables report with patient and insurer debt aged into 30, 60 and 90 day buckets

Who owes you, and for how long

Patient balances and insurer claims aged separately, because they are chased differently.

Dashlead pharmacy stock valuation report showing value at cost and value at risk of expiry

What the shelf is worth

Every batch at the price it was bought for, with the value about to expire called out.

Questions

Frequently asked

Which networks are supported?
MTN Mobile Money and Airtel Money, through a payment prompt the patient approves on their phone. The cashier sees the payment confirm on screen.
What if a patient overpays or cancels?
Overpayments sit as credit on the patient's account and can be applied to the next bill or refunded, every movement is logged.
Can patients pay without coming in?
Yes. Outstanding bills appear in the patient portal, where the patient can trigger the Mobile Money prompt themselves.

See Billing & Mobile Money in a working hospital

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