Question 1

Video Consultations - A guide for clients

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This guide shows what to expect from a video consultation as a client. If you're a clinician, feel free to share this guide with your clients before their video consultation! You could even add it as a link to your confirmation and reminder messages!

If you're a patient, before we get started, you will need a device with a webcam to be able to attend a video consultation. It can be any device with both an internet connection and a webcam, like a laptop, PC, tablet or even a mobile phone. You'll access the video consultation via your internet browser, like Safari or Chrome.

You can find more information on the browser requirements for video consultation here.

The most important things to note are:

If you're using Microsoft Edge, make sure you're on version 81 or later
If you're using an iPhone or iPad, you'll need to use Safari. You can't use the Chrome or Firefox apps on iOS
Video consultations are not supported on Internet Explorer
You'll need to make sure you're using an up to date version of your chosen browser.

You'll also need a stable internet connection, we'd recommend a speed of more than 10mbps for the best possible experience. An internet speed of less than 10mbps might lead to poor quality video and sound during your consultation.

How do I join my video consultation?

To allow you to join your video consultation, your clinician will have provided you with a secure access

Question 2

How do I create a consent form?

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A consent form is used to capture agreement from your client (or client's next of kin/legal guardian/power of attorney) to a pre-defined set of conditions. If you would like to know more about how this feature might be used in relation to GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), please take a look at the article below:

What should the consent feature be used for?

To create your own consent form, follow these steps:

Click on Settings -> Privacy, see below:
Click on the green CREATE NEW CONSENT FORM button at the bottom of the page
Enter the following information:
- Name of the consent form, such as "GDPR Consent"
- Some introductory text that will appear in the portal. This text will appear above your consent form and will explain to your client what they need to do and why they need to do it. Here's some example text
- The consent text - we strongly advise that you get legal/professional advice on the text that you present here
When you are finished click on SAVE
This form will now appear in your list of consent

Question 3

Guide to SMS and email appointment communications

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If you would like to reduce your DNA rate, confirmations and reminders sent by either SMS or Email can be a very useful tool in ensuring clients attend appointments.

This article will guide you through the steps you need to follow to customise and set up appointment communications for your clients.

You will need to make sure your clients are "opted in" to receive appointment communications via either email or SMS -> How do I opt in clients to receive email/sms confirmations and reminders?

Please note, if you check the opt in box after you have booked an appointment, no confirmation will be sent for that appointment. Reminders and any other communications you have set up will send as long as the patient is opted in before they are due to be sent.

||| It's important that you receive consent from your client before you send out any SMS/Email confirmations and reminders. If consent is not given, make sure you remember to opt them out!

To send appointment confirmations and reminders to your patients, you will need to set up communication triggers -> What are communication triggers?

These communication triggers can be used to inform your patients abou

Question 4

Stripe minimum and maximum payment values

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When payments are taken via Stripe, there is a minimum payment amount enforced to take into account the Stripe processing fees, which combine a small fixed amount and a percentage. These amounts are set by Stripe, not WriteUpp, and cannot be changed.

The minimum amount you can charge depends on your bank account settlement currency (the currency your bank account uses).

Details on the minimum charges for a variety of currencies can be found via the Stripe website here.

For example if you are in the UK and using GBP, the minimum charge amount via Stripe is £0.30.

Therefore if you are testing the process of either paying an invoice online or taking a pre-payment for an online booking, you need to make sure that the value of the payment is greater than £0.30 or it won't be processed.

There is also a limit to the maximum amount you can charge a client via Stripe, which again is dependent on the currency used.

You can read more on minimum and maximum charge amounts via Stripe here.

Question 5

Guide to Invoicing and Billing

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What is It?

WriteUpp provides a very simple mechanism to:

Create Invoices for both appointments and expenses
Keep Track of paid and unpaid Invoices
Maintain a record of Bad Debts
Pinpoint appointments that have not yet been invoiced

Why use invoicing?

Maintain high quality financial records
Stay on top of cash-flow
Reduce paperwork

Setup

Go to Settings -> Invoice -> Basics

Invoice Number

This is useful if you want your invoices to start at a certain number. This only affects invoices created going forward. The value must be greater than the current maximum invoice number.

||| Once an invoice number has been set, you cannot go below this and revert to a smaller number. Please ensure you do this with care.

You can also set the currency and payment terms for your invoices here.
Edit VAT rates and change the discount code calculation setting under Basics too.

Go to Settings -> Invoice -> Layout

Invoice Footer

You are able to manually input any details into the footer of your invoice, including things like your practice address, telephone number, email address and payment details. You can learn more about this here.

| This uses the same HTML editor as you will find in other parts of WriteUpp, allowing you to format text in all kinds of ways. You can also use it to insert images, annotations, links and variabl

Question 6

Connecting Stripe to WriteUpp

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Stripe is a payment gateway that allows you to take online payments directly from your clients. It’s integrated into WriteUpp so that when a client makes a payment using Stripe, the associated invoice is marked as paid for you. You can find out more about Stripe here.

|| If you’re based in the UK, you also have the option to use Square, which you can find more about here. If you are a UK business and don't see Stripe as an option, please contact us and request that it is enabled on your account.

To take payment (via Stripe) in WriteUpp you will be charged your local Stripe fee + 0.5%. So, for example, if your local Stripe fees are 1.4% + 20p/transaction you will be charged 1.9% + 20p/transaction.

All fees are deducted by Stripe.

If you wish to start taking payments in WriteUpp via Stripe, open the Main Menu and choose Integrations & Add Ons then click on Configure underneath Stripe.

You will then be taken to the following screen where you will need to connect to your Stripe account. Don’t worry if you’ve not already got a Stripe account, you'll be able to set one up as part of the process.

To get started, click on Connect with Stripe and then enter your email address. If you already ha

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