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DaySmart Vet - Account Configurations Quick Start Guide
DaySmart Vet - Account Configurations Quick Start Guide

New to DaySmart Vet? Start here with some basic configurations for your account!

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Written by Grahm Grenemeier
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Practice Profile

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Your logo, contact information, and address will appear in the header of all documents (e.g., invoices and certificates) created by the software, as well as in all emails sent from your account.

Logo

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Click on “Upload Logo” in the upper left

  3. Click on "Choose File"

  4. Navigate to the location of your logo on your computer and select the logo file

  5. Click the “Save” button

Clinic Information

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Click on “Edit Profile” in the upper left

  3. Add or Edit your contact information as needed

  4. Click on “Save Changes” in the upper left

Tip: Be sure to enter the email address you intend to use as the FROM address for emailed clinic correspondence

Clinic Email Verification

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  1. After clicking save on the Clinic Information step, you will receive a task notifying you that your clinic email needs to be verified

  2. Navigate to the inbox for your clinic email address

  3. You will see an email from Amazon Web Services (AWS), open that email and click on the big hyperlink in the middle of the message

  4. When you see the “Congratulations!” screen, your email has been verified

Address

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  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Click on the “Configuration” tab and select the “View Addresses” option

  3. In the upper right, click the "+" icon next to the search bar to add a new address

  4. Fill out the form with the proper address

  5. Click "Save"

DaySmart Vet utilizes Google Maps to automatically complete your address. As you begin to fill in your address, select your address from the options that appear, and the rest of your address will automatically be filled in for you. If your clinic address includes a suite number or room number, please select the appropriate address, then go back to edit the street address to include the suite number at the end.

Clinic Hours

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The Schedule module uses your clinic hours to automatically grey out the times that the practice is closed. In addition, clinic hours are used by the online appointment booking add-on if you choose to use it.

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Click on the “Configuration” tab and select “View Clinic Hours”

  3. Set your clinic hours the form that appears and click “Save”

Any days your practice is closed, select the check box next to the applicable day under the closed column. If you have a day selected as closed, it will not show on your schedule.

Regarding the "After Hours" section; this allows you to set hours that items will be automatically marked up based on the configuration "After Hours Markup". This configuration is found in the "View Configurations" section of the settings. The value specified will be applied to an item's price when charged after regular hours, as specified in the "Clinic hours" setting. If you do not do after hour markups, you can leave the after hours fields blank.

Configuration Checklist - Important System Function

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It is key that you thoroughly go through the configuration list in the Settings > Configurations > View Configurations. These are essential configurations for your account to function the way you need and set your business up for success. Below, we have highlighted a select few configurations that need to be addressed first. Not every configuration is listed due to the configurations in the system having a description next to each one.

Please make sure to go through the entire configuration list during your account set up.

The default view in the Settings will always be the content of the "View Configurations" option. Otherwise, you will be able to get the the configuration list by navigating to Configurations > View Configurations.

Account Balance on Invoice

If a client owes more money than the total of their current invoice, do you want for the total amount owed to display on the invoice? The default is no. If you prefer this amount to be displayed:

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Click on the edit icon at the far right for the “Account Balance on Invoice” row and update to “Display Account Balance”

  3. Click the Save icon at the far right

Appointment Confirmations

When you make a new appointment, there is an option to automatically send an email or SMS confirmation (if SMS feature is enabled) to the client that includes all the appointment information. Default is no confirmation. If you want to automatically send confirmations:

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page and scroll down to the configuration list (The configuration list is the default view when you first go into the settings module). Otherwise, the configurations are fround from "View Configurations

  2. Click on the edit icon for the “Appointment Confirmations” row and update the field as “Email” or "SMS".

  3. Click the Save icon at the far right

Default Appointment Reminders

When an appointment is scheduled, this configuration will determine when the reminder will be sent to the client. To set up appointment reminders, follow the steps below.

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Scroll down and click on the edit icon for the “Default Appointment reminder” and update the type to Email, SMS, Mail, Phone or No Reminder. The Email and SMS option is automatically sent.

  3. Click the Save icon at the far right

Check In Billing

When checking in an appointment on the schedule there is an option to default to create either an invoice, estimate, or not to create anything. Default is to not create anything. If you wish to automatically create an invoice during appointment check in:

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Click on the edit icon for the “Check In Billing” row and choose your desired default

  3. Click the Save icon at the far right

Please note that when checking in an appointment, the default option can be updated as needed.

Services Location

The service location defines the type of practice you operate. This value is used to calculate taxes (see below), as well as to enable certain functionality (e.g., the Google Maps integration for mobile practices). To set your services location:

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Scroll down and click on the edit icon at the far right for the “Services Location” row and update the fields as applicable

  3. Click the Save icon at the far right

Timezone

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Scroll down and click on the edit icon at the far right for the “Timezone” row and select your timezone

  3. Click the Save icon at the far right

General Configurations

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Appointment Types

Appointment types are used when creating an appointment and are color-coded to help organize the schedule visually. To add an appointment type:

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Click on the “Configuration” tab and select “New Appointment Type”

  3. Name and Duration are required, and you can configure many more aspects by filling out the form

  4. Click the Save icon at the far right

More details and information on setting up Appointment Types can be found in the Managing Appointment Types article.

Schedule Columns

Columns can be created for a specific staff member (e.g., a specific doctor), or for non-staff purposes (e.g., drop offs or technicians). To create a schedule column:

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Click on the “Configuration” tab and select “New Schedule Column”

  3. Select the Type (Staff or Non-Staff), Name (Provider) & Display Name of the column which will be shown on the Schedule

  4. Click the Save icon at the far right

The “Available for” field on the form is used for specific appointment types only when enabling the Online Appointment Add On.

For more information on setting up Schedule Columns see the Managing Custom Columns on the Schedule article

Payment Types

Payment types are used when recording a payment. Several payment types are available in your account by default, but you can add or remove payment types as desired.

To add a payment type:

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Click on the “Configuration” tab and select “New Payment Type”

  3. Complete the form that appears

  4. Click the Save icon at the far right

If you are using our Integrated Payments for your card processing, the payment types for the integration will be created automatically to tie to your devices. In this case you may wish to remove the default Credit Card Payment Types.

To delete a payment type:

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Click on the “Configuration” tab and select “View Payment Types”

  3. Click on the gear icon next to the payment type you wish to delete and select “Delete Payment Type”

Integrated Payments

Enabling and using the integrated payments in DaySmart Vet allows you to streamline your payment transactions all inside one account. We can also lower what you’re currently paying for credit card processing.

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Click on the “Add-Ons” tab

  3. Find Integrated Payments in the list and click the “Integrated Payments Registration” link in the description

  4. Click the Save icon at the far right

Payment Terms and Late Fees

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Click on the edit icon for the “Payment Terms” row

  3. Set Up your payment terms and late fees to your preference

  4. Click the Save icon at the far right

Late fees are optional. When enabled, late fees will automatically apply to past due amounts once an outstanding balance is older than the payment terms and the optional grace period that is set in the “starting” field.

Taxes

Our software will automatically calculate taxes for you based on your clinic’s address (when the “services location” is set to “on premise”) or based on the client’s address (when the “services location” is set to “mobile”).
When the “services location” is set to “both,” the software will look at the services location value in the appointment or invoice to determine how to calculate taxes. Taxes are applied automatically to items as they are added to an invoice.

To set up your taxes:

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Click on the “Configuration” tab and select “New Tax”

  3. Complete the form that appears

  4. Click the Save icon at the far right

  5. Repeat as needed for all applicable tax types (City/State/etc)

We use Google Maps to automatically identify city, county and state information depending on the “type” of tax that you select. Select the applicable city, county or state from the list that appears as you type the name of the specific jurisdiction.

You can specify which inventory category or categories the tax should apply to by setting the “applies to” field to “specific inventory categories” and select the applicable inventory category or categories from the list that appears.

Staff

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Adding Staff Profiles

Each employee that will have access to your DaySmart Vet account should have their own staff profile. This ensures that each user has access to the portions of the software needed to handle their day-to-day responsibilities in the practice.

To add a Staff Profile:

  1. Click on “Settings” at the top of the page

  2. Click on the “Staff” tab

  3. Click "New Staff" in the upper left

  4. Complete the form that appears. First and Last Name along with Email address are required. The Email address must be unique as that will be the users log in for the account.

  5. Set the Role, which defines what the staff member will be able to access in the software (See below for more detail)

  6. Click "Save + Done" in the upper left

For more information about the additional settings on the Staff Profile, see Managing Staff Accounts and Permissions

Permissions

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Permissions in DaySmart Vet are managed in the Permissions tab under Settings. Permissions are assigned per role. Each role has default permissions to start, and can easily be adjusted in the permission tab. There are seven roles available, in descending order of default permissions level:

  • Administrator

    • This role has full rights to the clinic account

  • Office Manager

    • Normally a Practice Manager or non-doctor Practice Owner would be assigned to this role.

  • Veterinarian

    • Anyone assigned to this role will be a “provider” for medications

  • Technician

    • This role is set up for medical records access and not for billing by default. If technicians at your clinic cover for receptionists, you should add billing permissions to this role

  • Receptionist

    • This role is setup for access to schedule and billing by default.

  • Groomer

  • Staff

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