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The clinic admin console coming

This console is a design. It is not built today. There is no clinic list behind this screen, no reminder has ever been sent by it, and no switch is wired to it. It is drawn so the shape can be argued over before anyone builds it, and no date is attached to it.

What it is for: one screen holding every practice on the software, the state of each subscription, what has been sent to whom, and whether payments are running.

The screens before this one show what the software does inside a practice. This one is the view from our side of it, across all of them.

The five states, in order

A subscription is always in exactly one of these. A practice moves one step at a time, and never skips a step.

  1. current The bill is paid and nothing is happening. Payments run.

  2. reminded A payment did not go through. A first email goes to everyone at the clinic. Payments run.

  3. warned Time has passed and the bill is still unpaid. The email says plainly what stops, and what to do so that it does not. Payments run.

  4. grace The last window before anything changes. It runs for five days. MODELLED Payments run.

  5. suspended The software stops taking new payments for that practice. Payments already scheduled for a family still go through, the practice keeps working in its own software, and the state reverses the moment the bill is paid.

Two of the five share a colour, and none of them is carried by colour: every row on this screen prints its state as a word, and the number beside it says how far down the ladder it is.

Every practice, one row each coming

One card per practice, in ladder order, so the practices that need a person are at the bottom where they are easy to find.

Horizon City Orthodontics

Horizon City, Texas

current

Horizon City Orthodontics, subscription and reminders
LadderStep 1 of 5
Reminders sent0
Last reminderNone sent
Paymentson

Mesa Verde Orthodontics

El Paso, Texas

current

Mesa Verde Orthodontics, subscription and reminders
LadderStep 1 of 5
Reminders sent0
Last reminderNone sent
Paymentson

Rio Bravo Family Braces

Socorro, Texas

reminded

Rio Bravo Family Braces, subscription and reminders
LadderStep 2 of 5
Reminders sent1
Last reminder2 days ago
Paymentson

Sun City Braces

Anthony, Texas

warned

Sun City Braces, subscription and reminders
LadderStep 3 of 5
Reminders sent3
Last reminderYesterday
Paymentson

Fabens Family Orthodontics

Fabens, Texas

grace

Fabens Family Orthodontics, subscription and reminders
LadderStep 4 of 5
Reminders sent4
Last reminderToday
Paymentson

The history behind this one is further down this screen, as a timeline.

Tornillo Orthodontic Center

Tornillo, Texas

suspended

Tornillo Orthodontic Center, subscription and reminders
LadderStep 5 of 5
Reminders sent5
Last reminder6 days ago
Paymentsoff

Payments already scheduled for a family still go through, and the state reverses the moment the bill is paid.

Every practice, person, address, reminder count and step number on this screen is invented for the walkthrough. MODELLED Horizon City Orthodontics is the mock practice used on all fourteen screens.

Fabens Family Orthodontics, opened

Every practice card opens into this: the whole history, in order, with what was sent, who it went to, and what a person said on the phone.

A design. Nothing here has been sent to anyone, and nobody has been called.

Who the emails went to

Every account holder at the clinic, on every reminder. Not one person, and not one address that somebody may have stopped reading.

The people at the clinic who receive every reminder
Office managermanager@example.com
Doctordoctor@example.com
Billingbilling@example.com

Invented addresses on a reserved example domain, so nothing on this page can reach a real inbox.

The terms, printed inside every email

$0 to install. No processing fees. Software $149 a month, cancel any time. MODELLED

The condition on "no processing fees": when the family carries the processor’s rate; TRX confirms.

Beside the price and its condition, the same four lines each time:

  • What is owed, and the date it was due.
  • What happens next, and in what order.
  • How to pay it, and who to call.
  • That the families’ payments keep running while this is sorted out.

The software price above is the same string this walkthrough shows everywhere else, and it carries the same label everywhere it appears.

The history, in order

  1. Day 1. The payment did not go through

    The card on file was declined. Nothing changed for the practice, and nothing changed for any family.

  2. Day 1. First email, to everyone at the clinic

    The three people above, the terms printed in full, and a line saying nothing stops today.

  3. Day 4. Second email, same people, same terms

    Nothing new is asked for and nothing is threatened. The same email, sent again.

  4. Day 8. A person calls

    A person at NextRev called the office manager and spoke to them for six minutes. What was said, and what was agreed, is written into this record the same day.

  5. Day 11. The warning

    An email that says plainly what stops, what does not stop, and how much time is left. It goes to the same three people.

  6. Day 15. Grace

    It runs for five days. Nothing is switched off, and the families’ scheduled payments still go through.

  7. Only then, suspension

    A person decides it, with everything above in front of them, and the software stops taking new payments for that practice. It reverses the moment the bill is paid.

The shut-off is the last step of a documented process, never the first.

Every step above is recorded, with the time it happened, who it went to and who sent it, because “we told them and they did not pay” has to be provable later, by somebody who was not there.

What this screen cannot do

  • It cannot reach into the practice’s own software, and it never touches a patient record.
  • It cannot cancel a family’s scheduled payment.
  • It cannot skip a step: a practice reaches suspended by passing through the four states above it, or not at all.

And it cannot do any of it today, because it is not built. This card is a design like the rest of the screen.