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Enhancements to deposits feature

  • June 4, 2026
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Hi team,

We use the deposit feature regularly to discourage patients from cancelling on short notice/FTA and it is really helpful in keeping our utilisation up.

There are a couple of things that would really help with making this feature more effective:

1)A way for reception to follow up on unpaid deposit links sent out. There is currently no way to check which deposit links remain unpaid. 

  1. The “send payment link” option has a generic message. We would like to update this with a template with additional text (to avoid manually typing it each time). However, if we try to set up an SMS template, the “ [payment_request_link]” for that deposit amount is not a tag available, ie we can’t link in that specific deposit amount, just the patient’s whole account (which wouldn’t work anyway as deposits are not listed as an invoice)…

 

Could you look into making these enhancements to make taking and following up deposits more efficient?

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Hebe Lowen
Community Manager
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  • Community Manager
  • June 4, 2026

Thank you ​@Anne-Maree Siderides for the detailed feedback, I will ensure both points are fed back to the team!


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  • Savvy Contributor
  • June 22, 2026

With regard to the deposits, when a patient attends an appointment that isn’t related to an allocated deposit, why does the amount owed that appears in the top right corner, not show the correct amount?

For example, a patient pays £40 for a future appointment which is allocated specifically as a deposit, but then comes in before for an emergency with a fee of £100. When that emergency appointment gets charged through, the fee owed in top corner will show the patient owes £60 when they actually owe £100 as the £40 on their account is pre-allocated to a deposit for something else.

Also, with this in mind, if you could link deposits to appointments, that way they could automatically unlink from the saved deposits to the appointment it is actually meant for. Does that make sense?

When reception gets busy, some patients are not paying the correct fee’s for their appointments due to this.