When someone else is paying for services or products on behalf of the patient, the balance is cleared off the patient's record as they do not owe any money. The balance to be paid goes into the Deferred Payments module, so that you can track what is owed.

Payments due for GOS forms on the NHS are already set up to go to Deferred Payments, but you may have other third party payers such as Eden Red or a local company that uses your services for their employees.

You can add the details of any corporate clients that you use for their eye care and third party national corporate schemes. This can then be added to a patient's record and when a corporate fee goes through the till, the fee will go into the correct corporate file in Deferred Payments. You can also use a Corporate to automatically pay a product off into the correct Deferred Payment folder, e.g. you can have an Eden Red eye exam fee and when this is selected it will not go through to the Till page, it will automatically pay off to the the Deferred Payments module under the Eden Red heading.

Go to Maintenance, Patient Information and click 'Corporates' to load the Corporates form shown below.

In the Add Corporate section at the bottom of the screen, fill in the details of the corporate you would like to add.

Click '+' to save the details and add the new Corporate.