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    • Setting up your clinic, start to live
    • Five-minute tour of the dashboard
    • Which features fit your clinic
    • Two-week onboarding plan, in order, with what to do on each day
    • Start here, pick your role
    • Booking & Calendar
    • Walk-in patients and Quick Add registration
    • Session lifecycle, what reception must follow
    • The calendar, conflicts, treatment plans, the real reception playbook
    • Session types - Consultation, Service, Telehealth, and Home Visit
    • Session sources - rooms and resources as calendar columns
    • Discharging a patient and closing the encounter
    • No-shows, late cancellations, and deposit policy
    • Booking confirmations and appointment reminders
    • AI dynamic reassignment, freeing senior-doctor capacity automatically
    • Moving a patient's future sessions to a different branch
    • Recurring session series and the 10-pack patient flow. Coming soon
    • Patients, the record everything else attaches to
    • Registering a patient end to end, consents and duplicates and family links
    • The patient detail page, every tab walked through
    • Family links, duplicate detection, and merging records
    • Tagging patients well, the segmentation that drives campaigns and operations
    • PII masking, marketing consent, data subject rights, the compliance loop
    • Patient documents and attachments, what goes where and how to find it
    • Patient comments and @mentions, the internal notes the patient never sees
    • Check-in & patient flow
    • Patient journey from check-in to discharge, per role
    • Coming soon
    • Online booking widget, the public self-booking experience
    • eTriage smart intake, structured symptom routing before the booking lands
    • Treatment plans, the multi-session clinical journey
    • Designing, proposing, delivering a plan end to end
    • Treatment plans for aesthetic and dental verticals
    • Coming soon
    • Group classes, parallel chairs, standing recurring appointments
    • Service report, the most consequential click of the day
    • The deep mechanics, submit, corrections, reversals, role flows
    • Discharge, the legal close of the encounter
    • How service report consumes inventory, batch, expiry, location
    • How service report posts to the books, every account that moves
    • Service delivery, defaults, variants, multi-service, telehealth, homecare
    • Tasks
    • Working tasks day to day, kanban + table + automation
    • The tasks engine, lifecycle, SLA, escalation, recurring, templates
    • Configuring booking policy at the tenant level
    • Setting up provider availability for the booking calendar
    • Tablet kiosk, reception kiosk and in-room flows
    • Designing consent templates and capturing signatures the audited way
    • Coming soon
    • Patient queue display and the now-serving board
    • Coming soon
    • Virtual queue, wait outside, return when called
    • First-time patient, walk-in to invoice paid
    • Patient buys a 10-session package and consumes the first credit
    • Provider used more filler than planned
    • Owner authorizes a below-floor sale
    • How one action ripples through the system, the connection map
    • Refund a paid invoice, refund vs credit note
    • Month-end close, who does what in what order
    • Instagram lead → first paid visit
    • Opening a second branch, step by step
    • A patient complains, end to end
    • Migrating from another clinic system, what to bring over
    • Provider calls in sick, recover the day
    • Patient mid-treatment, transfer the remaining package credits to another branch
    • Saturday morning, branch A runs out of botox
    • Regulator inspection in 24 hours, pull the compliance bundle
    • Year-end close, what happens beyond the monthly rhythm
    • System outage on a busy Saturday, the paper fallback and the reconcile
    • Refund a partially-consumed package, the math and the ripples
    • New receptionist arrives, Day 1 from 09:00 handoff
    • Closing a branch, the reverse of opening
    • Patient data subject access request (DSAR) fulfilment
    • EMR, the clinical chart everything else attaches to
    • Working the medical record, what is where and who edits what
    • Allergies, the registry that prevents the wrong prescription
    • Entering the medical record, what fires, what is locked
    • Vital signs, capturing them right, watching the trend
    • Problem list and diagnoses, the continuity backbone
    • SOAP notes and encounter documentation, writing the chart well
    • AI Clinical Scribe, ambient documentation that writes the note for you
    • Clinical tests & results
    • Lab orders from request to released result
    • Connecting to a reference lab, HL7 and FHIR mapping, courier workflow
    • Pharmacy, the entry point
    • Prescription to dispense to MAR, the full clinical-to-fulfilment workflow
    • Controlled substances register, daily count, witnessed disposal, inspection prep
    • Insurance, the entry point
    • Running an insurance case from booking to settlement
    • EOB reconciliation, denial management, appeals, AR discipline
    • Coming soon
    • Aesthetic chart, photos, injection map, units per area, consent
    • Coming soon
    • Your day in My Panel, queue to close
    • Coming soon
    • Wearables, CGM, and remote vitals streaming into the EMR
    • Virtual ward and hospital-at-home, monitored discharge with RAG alerts
    • Billing remote patient monitoring to UAE insurers, the pre-auth, episode, and denial loop
    • PROMs library, the patient-reported outcome engine for outcome contracts and care plans
    • Coming soon
    • The clinician inbox, one screen for everything that needs your attention
    • Disease pathway builder, multi-step structured programs without code
    • Coming soon
    • Mental health clinic, from intake to long-term care with safety nets
    • Coming soon
    • Clinician cohort dashboard, the exception-based caseload view that surfaces the patients who need you today
    • Coming soon
    • Start here, choosing the right catalog type
    • Services
    • Products
    • Memberships
    • Gift Cards
    • Sales Packages
    • How to create a sales package
    • How Catalog and Inventory connect
    • Catalog setup for correct costs and margins
    • Invoices
    • Working invoices end to end, edits, voids, mixed payment, what each status means
    • POS-style checkout at the desk, quick-sale to receipt
    • Voiding an invoice, the only "this didn't happen" path
    • Multi-currency invoicing
    • Insurance billing and payer split per line
    • From booking to invoice, the full clinical-revenue loop
    • Sales reports
    • The 8 sales reports every owner should read and what each tells you
    • Payments
    • Rolling out payments. cash, card, links, end-of-day
    • Wallet, cashback, and referral rewards at payment
    • Card on file, recurring billing, BNPL (Tabby and Tamara)
    • Dunning and collections automation
    • Session Credits, lifecycle and setup
    • Session Credits, the operational rules
    • Selling and running a package end to end, with the accounting that goes with it
    • Packages across branches and across family members
    • Coming soon
    • Memberships, end-to-end
    • Building a membership program, the recurring-revenue playbook
    • Refunds & credit notes
    • Refunds and credit notes, when to use which and what fires downstream
    • Commissions
    • Designing commission rules and running the payout cycle
    • Commission reversal, claw-back, and payout
    • Accounting cycle
    • Accounting operations, the four screens you live in
    • Bank and cash reconciliation
    • Accounting posting from sales, every event mapped
    • Marketing spend and customer acquisition cost
    • Period close and fiscal year
    • Configuring the billing layer at the tenant level
    • Coming soon
    • Building coupons and applying discounts the audited way
    • Gift cards
    • Coming soon
    • Coming soon
    • E-invoicing — UAE FTA, KSA ZATCA, Egypt ETA, Peppol
    • e-Invoicing for UAE clinics
    • UAE FTA e-invoicing, schema, Peppol, sandbox, archive
    • Fee schedules per payer, cash vs insurance vs corporate vs VIP
    • Coming soon
    • Coming soon
    • Building a quote, sending it, converting to invoice
    • Coming soon
    • Running the cash drawer end of day, the daily integrity check
    • Coming soon
    • Statements and AR aging, the collection rhythm
    • Coming soon
    • Sending a payment link, the patient pays without coming back
    • Products & catalog
    • Stock & inventory
    • BOM, COGS, valuation, the margin discipline that holds the clinic together
    • Inventory workflows, the 7 sub-flows you will run
    • GRN end to end, batch capture, partial receipts, GL posting
    • Stock transfers, two-leg flow, in-transit state, inter-branch GL
    • Stock-take, cycle counting, variance, write-off the audited way
    • Expiry tracking, FEFO, recall, auto-write-off
    • Reorder points and low-stock alerts, preventing the stockout
    • Returns and disposal, vendor RMA, patient returns, regulated waste
    • Barcode scanning in every workflow — hardware, setup, fallback
    • Vendors & purchases
    • From purchase request to vendor payment, the procurement cycle that holds together
    • Team Members
    • Provider leaving the clinic, transfer of care end to end
    • Check-in / Check-out
    • Rolling out staff attendance. full setup
    • Shifts & rosters
    • Setting branch hours and per-member availability
    • Coming soon
    • Coming soon
    • Time off
    • Leave requests and approvals, the full loop
    • Teams, what they are and how to use them
    • My Panel, the provider's working surface
    • Leads
    • Leads funnel, working the kanban and converting to patient
    • First-response SLA, the 5-minute discipline that wins conversions
    • Source attribution and ad ingestion, where leads come from and how
    • Conversion to patient, lost reasons, win-back sequences
    • Campaigns
    • Running a campaign from segment to ROI
    • Messaging
    • Working the inbox, WhatsApp window, templates, AI mode, handover
    • AI mode deep dive, knowledge base, confidence, handover, guardrails
    • AI Receptionist, always-on booking and triage on WhatsApp + SMS + email
    • WhatsApp templates and window playbook, the WABA rules that shape the day
    • Catalog automation, attach automatic WhatsApp messages and tasks to a Service or Product
    • Automations
    • Designing automations, the trigger/condition/action model with an example library
    • Handlers library reference, every released action with its config
    • Rule design playbook, triggers, conditions, multi-step, dry-run, top 10 starters
    • Loyalty & wallet
    • Cashback, points, wallet, gift vouchers, how it all works end to end
    • Reviews
    • Patient mobile app, the clinic in the patient's pocket
    • Patient portal
    • What the patient sees, what they can do, what is gated to clinic-only
    • Remote monitoring and chronic care, the always-on patient relationship
    • Service Portfolios, the shoppable before-and-after gallery on your booking page
    • Aesthetic patient companion app, the post-procedure VIP loop
    • Coming soon
    • Raffles
    • Reports & analytics playbook
    • The questions every owner asks and the report that answers each
    • Reports number mismatch debug, the seven things to check
    • Coming soon
    • Owner daily dashboard, the 9-AM glance for clinic owners
    • How the reports and dashboards engine works
    • Coming soon
    • Per-role dashboards, what each role's home screen should show
    • Owner monthly rhythm, the month-end close playbook
    • Branches
    • Running a multi-branch clinic, what is shared, what is isolated, how staff move between
    • Roles & permissions
    • Designing roles right, custom roles, field masking, branch scope
    • Workspace settings
    • Customising the platform, the five settings screens you will live in
    • Every important option, what it does, what to pick, why
    • Notifications
    • Channels, routing, fallback, quiet hours, what fires when
    • Security & audit
    • Running the audit log, DSR exports, legal hold, regulator inspection prep
    • Leaving Hoopoe + Data Subject Requests, end to end
    • Disaster recovery and outage playbook, keeping the clinic open
    • Documents
    • WhatsApp Business
    • Stripe
    • UAE compliance, VAT, NABIDH, Tatmeen, DHA
    • NABIDH & Malaffi clinical workflow
    • DHA / NABIDH violations log (daily compliance review)
    • Running a UAE clinic compliantly, NABIDH/Malaffi/Riayati/Tatmeen end to end
    • DHA & NABIDH rules for Dubai clinics — by rule, role, and scenario
    • Before you go live — the one-time setup that prevents silent violations
    • DHA inspection prep, the bundle the regulator wants to see
    • What gets sent when — the complete message map
    • Who does what — NABIDH responsibilities by role
    • Every scenario answered — edge cases, gaps, and the fix
    • Compliance officer & inspection readiness
    • Telehealth — manual meeting link on a session
    • Telehealth — advanced features (coming soon)
    • Public API, webhooks, Zapier and Make recipes
    • Coming soon
    • Tap Payments
    • Receptionist, your role and your day
    • Your DHA compliance duties (Receptionist)
    • Provider, your role and your day
    • Your DHA compliance duties (Doctor / Nurse / Provider)
    • Coming soon
    • Your day as a sales rep, in 10 steps
    • Coming soon
    • Your day and your month as the clinic accountant
    • Owner, what only you can do
    • Your DHA compliance duties (Owner / Manager)
Documentation

Run your clinic with hoopoe EMR

Everything you need to set up, configure, and operate your clinic operation system — from first login to advanced workflows.

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Getting StartedSetting up your clinic, start to liveOne end-to-end walkthrough from first login to ready-for-patients. Replaces piecemeal setup steps with a single process.OperationsBooking & CalendarSchedule sessions, manage rescheduling and cancellations, run reception's daily flow.ClinicalEMR (medical records)Vitals, allergies, problems, encounters, notes. The patient chart.CatalogStart hereWhat the catalog is, which type to use for what you sell, and the order to set it up in.SalesInvoicesThe legal record of what was sold and owed. Creation, edit, void, status meaning, mixed-payment, split, the accounting trail.InventoryProducts & catalogThe catalog is the master list of everything you sell and consume. Physical products are also the items inventory tracks as stock.

Getting Started

Setting up your clinic, start to live

One end-to-end walkthrough from first login to ready-for-patients. Replaces piecemeal setup steps with a single process.

1 article
Interface tour

Where everything lives. Top bar, side nav, search, branch switcher, profile. Read once, never need again.

1 article
Clinic onboarding

Not every clinic needs every feature. This guide maps clinic types to the features that matter, so you enable what you need and ignore the rest.

2 articles
Start here, pick your role

A 5-minute orientation per role. New to the system? Pick the role that matches what you do.

1 article

Operations

Booking & Calendar

Schedule sessions, manage rescheduling and cancellations, run reception's daily flow.

12 articles
Patients

The patient record. Registration, consents, medical history, contact preferences, tags, attribution. Everything in the clinic hangs off this one record.

8 articles
Check-in & patient flow

The moment the patient walks in.

2 articles
Online booking

Patient-facing self-booking widget. Embed on the clinic website, branded portal link, payment-on-book.

3 articles
Coming soon
Treatment plans

Multi-session clinical journey. The doctor designs it, reception books each step, the system tracks progress and ties everything to the patient chart.

3 articles
Group and recurring

Group classes, parallel-chair sessions, standing recurring appointments.

2 articles
Coming soon
Service report

The provider's submit that closes the session. Locks the note, consumes inventory, fires revenue, accrues commission, advances the treatment plan, transmits NABIDH.

6 articles
Tasks

Internal task manager. Follow-up calls, lab result review, vendor chase, anything with an owner and a due date.

3 articles
Booking settings

Tenant-level booking policy. Cancellation window, no-show fee, reminder cadence, locked vs custom statuses, room turnaround.

2 articles
Tablet kiosk

Tablet-based experiences for reception self-check-in, signed consent capture, in-room consultation and service flows, and document upload.

1 article
Consents

Consent templates, signature capture across tablet, portal, and paper, expiry, validity, audit, regulatory binding.

2 articles
Queue management

Patient queue display, virtual queue, callback paging, waiting-room boards. The flow management layer between check-in and the consultation room.

3 articles
End-to-end scenarios

Real clinic situations from start to finish, naming every step in every module touched. Proof the system handles your case.

21 articles

Clinical

EMR (medical records)

Vitals, allergies, problems, encounters, notes. The patient chart.

8 articles
Clinical tests & results

Lab orders, integrations with reference labs, result release rules.

3 articles
Pharmacy

Prescribe, dispense, administer (MAR). Backend live for the full workflow, dashboard UI rolling out per surface.

3 articles
Insurance

Policies, eligibility, pre-authorisation, claims, denials, AR. The payer workflow end to end.

3 articles
Aesthetic & injectable

Photo capture, injection mapping, units per area, before-after consent, refund redaction.

2 articles
Coming soon
My Panel (provider workspace)

The provider's working surface. Today's queue, patient charts, encounter notes, results, prescriptions, service report.

2 articles
Remote monitoring & RPM

Patient wearables, CGM, blood pressure, pulse-oximeter, all streaming into the EMR vitals timeline with rule-based flags.

5 articles
Coming soon
Clinician inbox

The provider's unified bucket of results to review, refills to sign, notes to lock, addenda, cc'd-to-me, staff messages. Inspired by Epic In-Basket pattern. Mostly Coming-soon.

2 articles
Care pathways & programs

Multi-step structured programs for chronic care, weight loss, IVF, post-bariatric, derm courses. The no-code program builder.

2 articles
Coming soon
Mental health & counseling

Intake, recurring therapy sessions, ePRO cadence, risk flagging, telehealth, package billing, supervision.

2 articles
Coming soon
Clinician productivity tools

Inbox, task queue, cohort dashboard, deterioration view, bulk recall, supervision overlay.

2 articles
Coming soon

Catalog

Start here

What the catalog is, which type to use for what you sell, and the order to set it up in.

1 article
Services

Treatments and services you sell and deliver. Price, duration, materials, booking rules, automation.

1 article
Products

Physical items you sell or consume. Price, cost, barcode, stock, suppliers, accounting.

3 articles
Sales Packages

Prepaid bundles of services and products. What they are and how to build one.

2 articles
Catalog & Inventory

How the catalog and inventory fit together. What defines an item, what counts its stock, and the lifecycle that links them.

1 article
Costing & margins

How catalog setup produces correct COGS, margin, stock and reports. The accounting view of the catalog.

1 article

Sales

Invoices

The legal record of what was sold and owed. Creation, edit, void, status meaning, mixed-payment, split, the accounting trail.

7 articles
Sales reports

Revenue, top services, top sellers, payment-method mix, daily / monthly trends. The owner's weekly read.

2 articles
Payments

Cash, card, bank transfer, payment link, package credit. Take payment, split between methods, reconcile end of day.

5 articles
Sales packages

Prepaid bundles. Patient pays once, redeems over time. Sell, track consumption, handle expiry and refund.

4 articles
Memberships

Sell a bundle of prepaid entitlements (visits, products, percentage discounts) for a fixed period. Sessions consumed against the membership recognise revenue as they happen. Profit per membership card is visible on the P&L report.

3 articles
Refunds & credit notes

Giving money back. Cash refund, credit note, partial, package mid-way, commission claw-back, the accounting that has to balance.

2 articles
Commissions

Per-line earnings for sellers, providers, and call-agents. Per-tenant policy, per-product overrides, automatic reversal on void / refund / cancelled session.

3 articles
Accounting cycle

Month-end close, fiscal year, chart of accounts, journal entries.

6 articles
Billing settings

Tax codes, invoice numbering, payment methods enabled, refund thresholds, locked vs custom invoice statuses.

1 article
Coupons & discounts

Promotional coupons, per-line and whole-cart discounts, approval thresholds, audit, and the redemption report.

2 articles
Gift cards

Sell a gift card at the till, redeem at any branch, leave a balance for next time. The redeemed value posts to the patient's invoice as a payment method.

2 articles
E-invoicing

UAE FTA-mandated structured electronic invoices. Generate, sign, transmit, and reconcile against the regulator's response.

4 articles
Coming soon
Pricing & fee schedules

Per-payer rates, corporate contracts, VIP cards, multi-currency price books.

2 articles
Coming soon
Quotes & estimates

Pre-treatment cost preview the patient can review and accept. Converts to invoice on acceptance. Useful for treatment plans, aesthetic procedures, and insurance pre-authorisation.

2 articles
Cash drawer

Per-branch per-day cash discipline. Opening float, in-shift counts, closing reconciliation, Z-report, deposit to bank.

2 articles
Patient statement & AR aging

The cross-invoice statement a patient gets at month-end. The accountant's AR aging bucket view. Collection routines.

2 articles
Pay-by-link

A hosted payment link the patient opens on their phone to settle an invoice or deposit. No desk, no terminal, no auth required.

2 articles

Inventory

Products & catalog

The catalog is the master list of everything you sell and consume. Physical products are also the items inventory tracks as stock.

1 article
Stock & inventory

Receive stock, transfer between branches, count, adjust, dispose. The ledger behind every physical product and every supply used in a service.

10 articles
Vendors & purchases

Source items from suppliers. Purchase request, purchase order, goods receipt, three-way match, vendor payment.

2 articles

HR & Payroll

Employees

Employee onboarding, license tracking, departure, transfer of care, payroll integration.

2 articles
Check-in / Check-out

Daily attendance. How staff clock in and out, how breaks and location work, and how HR reviews and corrects entries under Timesheets.

2 articles
Shifts & rosters

Control who works when. Set branch working hours and per-team-member availability that drive the booking calendar. A dedicated roster builder with shift swaps is coming soon.

2 articles
Payroll

Coming soon. Salary runs, payslips, and accounting posting are not live yet.

2 articles
Coming soon
Time off

Record when a team member is away, route it through approve or reject, and block their booking calendar for those dates.

2 articles
Teams

Cross-branch groupings of staff. You build them in Settings and assign people from each Team Member profile. Messaging teams also route WhatsApp chats and run the AI assistant.

1 article
Staff panel (My Panel)

The provider's working surface during a clinic day. Queue, medical record, service report. Where clinicians spend their day.

1 article

Marketing

Leads

People who showed interest but aren't patients yet. Move them through a funnel until they book and convert.

5 articles
Campaigns

Bulk messages to segments. Pick audience, pick template, schedule. Track delivery, opens, replies, conversions.

2 articles
Messaging

1:1 conversations with patients and leads. WhatsApp, SMS, in-app. AI assistance to handle volume.

6 articles
Automations

When X happens, do Y. Tenant-configurable rules that fire on every event. Customer reactivation, loyalty bonuses, follow-up reminders.

4 articles
Loyalty & wallet

Cashback, points, gift vouchers, patient wallet. How patients earn, how they redeem, how it all hits the books.

2 articles
Reviews

Patient feedback after visits. Internal NPS, complaint flow, response workflow, public review platforms (Google, Trustpilot).

1 article
Patient portal

Patient portal, public booking page, shoppable gallery, online presence.

6 articles
Raffles

Periodic prize draws driven by paid invoices over a minimum amount. Retention play for high-value customers.

2 articles

Reports

Reports & analytics playbook

Single managerial playbook for every report, what to watch daily, weekly, monthly. Sales, clinical, inventory, HR, marketing reports + exports.

3 articles
Owner daily dashboard

Mobile-first 9-AM glance dashboard for clinic owners with push-anomaly alerts.

2 articles
Coming soon
Reports & dashboards architecture

How the report engine works. Registry, snapshot vs live, drill-down, saved views, export, scheduled delivery.

4 articles

Settings & Admin

Branches

One tenant, many physical clinics. How branches share data, where they are isolated, how cross-branch flows actually work.

2 articles
Roles & permissions

Build custom roles, control field-level access, scope by branch and team, audit every grant.

2 articles
Workspace settings

Tenant-wide configuration. Currency, language, branding, defaults, integration credentials. The owner's settings home.

3 articles
Notifications

Transactional messages. appointment reminders, payment receipts, lab alerts. Channel choice, templates, quiet hours, audit log.

2 articles
Security & audit

Audit log, legal hold, regulator inspection prep, DSR execution, tenant data export.

4 articles
Documents

Upload, categorise, and attach files to patients, invoices, employees, vendors. Consents, scans, photos, contracts, certificates.

1 article

Integrations

WhatsApp Business

Connect your WhatsApp Business Account (WABA). Send confirmations, reminders, campaigns, 1:1 conversations.

1 article
Stripe

Online card payments, payment links, online checkout. Connect once, use everywhere money moves.

1 article
UAE compliance bundle

Everything UAE clinics must wire up, VAT return, NABIDH / Riayati / Malaffi health exchange, Tatmeen drug traceability, DHA licensing.

11 articles
Telehealth

Manual meeting link on a session today. Built-in video room and screen-share are on the roadmap.

2 articles
Public API & webhooks

REST API, OAuth, webhooks, rate limits, no-code recipes (Zapier/Make/n8n).

2 articles
Coming soon
Tap Payments

KSA / GCC card gateway for patient invoices. On the integrations roadmap.

1 article
Coming soon

Role guides

Receptionist

Front desk. calendar, check-in, payments, walk-ins. Your role, your day, your boundaries.

2 articles
Provider (doctor, nurse, consultant)

You deliver the clinical service. Your queue, your clinical notes, your service reports.

2 articles
Sales rep

You convert leads into patients, sell packages, manage your pipeline, earn commission. Your day is people + numbers.

2 articles
Accountant

You own the books. Cash, AR, AP, refunds, write-offs, tax, payroll posting, month-end close. The numbers everyone else acts on come from your work.

2 articles
Owner

You own the clinic. You set the rules everyone else operates within. This guide is about decisions, not daily tasks.

2 articles