Business Functionality
The E-Care functionalities deal with processes specific to the world of care institutions. Once these data are processed, the system runs the standard Business Central processes such as finance, accounting, billing, reminders,...
What is :
E-Care
Read this introduction to learn more about E-Care.
Business Central
Read this introduction to learn more about Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Understand the flow
E-Care's core functionality is quite simple. During the month, you ensure the consisteny and accuracy of the data. On the deadline, if necessary, import and treat the information from third party systems, then run the settlement calculation, check the result, if corrections are needed, adjust the data and re-run the calculation. Finally, generate the documents. From this point, you are back in the Business Central Standard.
Process Synoptic
The Settlement Calculation
The settlement calculation goes through the data of the beneficiaries for the selected period and will collect the information of stays, absences, evaluation, contracts, manual entries and then will look for the necessary invoicing rules in order to bill these services correctly.
it works over previous periods as well as on the next period. for insiders, we talk about P-2 to P+1 without P0. You can back out up to 4 months. See period covered below.
Periods covered
The system will never compute the current month. It has been designed to invoice services in the past (care, comsumption...) and future infrastructures (room, phone,...). So we have some rules/services that need in advance invoicing (mainly the infrastructure) and some are in arrears (mainly care and certainly the gastronomy).
On one side, the current period (P0) has been invoiced as P+1 during previous invoicing period and on the other side, will be billed as P-1 on the next invoicing period, therefore, billing is usually done between the 1st and 10th of the month to catch P-2, P-1 and P+1.
You define the calculation period when running the settlement process. The system will then automatically generate the necessary corrections, e.g. an adapted evaluation for the current billing.
