CLINIC HQ
Table of Contents
CLINIC HQ
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  • 1. Start Here
    • 1.1. Technology
      • 1.1.1. Computers
      • 1.1.2. Tablets
      • 1.1.3. Tech in Real Life
      • 1.1.4. Printers
      • 1.1.5. Prescription Label Printers
      • 1.1.6. Barcode Scanners
      • 1.1.7. Wifi Hotspots
      • 1.1.8. Credit Card Machines
    • 1.2. HQ Uses Google Chrome
      • 1.2.1. Fitting HQ To Your Screen
      • 1.2.2. Bookmark Pages
      • 1.2.3. Latest Version of Chrome
      • 1.2.4. Clearing Your Cache
      • 1.2.5. Using Multiple Tabs
      • 1.2.6. Pinning a Tab
      • 1.2.7. Creating a Shortcut to HQ
      • 1.2.8. Allowing HQ Pop-Ups
      • 1.2.9. Allowing Geolocation
    • 1.3. Logging In
      • 1.3.1. Getting Started
      • 1.3.2. HQ OnePass
      • 1.3.3. Two-Factor Authentication
      • 1.3.4. Changing Your Password
      • 1.3.5. Logging Out
      • 1.3.6. Password Setup
        • 1.3.6.1. Updating User Information
    • 1.4. Quick Search
    • 1.5. The Dashboard
    • 1.6. Getting Help
      • 1.6.1. How to Use This Manual
        • 1.6.1.1. Making a PDF of the Manual
        • 1.6.1.2. Printing the Manual
        • 1.6.1.3. Searching the Manual
        • 1.6.1.4. Making Your Own Mini-Manual
      • 1.6.2. Open a Help Ticket
        • 1.6.2.1. What HQ Does Not Provide Assistance On
      • 1.6.3. Clinic HQ University
      • 1.6.4. Training Clinic
  • 2. The Calendars
    • 2.1. Spay/Neuter Calendar
    • 2.2. Wellness Calendar
      • 2.2.1. Managing the Wellness Calendar
    • 2.3. Mobile Locations
    • 2.4. Troubleshooting
  • 3. Scheduling Concepts
    • 3.1. Correctly Scheduling Appts
    • 3.2. Public, Volume, TNR
    • 3.3. Owner vs. Client
    • 3.4. SN, Wellness, Rechecks
    • 3.5. Internal vs. External
    • 3.6. Anesthetic vs. Non-Anesthetic
    • 3.7. Priority Scheduling
    • 3.8. Mobile Clinic Scheduling
    • 3.9. Spay/Neuter Appointments by Time
    • 3.10. Things to Know About Walk Ins
    • 3.11. Multi-Clinic Considerations
    • 3.12. Overbooking
    • 3.13. Scheduler Log
    • 3.14. Already Sterilized Status
    • 3.15. Quick Search Action Menu
    • 3.16. Feral Cats – Scheduling & Services
    • 3.17. Address Requirements & Special Circumstances
    • 3.18. Secondary Owners
    • 3.19. Medication Pickups and Refills
  • 4. Making Spay/Neuter Appts
    • 4.1. Public Spay/Neuter Appointments
      • 4.1.1. S/N From the Calendar
      • 4.1.2. S/N Online (E-Appointments)
        • 4.1.2.1. Priority Appointments
    • 4.2. Volume Spay/Neuter Appointments
      • 4.2.1. Making a New Volume Client
      • 4.2.2. Releasing Appointments to the VCP
      • 4.2.3. Bulking Volume Client Appointments
      • 4.2.4. Managing Volume Client Appointments
  • 5. Making Wellness Appointments
    • 5.1. Wellness Appts From the Calendar
    • 5.2. Wellness Appts Online (E-Appointments)
    • 5.3. Vaccine Clinic Scheduling Strategies
      • 5.3.1. Schedule Vaccine Appointment (Internally)
      • 5.3.2. Schedule Vaccine Appointment (Externally)
  • 6. Making Recheck Appointments
    • 6.1. Recheck overview
      • 6.1.1. Scheduling Recheck Appointments
  • 7. Changing Appointments
    • 7.1. Canceling Appointments
      • 7.1.1. Canceling SN, Basic Wellness & Recheck
      • 7.1.2. Canceling Advanced Wellness Appointments
      • 7.1.3. Canceling an Appointment with a Deposit
      • 7.1.4. Revert a Canceled Appointment
      • 7.1.5. Deleting Appointments
        • 7.1.5.1. What is the Difference between Canceling and Deleting
    • 7.2. Rescheduling Appointments
    • 7.3. No-Showing Appointments
      • 7.3.1. Volume Client No-Shows
    • 7.4. Converting Public to Volume Clients & Vice Versa
  • 8. Understanding Various Paperwork (Templates)
    • 8.1. Consent Forms
      • 8.1.1. Getting Clients to Pre-Sign Consent Forms
      • 8.1.2. Signing Consent Forms Day-Of
      • 8.1.3. Deleting, Resending Consent Forms
    • 8.2. Drug Baggie Insert
    • 8.3. Treatment Sheets
    • 8.4. Cage Cards
    • 8.5. Take Home Paperwork
    • 8.6. The Medical Record
    • 8.7. High Risk Waivers
      • 8.7.1. Verbal High-Risk Waivers
      • 8.7.2. Email High-Risk Waivers
    • 8.8. The Rabies Certificate
    • 8.9. The Spay/Neuter Certificate
    • 8.10. The Roster
    • 8.11. Print/Email Paperwork
    • 8.12. How to create templates
  • 9. What To Do Before Your Day
    • 9.1. Review Consent Forms For Health Issues
    • 9.2. Send Pre-Payment Link
    • 9.3. Make a Patient Packet
    • 9.4. Print Some Blanks
    • 9.5. Approve e-Appointments
  • 10. What To Do During Your Day
    • 10.1. Step 1: Start Your Drug Log (Daily Task)
      • 10.1.1. Centralized vs Decentralized Drug Drawing
      • 10.1.2. Who Should Start the Drug Log?
      • 10.1.3. Confirming AM Bottle Balances
      • 10.1.4. Finalizing From the Day Before
    • 10.2. Step 2: Check In (Daily Task)
      • 10.2.1. Suggested Flow
      • 10.2.2. Chaos Reducing Strategies
      • 10.2.3. Curbside Check-in
        • 10.2.3.1. Parking Lot Strategies
          • 10.2.3.1.1. If you have a circular driveway
          • 10.2.3.1.2. Non-circular driveway, parking spots only
          • 10.2.3.1.3. No parking lot, now what?
        • 10.2.3.2. Being Safe Curbside
        • 10.2.3.3. Car Side Script (PAASS)
        • 10.2.3.4. Check In Via E-Lobby
        • 10.2.3.5. Taking Payment
      • 10.2.4. The Divvy
    • 10.3. Step 3: Exam & Pre-Med (Daily Task)
      • 10.3.1. Exam Vet
      • 10.3.2. Entering Weight, Age, TPR
      • 10.3.3. Animal Behavior Tags
      • 10.3.4. SOAP
        • 10.3.4.1. Short Exam
        • 10.3.4.2. Long Exam
        • 10.3.4.3. Auto-Triggered Medical Tags With Notes
        • 10.3.4.4. Internal Medical Notes (Manually Written)
      • 10.3.5. High Risk Waivers
      • 10.3.6. Declining Surgery
      • 10.3.7. Drawing & Giving the Pre-Med
      • 10.3.8. Kenneling
    • 10.4. Step 4A: Surgical Flow (Daily Task)
      • 10.4.1. Selecting Patients for Surgery
      • 10.4.2. Drawing Induction Drugs (Drug Draw Screen)
        • 10.4.2.1. ASNA Anesthetic Protocols
      • 10.4.3. Surgery (Surgical Screen)
      • 10.4.4. Prescriptions (Bulk Printing Labels)
        • 10.4.4.1. Buoy & Lizzie’s Law
        • 10.4.4.2. Prescription Consult
        • 10.4.4.3. Logging Controlled Prescriptions
        • 10.4.4.4. Tests (Non-Idexx)
      • 10.4.5. Patient Flow How-To’s
        • 10.4.5.1. Correcting Mistakes (Undo Drugs)
        • 10.4.5.2. Closed vs Done Bottle
        • 10.4.5.3. Open a Closed Bottle
        • 10.4.5.4. Reopen a Done Bottle
        • 10.4.5.5. Close an Open Bottle
        • 10.4.5.6. Split a Dose Between 2 Bottles
        • 10.4.5.7. Applying a Non-Standard Drug Protocol
        • 10.4.5.8. Recording Medical Notes (Short Tags)
        • 10.4.5.9. Mixing & Adding a Bottle of TTDEX (or other compounded drug)
        • 10.4.5.10. Missing Animal(s) in PF
        • 10.4.5.11. Adding Other Controlled Substances to Patient Flow
        • 10.4.5.12. Automations, What Are They?
        • 10.4.5.13. Using PF with Paper Drug Logs (“Hybrid Version”)
      • 10.4.6. Occasional Situations
        • 10.4.6.1. Documenting Deaths
        • 10.4.6.2. Rechecks in Patient Flow
        • 10.4.6.3. High Risk Waiver Bulk Processing
        • 10.4.6.4. Holding Overnight
          • 10.4.6.4.1. Surgery Performed, Holding Overnight
          • 10.4.6.4.2. Surgery not performed, drugs drawn, holding overnight
          • 10.4.6.4.3. Surgery not performed, drugs not drawn, holding overnight
      • 10.4.7. Rare Situations
        • 10.4.7.1. AM Tasks
    • 10.5. Step 4B: Wellness Flow (Daily Task)
      • 10.5.1. Non-Anesthetic (Wellness) Flow
        • 10.5.1.1. Changing from Non-Anesthetic to Anesthetic
    • 10.6. Step 5: Check Out (Daily Task)
      • 10.6.1. Understanding Anesthetic vs. Non Anesthetic
      • 10.6.2. Staggard Pickups With AutoTexting
      • 10.6.3. Aftercare Documents (Take Home Paperwork)
        • 10.6.3.1. Printing
        • 10.6.3.2. Texting
        • 10.6.3.3. Emailing
        • 10.6.3.4. Ensuring the Foster Gets the Paperwork
        • 10.6.3.5. Aftercare Documents in the VCP
        • 10.6.3.6. QR Codes & Aftercare Video
      • 10.6.4. Collecting Payment From Public Clients
      • 10.6.5. Invoicing & Payments Volume Clients
      • 10.6.6. Microchip Auto Registration
      • 10.6.7. Healing Email
      • 10.6.8. Phased Out Tools
        • 10.6.8.1. Checkout Quick Entry
        • 10.6.8.2. Old Checkout
    • 10.7. Step 6: Closing the Drug Log (Daily Task)
      • 10.7.1. Editing the Drug Log
        • 10.7.1.1. Appending a Note to the Drug Log
      • 10.7.2. Where Does the Drug Log Save?
      • 10.7.3. Uncommon Issues
        • 10.7.3.1. Drug Logging Issues
        • 10.7.3.2. Drug Log Printing (Not Common)
  • 11. What To Do At The End of Your Day
    • 11.1. Making Sure All Clients Have Paid By The End of Day
    • 11.2. Creating Invoices for Volume Clients
    • 11.3. Reconciling Your Drawer
    • 11.4. Getting a Bank Deposit Ready
    • 11.5. Approving e-Appointments
  • 12. How to Discount Things (Subsidies)
    • 12.1. Deducting From a Pot of Funds
    • 12.2. Deducting When You’ll Invoice
    • 12.3. Employee Discounts
    • 12.4. Troubleshooting Subsidies
  • 13. Templates
    • 13.1. Merge Fields Master List
    • 13.2. HQ’s Surgical Consent Form Template
    • 13.3. HQ’s Wellness & Vaccine Consent Template
    • 13.4. HQ’s Visit Summary & Post Op Template
    • 13.5. HQ’s Vaccine Clinic Visit Summary Template
    • 13.6. HQ’s Surgical High Risk Waiver Template
    • 13.7. Miscellaneous Templates
    • 13.8. Adding Custom Fields to a Template
    • 13.9. Service Estimates
    • 13.10. Template Troubleshooting
  • 14. Volume Client Portal
    • 14.1. Setting Up the VCP
      • 14.1.1. VCP Setup – New Account
      • 14.1.2. VCP Setup – Connect Account for Multi-Clinic
    • 14.2. Features of the VCP
    • 14.3. VCP Login Help
    • 14.4. Managing VCP Users
  • 15. Integrations
    • 15.1. Idexx Tests
      • 15.1.1. 15.1.1 Ordering Tests
      • 15.1.2. 15.1.2 Results
      • 15.1.3. 15.1.3 Idexx Troubleshooting
    • 15.2. Microchips
      • 15.2.1. Petstablished Microchips
      • 15.2.2. 24PetWatch Microchips
    • 15.3. Shelterluv
  • 16. Client Management
    • 16.1. Understanding Client Types
    • 16.2. Merging Clients or Animals
      • 16.2.1. Merging Clients
      • 16.2.2. Merging Animals
    • 16.3. Changing Owners
    • 16.4. Setting Up Volume Clients
    • 16.5. Volume Client Owners
      • 16.5.1. Communicating with Volume Client Owners
    • 16.6. Client Tags
      • 16.6.1. Animal Caution
        • 16.6.1.1. Animal Behavior Tags
    • 16.7. Vaulting a Card
    • 16.8. Uploading Documents to a Client File
    • 16.9. Communication Logs
  • 17. Communications
    • 17.1. Appointment Confirmations
      • 17.1.1. Spay/Neuter Appt Confirmation Example
      • 17.1.2. Wellness Appt Confirmation Example
      • 17.1.3. Recheck Appt Confirmation Example
    • 17.2. Appointment Reminders
      • 17.2.1. Spay/Neuter Appt Reminder Example
      • 17.2.2. Wellness Appt Reminder Example
      • 17.2.3. Recheck Appt Reminder Example
    • 17.3. Customizing Confirmations and Reminders
      • 17.3.1. Turning On/Off Reminders
    • 17.4. Aftercare
      • 17.4.1. Take Home Paperwork
      • 17.4.2. The Healing Email
    • 17.5. The Medical Record
      • 17.5.1. Providing Copies of Medical Records
      • 17.5.2. Rabies Certificates
    • 17.6. Item Reminders
      • 17.6.1. Vaccine Reminders
    • 17.7. Texting
      • 17.7.1. Where do you see and send text messages
      • 17.7.2. Checkin Curbside Using Texting
      • 17.7.3. Setting Up Texting
      • 17.7.4. Cost Benefit Analysis for Texting
    • 17.8. HQ Chat
    • 17.9. Other Common Communication Situations
      • 17.9.1. Sending Announcements to Clients
  • 18. Accounting
    • 18.1. Accounting Public
    • 18.2. Accounting Volume
      • 18.2.1. Bill Volume Clients
      • 18.2.2. Apply Payment for Volume Client
        • 18.2.2.1. Owner/Caretaker Payment on Volume Appointment
      • 18.2.3. Adding & Deleting Items from VC Invoices
      • 18.2.4. AR Status & Resending Invoices
    • 18.3. Item Sales
    • 18.4. Subsidies
      • 18.4.1. Troubleshooting Subsidies
    • 18.5. Deposits
      • 18.5.1. Deposits on Internal Appointments
      • 18.5.2. Deposits on Online Appointments
      • 18.5.3. Managing Deposits
        • 18.5.3.1. Linking Unmatched Deposits
      • 18.5.4. Volume Client Deposits
      • 18.5.5. Taking a Deposit on a Vaulted Card
    • 18.6. Credit Cards
      • 18.6.1. How Credit Card Processing Works In HQ
      • 18.6.2. Batching Out
      • 18.6.3. Signing Up for Credit Card Processing
      • 18.6.4. Credit Card Via Machine
      • 18.6.5. Credit Card Processing Online
      • 18.6.6. Credit Card Troubleshooting
      • 18.6.7. Common Credit Card Decline Codes and Reasons
      • 18.6.8. Loss Prevention & Chargebacks
    • 18.7. Client Credits
    • 18.8. Write-Offs
    • 18.9. Donations
      • 18.9.1. Manual Donation Attached to Appointment
        • 18.9.1.1. Converting Deposits into Donations
      • 18.9.2. Manual Donation Not Attached to Appointment
      • 18.9.3. Donation & Goal Widgets
    • 18.10. Refunds
      • 18.10.1. Never Process Transactions in MX Merchant First!
    • 18.11. Accounting Tools
    • 18.12. Reconciliation
    • 18.13. Financial Reports
      • 18.13.1. Reconciling
      • 18.13.2. Matching bank deposits to MX Merchant
      • 18.13.3. Financial Export Per Vet
    • 18.14. Deleted Payment Log
    • 18.15. Taxable Sales
    • 18.16. Tax Setup & Exempts
    • 18.17. E-Pay & Card Vaulting
      • 18.17.1. Card Vaulting
      • 18.17.2. Troubleshooting E-Pay
    • 18.18. No Prices on Paperwork
  • 19. Reports
    • 19.1. Patient Metrics-Summary
    • 19.2. Patient Metrics- Details
    • 19.3. Patient Metrics- Master Report
    • 19.4. Patient Metrics- Microchip Export
    • 19.5. Service Metrics
    • 19.6. Item Prep
    • 19.7. Volume Client Metrics
    • 19.8. Geographic Metrics
    • 19.9. Executive Director Metrics
    • 19.10. Partnership Metrics
    • 19.11. No Shows
    • 19.12. Drug Log
    • 19.13. Donations Metrics
    • 19.14. Death
    • 19.15. Rabies Export
    • 19.16. Recheck
    • 19.17. Subsidies Summary
      • 19.17.1. Subsidies History
    • 19.18. Appointment Scheduling Report
    • 19.19. Priority Appointment Metrics
    • 19.20. Custom Reports
      • 19.20.1. Cool Custom Reports
    • 19.21. Tracking Colonies
    • 19.22. Special Reports
      • 19.22.1. PetSmart Charities Report
  • 20. Change / Audit Logs
  • 21. HQ Administration
    • 21.1. Data Migration
      • 21.1.1. Checklist for Migrating Data
    • 21.2. Subscription
    • 21.3. Multi-Clinic (More Than One Profile)
    • 21.4. Canceling HQ
    • 21.5. Terms of Service
    • 21.6. Privacy Policy
    • 21.7. Security
  • 22. HQ Settings
    • 22.1. Clinic Profile
      • 22.1.1. Breeds
    • 22.2. Users
      • 22.2.1. User Role Permissions
      • 22.2.2. Don’t Use Generic Logins
      • 22.2.3. User Login Troubleshooting
    • 22.3. Vets
    • 22.4. Services & Products
      • 22.4.1. Updating Prices
      • 22.4.2. Items We Cannot Add
    • 22.5. Packages
    • 22.6. Custom Fields
      • 22.6.1. Converting Custom Fields to Medical Notes
    • 22.7. Clinic Tags
    • 22.8. Vaccine Setup
      • 22.8.1. Non-Rabies Vaccines
    • 22.9. Integrations Setup
      • 22.9.1. Idexx Setup
        • 22.9.1.1. Idexx Troubleshooting
      • 22.9.2. ShelterLuv Add On Setup
    • 22.10. Divvy Setup
    • 22.11. Patient Flow Setup
      • 22.11.1. Drug Chart / Protocol Setup
      • 22.11.2. Setup and Manage Controlled Substances
        • 22.11.3. Automation Setup for Patient Flow
        • 22.11.4. Enabling Patient Flow
      • 22.12. Medical Notes Setup
        • 22.12.1. Auto Included in Setup
      • 22.13. High Risk Waiver Setup
      • 22.14. Prescription Labels
        • 22.14.1. Dymo Set Up
          • 22.14.1.1. Dymo Troubleshooting
      • 22.15. Microchip Preferences
      • 22.16. Capacity Management
      • 22.17. Wellness Settings
        • 22.17.1. Appointment Types
        • 22.17.2. Rooms
        • 22.17.3. Anesthetic or Mixed Service Wellness Considerations
        • 22.17.4. PetSmart Charities Report – Settings
      • 22.18. Templates Settings
      • 22.19. E-Appointments
        • 22.19.1. Priority Scheduling Setup
        • 22.19.2. Adding E-appointments to Your Website
      • 22.20. E-Payments
        • 22.20.1. Customizing E-Payment Email
        • 22.20.2. Credit Card Machine Setup
      • 22.21. Mobile Location Settings
      • 22.22. Confirmations and Reminders
      • 22.23. Medical Records Request
      • 22.24. Email Attachments
      • 22.25. Call & Text Add On
        • 22.25.1. Estimating Texting Costs
      • 22.26. e-Lobby
      • 22.27. Invoices
      • 22.28. Donations
      • 22.29. Funding Partnerships
      • 22.30. Subsidy Settings
        • 22.30.1. Employee Discounts
        • 22.30.2. Two Subsidies / One Item
        • 22.30.3. Sliding Scale Discounts
      • 22.31. Grantors
      • 22.32. VC Custom Pricing
      • 22.33. Tax Info
      • 22.34. QuickBooks
      • 22.35. Chat Settings
      • 22.36. OneLink E-Appointments (Multi-Clinic Only)
      • 22.37. VCP Settings
      • 22.38. Inventory
    • 23. Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
      • 23.1. Awesome Vaccine Clinics
        • 23.1.1. Setting Vaccine Clinic Schedule in HQ
        • 23.1.2. Pre-Clinic
          • 23.1.2.1. Curbside is Best
          • 23.1.2.2. How Many Can You Do?
          • 23.1.2.3. The Team
          • 23.1.2.4. Decide on Services
          • 23.1.2.5. Open Scheduler
          • 23.1.2.6. Approve Sign-Ups
          • 23.1.2.7. Forms
          • 23.1.2.8. Prepayments
        • 23.1.3. Fear-Free Animal Handling
    • 24. HQ Related
      • 24.1. All About HQ
        • 24.1.1. Our Story
          • 24.1.1.1. Documents
        • 24.1.2. The HQ Manifesto
        • 24.1.3. The Library
          • 24.1.3.1. Case Studies
          • 24.1.3.2. Guidelines
        • 24.1.4. Training Videos
        • 24.1.5. Community
        • 24.1.6. What To Do When HQ is Down
          • 24.1.6.1. The Vault
    • 25. HQ Help & Training
      • 25.1. Community Support
      • 25.2. Quizzes
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    22.9. Integrations Setup

    22.8.1. Non-Rabies Vaccines
    22.9.1. Idexx Setup
    22.8.1. Non-Rabies Vaccines
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