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Use case · dentalThe Record · the audit log2 minute read

Showing an associate their production without an argument

Every line of a compensation statement traces back to the visit it came from, so pay period conversations start from the ledger rather than

The Record, seen from above on the Cabinet floor plan.
Exhibit 1. The Record, at its place in the room.

Associate compensation depends on production or collections net of lab fees, and the calculation is rebuilt by hand each period from the ledger. The associate cannot see how their number was reached, so every pay period ends in a conversation about which case was credited to whom and whether a lab bill was deducted twice. If you own a dental group, that is a desk in your own business.

What the work is

An agent that assembles each associate’s period statement from the ledger and the lab invoices: production credited by procedure, collections received, adjustments and lab fees deducted, each line traceable to the visit it came from. The statement is presented for the practice administrator to approve before anyone is paid. In the Cabinet, ArkOne’s reference design for an executive agent, this is the People seat: one of ten specialists the room can consult, each a name, a model and a set of instructions rather than a department.

The part of the design carrying the weight here is the record, and the setting that governs it is stated once on the Register.

What it does not do

Interpreting an associate’s contract where its terms are ambiguous, and settling a disputed credit, is the practice administrator’s judgement and not the agent’s. That is not a limitation of the software. It is the line the reference design draws on purpose, and a vendor who offers to move it is selling you something else.

What changes

Every line of a compensation statement traces back to the visit it came from, so pay period conversations start from the ledger rather than from memory.

Take associate agreement, production credit, collections basis into the demonstration and use them without explaining them. A vendor whose agent handles this work already knows those words; one who asks what they mean is showing you a system built for a different trade.

Next in this edition: Orthodontic contracts that keep paying, and brackets that do not wait.

By evening

Drag the day. This work is owned by the People seat, and one hour of it is not the machine's to decide.

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Assembly · the Seats

The Seat that owns this work gathers what it needs and drafts. This is the part a demonstration shows you, and it is the part that cannot break anything.

What you have at five: Every line of a compensation statement traces back to the visit it came from, so pay period conversations start from the ledger rather than

The hours are a shape, not a schedule. What is fixed is the order: nothing reaches a system you run before the Door, and nothing continues past the wait without a person.

See it against your own week

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