Admin Scheduler Help
Open ACU is a schedule and health records online software for acupuncturists. The Open ACU admin is the main hub for all things Open ACU.
Getting Started
All the setup and preparation for opening a new Open ACU account.
Getting Started Checklist
Your Open ACU account has a main portal for the administrative and practitioner staff to enter an...
Settings and Templates
Your settings page is where you set your application preferences, templates and rules for your ac...
Users
To add or manage a User, click on the Users page from the main menu. Different user types have ...
Locations
Open ACU gives all accounts 2 free active locations. You can add a location to your account for $...
Services
Every schedule block is required to be assigned one or more Service choices; therefore you will n...
Add Practitioner Bios to Patient Portal
You can add your practitioners (and owners) biographies to your patient portal site. To add Bio...
Scheduling
Creating blocks and appointments on your schedule.
Blocks
Blocks are the shifts within your schedule. When you create Blocks, you'll assign a practitioner,...
Saving Block Styles and Using Them
Any block can be used as a template of sorts, saving that block as a block style. Block styles in...
Scheduling an appointment
If you have not created any blocks, please do so prior to scheduling any appointments. Open ACU l...
Checking In
Once an appointment is set by placing it on a block you are ready for patients to arrive. Upon ar...
The Checkin Transaction
In Open ACU you cannot edit transactions, checkins or otherwise. When you checkin a patient into...
Check in without recording a transaction
You can check in a patient without recording a transaction by enabling the checkin without transa...
Canceling Appointments
Appointments can be cancelled by an admin under the following rules: If the appointment has no...
Waiting Lists
Each day / location combination can have a waiting list. Adding a patient to the waiting list F...
Squeeze Appointments
Sometimes you have your schedule set, full of appointments and someone calls. What do you do? Squ...
Day Notification
You can use the Day Notification to alert your patients and staff to any pertinent information th...
Recording a note prior to checkin
If you want to record a note on an appointment prior to the check-in, you'll click on the check-i...
Text message appointment reminders
Your clinic has the option to send SMS/text message appointment reminders in addition to email re...
Text Reminders: Codes Key
If you have text reminders with your Open ACU account you can edit the verbiage in the messages s...
Reverse A Checked-In & Paid-For Appointment
An Open ACU appointment is either checked-in or not checked-in. The payment for an appointment is...
Move an appointment with drag and drop
If you want to move an appointment to a different time within the same Block, you can do so throu...
Telehealth
To create a Telehealth Service, you’ll add it on your Services page. Check the “Telehealth” check...
Patient Portal: No Available Indicator
There is a feature on the patient portal that indicates days that have no available appointments....
Patients
Everything regarding the patient for editing and interacting with the information. You can dow...
The Open ACU Patient Portal
Your patients can interact with their account and your clinic through the Open ACU Patient Portal...
Creating New Patients
A patient remains "New" until they checkin to their first appointment. Or you uncheck the "new" i...
Importing Patients
You can import patients if you have a CSV file of the patients you wish to add. To Import Patien...
Patient Profile
Each patient has an extensive profile page with a lot of interactive information available. The p...
Patient Icons
On the schedule grid or the All Patients page each patient can have a number of icons displayed w...
Include or Omit Insurance Fields on Patient Portal
When a patient logs into the patient portal they are given a profile to manage. This profile enab...
Duplicate Patients
The Duplicate Patients page shows a list of patients with duplicate names. You can get to this pa...
Inactive Patients
Sometimes you need to prevent a patient from making appointments or for your receptionist from do...
Patient activity logs
All patient activity is logged on the Patient Profile page. Patient Log The Patient Log shows ...
Printable Transaction Statement for a Patient
From the patient's profile page you can print a styled and branded transaction statement for pati...
Appointment Notes on Invoices
When you check in a patient and record their transaction, any notes you record in the Add a Note ...
Transactions
How to record and edit transactional information.
Recording the check-in transaction
All transactional information related to an appointment can be recorded when you check in a patie...
Editing a transaction
In Open ACU you cannot edit transactions, checkins or otherwise. To edit a transaction you’ve al...
Recording a transaction without a check-in
To record a transaction that isn’t connected with an appointment, you’ll use the Purchase Transac...
Reversing a Transaction
Sometimes you create a transaction and there was an error or the credit card failed. In Open ACU ...
Tokens and Credits
How to use the tokens and credits systems
Tokens and Credits Overview
Tokens and Credits are a way to track account balances for individual patients. Tokens Tokens r...
Using tokens and credits for payments and fees
Using for payments Patients have the option of using tokens and/or credits to pay for their trea...
Manually changing credit/debit and token balances
Note: to see how to add tokens, credits or debits to a patient account during a checkin or purcha...
Purchasing Tokens and Credits
Tokens, credits and debits can all be added to a patient's account during the Checkin Transaction...
Reports
Making sense of all your data in Open Acu.
Appointment Report
The Appointment Report shows all appointments for a given range. When running an appointment repo...
Transaction Report
The Transaction Report shows all transactions for a given range. When running a transaction repor...
Cancelation Report
The Cancelation Report shows all canceled appointments for a given range. To run a cancelation re...
Practitioner Reports
There are two practitioner reports that can be accessed from the Dashboard: the Totals Summary an...
Detail TRXN Report
The Detail TRXN Report is similar to the Transaction Report in that it shows all transactions for...
The Appointment Log
Getting to the appointment log. The appointment log opens as a modal window from the context of ...
Downloading Patient Email Addresses
You can easily download a list of patient email addresses from the Patient Return Rate report, lo...
Service Report
The Service Report shows all appointments for a specific Service in given range. Here's a video...
Taking Credit Cards
Start Taking Credit Cards
To take credit card payments within Open ACU you will need to add the feature to your account and...
Adding a Patient's Credit Card
You can save multiple credit card payment method for each patient for applying payments for appoi...
Taking Payments with Stripe
Using a stored card A patient with a stored credit card will have a credit card icon next to t...
Charging Late Cancellation Fees with Stripe
If a patient has a stored card, you’ll see the option to charge a cancellation fee their stored...
Issuing Refunds with Stripe
Any refunds and checkin reversals are recorded as a new transaction that has a negative value. ...
Receipts
Send a receipt via email You can send a credit card receipt via email directly from the schedule...
Reader Unreachable?
If your Stripe Reader fails to take a payment and gives you this error. First check that the r...