End of Year Process

 

As the year draws to a close, please be aware that the minfos® system will perform housekeeping functions. The End of Year Process will run automatically on the 31st December 2011. It is also very important that you pick up your Dispense Updates well before 31st of December 2011, you shall receive an email detailing how to do your January 2012 dispense shortly.

 

Important Note:

Please ensure all stations are logged off minfos® before leaving for the day and the server is showing Zero Connections. You MUST only leave Automation Manager running.

Accounting System

minfos® customers that are using minfos® accounting system, there is no rollover process required.

Dispense System

End of year process does the following

  • General Customer – Safety Net amount cleared
  • Concession Customers – Safety Net amount cleared and reverts patients status back to General
  • Repatriation Customers – Safety Net amount cleared – Safety net number is cleared if available – Customer status left at Repat
  • Entitlement Customers – Safety Net amount cleared – Safety Net number is cleared – left at Concession status.

Processing Last Dispense Claim for the Year

As a precaution, we highly recommend that you close and process your dispense claim by evening of 31/12 (after trading for the day has completed). You should close and process the claim at the same time. This will prevent errors from appearing when reconciling scripts due to missing Concession / Safety Net numbers because the End of Year Process has cleared them. When processing your last claim for 2011, make sure the option 'The Last Claim for the Year' is ticked. This will make the next claim number 1201.

How to Run End of Year Process Manually

If the automatic end of year process has not run (e.g. customers retain their Concession and Safety Net numbers after 31st December 11), you can manually run this process by:

Important Note:
This process is only to be run if your End of Year Process did not run automatically or it failed. No one can use minfos® on any other stations while this process is running.

  • minfos® launch Pad / Dispense / Dispense Pro / Maintenance / Y. Year End Process


     
  • Tick both boxes and click OK


  • Process can take up to 30 mins or more to complete. Please ensure that the end of the year process finishes before anyone logs back into minfos®

If you have any queries, please log a call with minfos® support during normal business hours (Monday - Friday 8.00am to 6.00pm).

From all of us here at minfos® support we wish you a very safe and Happy Festive Season.
 

Yours sincerely,

Support - minfos®


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