Payment automation collects balances with minimal manual effort using text-to-pay links, card-on-file options, and automatic payment posting to the ledger.
Payment automation in dental practices replaces the mailed statement and follow-up phone calls with same-day text-to-pay links and card-on-file charges — collecting patient balances faster and with less staff effort.
Balances that could have been collected at checkout become statements because the amount was not ready. Statements sit in mailboxes for weeks.
At checkout, the patient portion is already known. Anything remaining triggers a text-to-pay link the same day. Unpaid balances get automated reminders.
Yes. Consumer payment research consistently shows strong preference for digital payment options over mailed statements.
Manual posting is the invisible tax of payments. Automated posting writes each payment to the correct patient ledger the moment it settles.
A payment link sent by text that lets the patient pay a balance from their phone in about a minute.
Yes, when handled through a properly certified payment platform that tokenizes card data.
For most balances, digital collection resolves payment before a statement is needed.
Simple and assumptive: your portion today is $142, would you like to use the card we have on file or another?