Labs Product Setup

Products in VetView are the actual line items that will be billed to clients.  While Catalogs and Catalog Items refer to the documentation associated with work to be performed, the Products are stored separately in the database to allow you to reuse them across many catalog items.  Products also can be used for services that are not necessarily associated with documentation, such as accession fees, shipping costs, and other expenses and charges that will be added during the course of any given accession.

For specific tests, you can build a product that has the same name and a one to one association with a given catalog item.   Thus, the catalog item is the link between the Product (charge) and the actual test to be performed (as well as other attributes, such as questions to be asked by the submitting client, and specimen restrictions.  See Labs Catalog Setup for more information.)  

There are five tabs on the Labs Product Setup Screen.  The first tab, Product Setup, is the main tab for creating, viewing, and modifying the attributes of each product in the system.  Each of the four other tabs allows you to define the values of the attributes.

Click on a tab name to the right (under the Table of Contents) to jump directly to that section.

Product Setup Tab

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Product Cap Setup

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Product Line Setup

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Product Category Setup

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Price Set Setup

Price Sets allow you to define a custom multiplier for specific groups of clients.  These are created by multiples of the base price.  For example, employees who qualify for a 20% employee discount would have a multiplier of 0.80 defined.  This discount will be calculated in real time as charges are added, or can be applied via a re-calculation if the values change. 

Click on the Add button to create a new price set.  A small window will open up to allow you to name the price set, and to add in the multiplier.

Another example:  Overflow testing of COVID for human labs could be set to incur a 50% mark up over base price, in addition to any regular STAT fees added to the accession. 

All custom price sets need to be discussed with accounting and other relevant governing bodies and set in accordance with the policies for your lab.