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About streamlined estimates

Streamlined estimates is a new pilot feature for ezyVet. The pilot feature includes new functions and user interface changes that decrease the manual work necessary for estimates.

Important: If your ezyVet site uses the streamlined estimates feature, you cannot add sales templates to estimates. IDEXX will make sales templates compatible with streamlined estimates during quarter one of 2025.
The streamlined estimates feature makes estimates better and much easier to use because:
  • You can add product bundles to estimates
  • ezyVet continuously and automatically saves changes while you make an estimate
  • You have easy access to buttons to send estimates to clients with email and SMS
  • You can easily decline estimate line items and put them back
  • ezyVet automatically changes estimate statuses and shows statuses clearly
  • The estimates screen is clear and easy to use
Figure 1. The estimates screen

The estimates screen
Note: If your ezyVet site uses the streamlined estimates pilot feature, you cannot change back to the legacy estimates system.

Product bundles and estimates

The streamlined estimates feature is compatible with product bundles. As a result, you can quickly and easily add a product bundle to an estimate line item.

If an estimate line item has a product bundle, you can make changes to the item quantities of the product bundle directly from the line item. To make changes, select the pencil button. Then, use the dialog box that shows to enter applicable quantity values.

Figure 2. Pencil button for a line item


Figure 3. Quantity values for a product bundle


Miscellaneous products

If necessary, you can add a miscellaneous product to an estimate. A miscellaneous product is one that that you can manually make changes to its name and unit price. The primary function of a miscellaneous product is when a dedicated product for the estimate is not available.

To add a miscellaneous product:
  1. Select + Add miscellaneous
  2. Select an applicable product
  3. Enter a name for the product as you want the estimate to show it
  4. Enter the price as you want the estimate to show it

An estimate line item that has a miscellaneous product shows a pencil button. Select the button to make more changes to the product name and price.

Note: The available products that you can select as a miscellaneous product are from ezyVet product records. And these types of product record are not available to select as a miscellaneous product:
  • Product bundles
  • Product packages
  • Product containers
A staff member at Callisto Vets makes an estimate for a lumpectomy. The size and quantity of lumps can have an effect on the price of the lumpectomy. To make it easier to add the lumpectomy to the estimate, the staff member adds a general lumpectomy product as a miscellaneous product to the estimate. Then:
  • They change the product name to specify the diameter and number of lumps
  • They change the product unit price as applicable

Declined items

Each estimate line item shows a Decline button that you can select to decline the line item. Declined line items show clearly in a dedicated area in the estimates screen:
Declined line items
Each declined line item shows Restore button that you can select to easily move the line item back to the estimate:
The restore button

Initial values of estimate line items

The estimates screen can show a Reset items button. Use Reset items to set one or more products to initial values. For example, if you make changes to a product price and discount, select Reset items to set the product to its initial values. The product record settings are the source of the initial values.

To show the Reset items button, select the applicable product line items in the estimate:
The Reset items button

Discounts for estimate line items

The estimates screen can show a Discount button that you can select set a discount for one or more estimate line items. To show the Discount button, select the applicable product line items in the estimate:
The Discount button

After you select Discount, ezyVet shows a dialog box that you can use to enter a discount percentage and to select a price adjustment reason.

Sales templates and estimates

The streamlined estimates feature is compatible with sales templates. As a result, you can quickly and easily add many products and items to an estimate at the same time.

Send estimates to clients

The estimates screen for streamlined estimates has a Share with client button that makes it easy to send an estimate with SMS or email:
The Share with client button

When a client receives the estimate, they can enter an electronic signature to accept it. After they enter a signature, ezyVet automatically changes the estimate to the correct status.

Note: To send estimates to clients for an electronic signature, your ezyVet site must have the correct configuration for remote signatures.

Estimate copies

The estimates screen of the streamlined estimates feature shows a Copy button. Use the button to quickly and easily make a copy of an estimate.

Figure 4. The Copy button

The Copy button

After you select Copy, ezyVet shows a Copy estimate dialog box. Use the dialog box to make changes to the information to the estimate copy that ezyVet will make. For example, compared to the source estimate, you can select a different patient or client, and you can change the estimate name.

Figure 5. The Copy estimate dialog box

The Copy estimate dialog box

Estimate printing

The streamlined estimates feature has two methods that you can use to print an estimate. The easiest method is to open the applicable estimate, then select Print. As a result, ezyVet immediately prints the estimate or shows a PDF of the estimate that you can print.

Figure 6. Print button
The Print button
As an alternative, you can use the Print (PDF) button that shows after you do these steps:
  1. Open the applicable estimate.
  2. Select Share with client.
  3. In the new record tab that ezyVet opens, select Save.
Figure 7. Print (PDF) button
The Print (PDF) button
Note: A product bundle has dedicated configuration settings that control how the product bundle shows in:
  • PDF documents that you make from estimates
  • Estimates that show in presenting mode in ezyVet
  • Estimates that show in in a web page for a client remote signature
A product bundle in a PDF document, presenting mode, or a web page can show:
  • Only the total price and name of the product bundle
  • The product bundle name and total price, and all bundle items with their prices
  • The product bundle name and total prices, and all bundle items without their prices

For more information, refer to the documentation about print configuration settings for product bundles .

For more information

If you want to try streamlined estimates:
  1. Go to www.ezyvet.com/piloting-projects
  2. In the Pilot Programs box, select New Estimates, with Bundles
  3. Enter the remaining information, then select Submit.