Dentora
العربية

Settings

Make Dentora fit your clinic: its details and logo on every printout, the currency, tax and invoice numbering, the language, font and appearance, the working hours and auto-lock.

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The Settings page

Open Settings from the sidebar or from your account menu. A list of its sections runs down the side of the page: Clinic, Preferences, Billing & currency, Backup & data, Licence and About.

This page covers every section except two that have pages of their own: Backup and Licence. Adding your team and their permissions is in Staff and permissions.

  1. Open Settings from the sidebar.
  2. Pick a section from the list.
  3. Make your changes. In Clinic and Billing & currency a You have unsaved changes bar appears at the bottom: click Save changes, or Discard to throw your edits away. Most Preferences are saved the moment you click.
The Settings page on Clinic, with the section list and the save barEnlarge the picture
The save bar appears at the bottom as soon as you change something.
Settings on a phone: the sections as buttons at the topEnlarge the picture

Clinic details

This is your clinic’s identity as it appears at the top of printed invoices, prescriptions and treatment plans, at the top of the sidebar and on the sign-in screen.

  1. Open Settings → Clinic.
  2. Click Upload logo and choose your logo picture. Later you can Change logo or Remove it.
  3. Type the Clinic name and, if you like, the Name in English and a Tagline, such as the clinic’s specialty or its doctor’s name.
  4. Under Contact & address add the Phone, Other phone, Email, Website and Address.
  5. Check the Country. It stays on the automatic choice, from the currency, unless you pick another.
  6. Watch the Invoice header preview update as you type, then click Save changes.
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The Contact & address card with the country, and the invoice header previewEnlarge the picture

Currency and how amounts look

In Billing & currency you choose the clinic’s currency and how amounts are written. A Live preview at the top updates with every change, before you save: how amounts look, the next invoice number, the next patient file number and a sample invoice.

  1. Open Settings → Billing & currency.
  2. Choose the Clinic currency. If yours is not listed, choose Another currency… and type its Latin Currency code.
  3. Change the Symbol on invoices if you prefer another symbol next to every amount.
  4. Choose the Decimals: None, Two (0.00) or Three (0.000).
  5. Click Save changes.
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Tax, invoice numbering and printed notes

  1. Under Invoices & numbering type the Tax rate, or leave it at 0 if your clinic charges no tax.
  2. If the clinic is registered for VAT, type the Clinic tax number: it is printed on tax invoices.
  3. Change the Invoice number prefix if you like. An invoice number is the prefix followed by six digits, such as INV-000306.
  4. Adjust the Next invoice number and Next patient file number if you want numbering to carry on from your clinic’s old records.
  5. Under Printed notes write the Invoice footer and the Prescription footer: short texts printed at the bottom.
  6. Click Save changes.
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Language, month names, font and appearance

In Preferences each settings card carries a badge saying who it applies to: All users or This device. Language, month names, font, appearance and auto-lock are saved the moment you choose them, with no save button; Working days & hours has its own save button (see below).

  1. Open Settings → Preferences.
  2. Under Interface language choose العربية or English. Screens and printouts switch at once.
  3. Under Arabic month names choose Automatic, from the country, كانون الثاني، شباط… or يناير، فبراير…. Each choice shows today’s date as an example.
  4. Under Interface font click the font you find most comfortable; it changes at once on this device.
  5. Under Appearance choose Light or Dark.
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Choosing the interface font and the light or dark appearanceEnlarge the picture

Working days and hours

The appointments calendar and its free slots are built on your working days and hours. This section has its own save button.

  1. In Preferences → Working days & hours, click days under Working days to select or clear them.
  2. Set Opens at and Closes at.
  3. Choose the Calendar grid step: the time between calendar lines, 15, 20 or 30 minutes or 1 hour.
  4. Choose the Default appointment length suggested when booking, from 15 minutes to 2 hours.
  5. Click Save working hours.
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Auto-lock

Dentora locks itself after a period without use: it goes back to the sign-in screen and asks for a PIN. That keeps patient files safe on a device left open.

  1. In Preferences → Auto-lock, open Lock after inactivity.
  2. Choose after 5, 15 or 30 minutes, after 1 hour, or Never lock automatically. Your choice shows under Current setting.
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About

About shows your Dentora version, the platform it runs on (Windows or Android), where the data is kept, and the Device number. Its Help card opens the User guide (this guide) and the Video tutorials on Dentora’s website, and it also lists what Dentora does and the Keyboard shortcuts.

  1. Open Settings → About.
  2. Under Help click User guide or Video tutorials: the page opens in your browser, so you need the internet.
  3. Under Privacy & terms click Privacy policy, Terms of use or Open-source licences to read them.
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Privacy & terms in AboutEnlarge the picture