Opening Balances: Medical Aid

The function will be used when the practice starts on GoodX for the first time and wants to bring debtors medical aid closing balances from a previous system. These are amounts that still need to be collected from the medical aid. This will assist the practice to get a correct age analysis.

  • Sign in to the GoodX Desktop App using your GoodX username and password.
  • Double click on the MedDebs module

  • Click on the Batch transactions tab

  • From the drop-down, click the Opening Balances: Medical aid

  • Click on the correct financial period, click on the OK button or F2 on your keyboard


  • Click on the Medical aid option from Post to account

  • Complete the following information:
    • Description: The system will automatically pull through the Opening Balance description
    • Post to account: Where the account should be posted to
      • Medical Aid: The opening balance account should be posted to the patient's medical aid
      • Patient/Private: The opening balance account should be posted to the private patient because they pay for the account themselves and not through the medical aid
    • Post as: Post the opening balance as a procedure or as medicine
      • Procedure: When the patient has been for an operation of some sort you should click on the procedure option
      • Medicine: When the patient needs to get medicine, you should click on the medicine option

  • Click on Import data


  • Click on the ellipse (...) to import the correct file


  • Complete the correct information and click on the Process text file
  • Click on the Close button
  • Enter the correct Contra Account and Date


  • Click on the OK button
  • Click on OK (again) to confirm the journal batch

Last modified: Wednesday, 23 December 2020, 9:11 AM