Invoices and payments

How Cerawave invoices work: itemised lines, GST snapshots, A4 receipts, and recording cash, UPI, or card payments the clinic collected itself.

Reception staff and practice owners4 min read

Itemised, with tax frozen on the line

An invoice is built from lines. Each line carries its own GST rate, and the computed tax is stored as a snapshot against that line.

Freezing it matters: a rate change later must not silently rewrite an invoice a patient already holds.

Recording what was collected

Payments record what the patient actually handed over and by which method, against the invoice it settles.

Cerawave is a ledger here, not a gateway. The money moves the way it already does at your front desk, and Cerawave records it.

Printing

Invoices and receipts print to A4, which is what a patient asking for a bill in an Indian clinic expects to be handed.

The print is generated from the stored invoice, so reprints match the original.

Common questions

Can patients pay online through Cerawave?
No. Patients pay the clinic directly by cash, UPI, or your own card terminal. Cerawave records the payment; it does not process it.
What happens to an old invoice if I change a GST rate?
Nothing. The tax on each line is stored as a snapshot when the invoice is raised, so past invoices do not move.