When you receive a specimen in your biobank, there are many things a specimen goes through, such as further processing, freeze/thaw cycles, temporary storage fees, etc., which are funded by internal or external resources. OpenSpecimen’s invoicing feature allows you to capture all this information.

Distribution Invoicing

Once specimens have been selected and are ready for distribution, you should be able to select one or more services, units, and costs.
The system should be able to calculate the total cost automatically.
You should be able to view invoice history for submitted distribution orders.

Steps

Select the specimens you want to distribute.

Click on the “Actions“ button → Distribute.

Click on Distribute → Add More Details

Under the Invoice tab, click on the “Add Service“ button.

Download Invoice

To download the invoice for distributed specimens, select the order you want to download the invoice from the “Orders list-view” page → Download Invoice.