Dental practices
DSO and group practice reporting across locations
Updated 10 September 2026 · 6 min read
A group needs four things from payment reporting: collections per location, collections per provider, receivables ageing per site, and clean CSV exports. Run one account with locations underneath rather than separate systems per site, and the group view exists without anyone consolidating spreadsheets.
The consolidation tax
Groups that grow by acquisition inherit a different payment setup at every site, and someone spends the first week of every month merging exports that do not agree.
That work produces no insight. It exists purely because the data was never captured in one place.
One account, locations underneath
Each site keeps its own books, staff access and reporting, while the group sees the total and the comparison. Payments are tagged to the location that collected them at the moment of collection.
Payouts still settle through your own Stripe account arrangements, so nothing about banking changes to get group reporting.
The four reports that matter
Collections per location per month shows performance. Collections per provider settles associate pay. Receivables ageing per site shows where collection discipline has slipped. Fees and payouts show the true cost line.
Everything else is a variation of these four and can wait.
Access and offboarding
Group finance needs read access everywhere; site managers need their own site. Both are granted per person, which also means access is removed the day someone leaves.
For a group, this is a compliance point as much as an operational one.
Frequently asked
- Do we need one account per practice?
- No. One account with locations underneath gives per-site books and a group-level view together.
- Can regional managers be limited to their sites?
- Yes, access is granted per person and scoped to locations.
- Can finance export everything?
- Yes, reports export to CSV for consolidation in the group's own finance tools.
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