Why didn't the sibling discount apply?
The rule picks the younger children by date of birth at billing time. Separate families, a missing DOB or plan, or a date window are the usual causes.
The sibling discount is worked out at billing time, by the children's ages. NestliCare orders a family's children by date of birth and applies the rule to the younger ones. You never tag a child as "the second child".
So when it does not apply, check:
- Are the children in the same family? Siblings split across two family cards look like two only children.
- Do both children have a date of birth? A child with no DOB is sorted last, as if youngest, so the discount may land on them instead of the actual younger child. Fill it in on the child's profile.
- Is every sibling on a billing plan? Only children billed on this invoice through a plan count. A sibling with no plan doesn't, so the other child is billed as an only child.
- Does the discount's date window overlap the invoice's billing period? A rule with an end date stops firing once no part of a period overlaps it.
- Was the discount active before the invoice was generated? Discounts apply at generation time. A rule you added today reaches the next invoice, never existing ones.
Fix the cause, then have a super admin void the wrong invoice and create a corrected one; existing invoices keep their original figures.
Related: Subsidies and discounts, Credits and referral bonuses.
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A subsidy covers part of tuition. How do I charge the family a share of the difference?
Enter the agency's weekly amount as a monthly award, then add a fixed family discount for the part of the gap you waive. The family's invoice comes out to their co-pay plus their share of the gap.
Credit or discount, which one do I want?
Does it repeat? A rate a family always gets is a discount. A one-time amount you owe them, like a referral bonus, is a credit.
Can auto-invoicing double-bill a family?
Not on its own. Mixing manual invoices with auto-generation used to, so a family you already billed by hand now gets the automatic invoice as a draft, and the first run after you turn it on is never sent.
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