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What does the Facility Manager role do?

Updated over 2 weeks ago

The Facility Manager is a role designed for a representative of your healthcare facilities, to be able to access and view Event data directly in Beacon. In may ways a Facility Manager is like a Sales Representative user, but only for individual Facilities.

So what can a Facility Manager do?

  • The Facility Manager is a user account you may grant to representatives at the healthcare facilities where you do business

  • Each Facility may have more than 1 Facility Manager

  • Each Facility Manager may have multiple Facilities assigned to them

  • The Facility Manager may log into Beacon

  • The Facility Manager may view all Events assigned to their Facilities

  • The Facility Manager may view all Events assigned to them

  • The Facility Manager may create new cases at their Facilities for themselves only

  • If the "Add Directory Records" setting is turned to ON in the User Settings, the user will be allowed to add Procedures and Physicians to the Directory.

  • The facility Manager may access and VIEW the Product Catalog.

  • The Facility Manager may create inventory for themselves only.

  • The Facility Manager may create inventory by scanning UDI.

  • The Facility Manager may request inventory, and may request an inventory due back extension.

  • Facility Managers may use Quick Transfers to obtain inventory from Quick Transfer Locations

  • Facility Managers may transfer inventory to other users associated with their Facilities and the ORG

  • Facility Managers may mark inventory as used in their Events ONLY, using ONLY inventory in their custody.

What may Facility Managers NOT do?

  • The Facility Manager may not see or change events or inventory not tied to their account and their Facility.

  • The Facility Manager may not create or edit Facilities in the Directory, but they may view their Facilities and Facility Pricing assigned to them.

  • The facility manager may not create Stock Adjustment events

  • The Facility manager may not change the commission paid, invoice paid, or processed statuses on an Event; They may also not mark an Event as paid.

  • The Facility Manager may not generate, email, or share Invoices

  • The Facility Manager may not approve a quote

  • The Facility May not export a sales order to an integrated financial system, such as Quickbooks or Xero.

  • The Facility Manager may not change the assigned representative on an Event.

How do I set up a Facility Manager?

Your options for creating a Facility Manager are the same as any other user, which are found here.

Key things to remember:

  • When creating the user, select the role "Facility Manager"

  • Don't forget to mark the user as "Training Complete" before giving them access to the system

  • Be sure to set their directory assignments, so they will have access to their appropriate Facilities

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