CareLite.
Hospital management software · up to 30 beds

Every rupee your hospital earns, actually reaches your account

CareLite runs registration, OPD, IPD, emergency, billing, corporate accounts and doctor payouts for nursing homes and small hospitals. Set it up yourself in a day. No implementation project, no IT department, no per-screen training.

No card, no call, no implementation project · Set yourself up and bill your first patient today

20+ yearsCaresoft has built hospital software since 2004
1,000+hospitals already run on Caresoft systems
12+countries, including across Africa
CMMI L5with ISO 27001 and PCI DSS
Why small hospitals leak money

A 30-bed hospital has the same money problems as a 300-bed one

Company tariffs. Interim bills. Discounts nobody approved. Doctor commissions worked out on a calculator. Cash that leaves the counter and never reaches the books. What a small hospital does not have is a team to run a two-year software project to fix it.

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Running on registers and spreadsheets

Bed charges remembered at discharge. A discount given verbally and forgotten. A company bill raised two months late, if at all. By the time the month closes, nobody can say what was earned and what walked out.

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Or paying for software built for a 300-bed hospital

Modules you will never switch on, screens designed for someone else's workflow, and a licence that assumes you have IT staff. Six months of implementation before a single patient is billed.

What changes in week one

Not features. Outcomes you can check on Friday evening

1

The counter stops being the bottleneck

Find the patient, add services, apply a discount, take part cash and part card, print the receipt — one screen, no navigation. Rates come from the tariff, so the clerk is never guessing and never undercharging.

2

Bed charges post themselves

Every admitted patient is charged for every day, at that ward's rate, whether or not anyone remembers at discharge. Transfers charge the old bed up to the moment of the move. This alone usually pays for the software.

3

Discounts need a name against them

Each user gets a ceiling. Above it, a bill will not save without a recorded approver and a reason. Every discount given this month is one report away.

4

Company money gets chased on time

Each corporate bill splits into company share and patient share by itself. Invoices are raised for a period in one click, and an ageing view shows exactly who has been sitting on your money for ninety days.

5

Doctor payouts stop being an argument

Set the commission rule once — by service, by group, percentage or fixed, on billed or only on collected. Cancel a bill and its commission reverses on its own. No month-end spreadsheet, no reconciliation meeting.

6

The day closes in three numbers

Cash in the drawer against the cash report. Card and UPI against the bank. Billed less received against outstanding. If those three agree, the day is clean — and you can check it from your phone.

What is inside

Everything the front office and the finance desk need

One system from the moment a patient walks in to the moment the money is banked and the doctor is paid.

UH
Front desk

Registration & UHID

One number per patient for life, with duplicate detection at the counter so the same person never ends up with three records and three balances.

OP
Outpatient

OPD

Visit, doctor, services, discount, payment and printed receipt without leaving the screen. Corporate patients pick up their company rates automatically.

IP
Wards

IPD & bed board

Live bed status, admissions, transfers, advances, automatic bed charges, interim bills and a discharge that settles cleanly in one action.

ER
Casualty

Emergency

Register an unknown patient with no name and bill immediately. Identify them later without losing the UHID or a single charge already raised.

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Money

Billing & receipts

One engine for OPD, IPD and emergency. Split-mode payments, advances, refunds as separate documents, and nothing ever deleted.

Co
Credit

Corporate billing

Company tariffs, automatic share split, periodic invoices, credit terms and an ageing view of everything outstanding.

Dr
Consultants

Doctor payout

Commission rules that calculate themselves from the bills and reverse automatically when a bill is cancelled. Settle a month into one document.

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Owner

Reports & day book

Collection, outstanding, discount, cancellation, doctor and corporate reports — plus a day book and cash book. All printable on your letterhead, all exportable to Excel.

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Control

Audit trail

Who did what, when, to which bill, with the value before and after. Insert-only. The report an NABH assessor asks for first.

Plug and play

You set it up. Not us, not next quarter

CareLite is priced for a small hospital, so it is built to be run by one. Everything that normally needs a consultant is a template and a preview screen.

  • Download an Excel template for doctors, wards, beds, services, companies and tariffs
  • Upload it and see exactly what will be added, updated or skipped before anything saves
  • A bad row is listed with the reason — fix the sheet and upload again, nothing breaks
  • Print on plain paper with your logo, or leave the top blank for your own letterhead
  • Add your own users and decide what each of them may see and do
Straight answer

What CareLite does, and what it deliberately does not

Most hospital software projects fail because the scope was implied and not stated. Here it is, before you buy rather than during implementation.

Included

  • Patient registration and UHID
  • OPD, IPD and emergency
  • Bed and ward management
  • Billing, receipts, advances, refunds
  • Corporate billing and invoicing
  • Doctor commission and payout
  • 31 reports, day book and cash book
  • WhatsApp and email to patients
  • ABHA capture and linking for ABDM
  • Role-based access and full audit trail

Not in this product

  • Pharmacy and inventory
  • Laboratory and radiology
  • Clinical records and e-prescription
  • Operation theatre and ICU charting
  • HR, payroll and accounting ledger
  • Insurance and TPA claim submission
  • Patient and doctor mobile apps

These exist as separate Caresoft products. If you need them in one system today, we will tell you that honestly and point you at the full HIS instead.

Before you ask us

Questions hospitals ask first

What is CareLite?

CareLite is a cloud-based hospital management software designed primarily for hospitals and nursing homes up to 30 beds, covering patient registration, OPD, IPD, emergency, billing, corporate billing, collections, doctor payouts and management reports.

Which hospitals is CareLite built for?

Nursing homes, day-care hospitals and small multi-speciality hospitals up to 30 beds that need billing and financial control without running a large HIS implementation project.

Does CareLite include pharmacy, laboratory or EMR?

No. Phase 1 covers administration and finance — registration, OPD, IPD, emergency, billing, corporate billing, receipts, doctor payout, reports and audit. Pharmacy, laboratory, radiology and clinical EMR are separate modules.

How long does onboarding take?

Masters, tariffs, companies and doctors are loaded through standard Excel templates, so a hospital can move from account creation to live transactions without a prolonged implementation exercise.

Is CareLite ABDM compliant?

CareLite is built for ABDM integration — ABHA capture, ABHA linking with UHID, consent workflows and full transaction logging. ABDM certification and production approval are separate NHA processes and are not claimed until completed.

Can two hospitals see each other's data?

No. Every record carries a hospital identifier that is enforced at the application and data layer, users operate only inside their own hospital, and platform access is restricted and logged.

All questions

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