
<p><strong>A thirty-bed hospital has the same billing problems as a three-hundred-bed one — company tariffs, interim bills, discounts needing approval, doctor commissions, money leaving unrecorded — but not the team to run a two-year software project. CareLite covers the administrative and financial half properly and says plainly what it leaves out.</strong></p>

<h2>Scoped rather than stripped</h2>
<p>Most software for small hospitals is a large system with features switched off, which means paying for complexity you cannot use and navigating screens built for somebody else. CareLite covers administration and finance completely and does not pretend to do pharmacy, laboratory or clinical records. A complete half is more useful than an incomplete whole.</p>

<h2>Live in days</h2>
<p>Masters — doctors, wards, beds, services, companies, tariffs — load from Excel templates with a preview that shows exactly what will be added, updated or skipped before anything is written. A hospital moves from account creation to live billing without a prolonged implementation exercise.</p>

<h2>Built for a queue</h2>
<p>The billing screen is dense and tabular because a counter clerk with eight people waiting needs the numbers legible and the next action on the same screen. There is no walk-through wizard between adding a service and taking the money.</p>

<h2>Financial control by default</h2>
<p>Discount ceilings per user with approval above them. Cancellation with a mandatory reason and no deletion. Refunds as separate documents. Numbers issued under a lock so two counters can never produce the same bill number. Bill totals recalculated from the actual charges rather than accumulated. These are the controls that decide whether the month-end figure can be trusted.</p>

<h2>Honest about the boundaries</h2>
<p>The list of what Phase 1 excludes is published on this site rather than discovered during implementation. That is deliberate. Most failed hospital software projects fail because scope was implied rather than stated.</p>
