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Free Clinic Billing Tracker (Excel) — bills, payments & balances

A small clinic bleeds money quietly: a bill written on a card, a part-payment noted in a receipt book, and soon nobody can say who still owes what. This free tracker keeps the money in one place. Log each bill with its payer and the amount paid, record later payments as they come, and the balance for every patient and for the whole clinic works itself out. It is an honest record-keeping aid, not a hospital billing system or a claims platform.

Download — Excel (.xlsx) ↓Opens in Excel or Google Sheets · no sign-up
Prefer Google Sheets? You don't need Microsoft Excel →
  1. Download the file above.
  2. Open Google Drive, then New → File upload and choose the file.
  3. Right-click it in Drive → Open with → Google Sheets. It becomes a fully editable Google Sheet — every formula and tab intact — and works on your phone too.

The .xlsx format opens free in Google Sheets, LibreOffice, or Excel for the web — no paid software required.

What's inside

  • One row per bill: date, patient, service, amount billed, payer and amount paid
  • Payer dropdown: Cash, M-Pesa, Insurance or NHIF
  • Separate payments log for later part-payments against a balance
  • Per-patient and overall outstanding balance, flagged in red
  • Summary: total billed, collected, outstanding and collection rate
  • Formulas locked; only the yellow cells accept typing

The tabs

  • Start Here (guide)
  • Patients
  • Bills
  • Payments
  • Summary

Yellow cells only. You type in the yellow cells; the rest are locked formulas. Gridlines are off and it prints clean on A4.

Basic vs Premium

The free version does the job. The premium does more of it.

The free basic workbook above is a complete, formula-driven template you can use forever. The premium upgrade adds the extras that turn record-keeping into a management tool.

Basic — Free

  • The core sheets and formulas, in KES
  • Works in Excel or Google Sheets, on your phone
  • Yours to keep, no sign-up

Premium — KES 500

  • A revenue dashboard: billed vs collected, collections by payer and top outstanding patients, drawn as bars
  • A printable A4 patient statement you pick a patient for, with their bills, totals and balance due
  • A deeper analysis: billing and collection broken down by payer (Cash, M-Pesa, Insurance, NHIF) and by month
  • Swahili labels alongside English (Mgonjwa, Mlipaji, Salio, Mapato)
Get Premium — KES 500 · Excel (.xlsx) ↓Pay once via M-Pesa (Kenya) · yours to keep · opens in Excel or Google Sheets

Add each patient once on the Patients tab and their total billed, total paid and outstanding balance roll up on their own, with any balance flagged red. On the Bills tab, log each bill: date, patient (from a dropdown), service or item, amount billed, payer (Cash, M-Pesa, Insurance or NHIF) and the amount paid now; the balance on that bill is worked out for you. On the Payments tab, record any later payment against a balance, so a patient's account nets to the true amount still due.

The Summary tab totals the whole clinic: patients on file, bills logged, total billed, total collected, total outstanding and your collection rate. Yellow cells are the only ones you type into; every other cell is a locked formula, so the maths cannot break. Patient information is confidential, so keep the file on a device only your staff can reach, and if you use Google Sheets, share it with named people rather than a public link. It opens in Excel, WPS or Google Sheets, so you can keep it on the front desk or on a phone.

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Frequently asked questions

Does it show me who still owes money?

Yes. Each patient's total billed minus everything they have paid (at the bill and in the payments log) is their balance, shown in red when it is positive. The Summary tab totals the outstanding amount across the whole clinic, and the premium dashboard ranks your top outstanding patients.

Is this a hospital billing system?

No, and it does not pretend to be. It is a record-keeping and accounting aid to help a private clinic keep its billing tidy and know what it is owed. It does not submit claims, print official receipts or replace a hospital information system, so keep your own careful records too.

Can I track NHIF and insurance separately from cash and M-Pesa?

Yes. Every bill and payment carries a payer, so you can see how much of your revenue comes from Cash, M-Pesa, Insurance or NHIF. The premium analysis breaks billing and collection down by payer and by month.