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You can see this provides several reasons why the referral is considered as closed, but is summarised as just a closed referral. When it comes to reporting on this, you can just find out how many referrals have the "Closed" status, but also delve into the granularity and find out why they are closed.
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You can see this provides several reasons why the referral is considered as closed, but is summarised as just a closed referral. When it comes to reporting on this, you can just find out how many referrals have the "Closed" status, but also delve into the granularity and find out why they are closed. Another useful thing about Referral Status is that you can use the same status across multiple projects. This means you can use the same "Open" status across all projects, then run a single report which will tell you how many "Open" referrals you have.

Revision as of 10:44, 28 February 2024

Introduction

Referral Status is used in conjunction with Referral Templates. It allows you to use multiple stages which can reflect the task, or progress of that referral, yet be collated into a single status. For example, a Casework project might have the following:

Referral Stage Referral Status
Referral Received Pending
First Contact Pending
Assessment Arranged Pending
Assessment Complete Open
Pending Allocation Open
Allocated Open
First Appointment Booked Open
First Appointment Attended Open

In the above example, you can see the referral wasn't counted as "Open" until the assessment has been completed. Then, all subsequent tasks were done at the open status. When it comes to closing the referral, it could also look something like this:

Referral Stage Referral Status
Closed - Complete Closed
Closed - No Answer Closed
Closed - Client Declined Closed
Closed - Client moved away Closed


You can see this provides several reasons why the referral is considered as closed, but is summarised as just a closed referral. When it comes to reporting on this, you can just find out how many referrals have the "Closed" status, but also delve into the granularity and find out why they are closed. Another useful thing about Referral Status is that you can use the same status across multiple projects. This means you can use the same "Open" status across all projects, then run a single report which will tell you how many "Open" referrals you have.