My office only gives me a collections report, never production. Does this still work?
Yes. Step one tells you plainly that it cannot check production directly, and step two does the job indirectly: if collections come in well under what your production should have brought in, over a rolling three months, work went missing somewhere. It also tells you exactly which report to ask for to make the check direct.
I have been an associate for years and never kept anything. Is it too late?
No. Start logging today and, if you want the recent past, type the last few months of production, collections and pay from your stubs into one grid. The checks start working at three months. Nobody is ever ahead of you here, because nobody else has been keeping this either.
Do I need a card to start?
No. The demo needs nothing at all, and making an account starts your 30 free days with no card. You add one only when you decide to keep going, so you are never charged for time you spent deciding.
Isn’t this accusing my office of something?
No. It is keeping your own record of your own work, which is the most ordinary thing in the world for anyone paid on commission. When a month is green, and most are, you have peace of mind. When one is red, you have a specific, polite question with a number in it. Offices generally fix these things in an afternoon once someone shows them.
I am thinking about buying a practice. How does this help?
It tells you your own real capacity — production per day and per visit, sustained over a year, by procedure — so you can compare it honestly to the production a practice would need from you, and judge whether the seller’s numbers are believable against what one dentist can actually do in a day.
When do I actually log this?
At the office computer, in the gaps. Most associates open cuspd in a tab next to the practice software and add the visits during downtime through the day, straight from the day sheet; it takes a minute or two and the day is done before you leave. Your phone works too, for the day you forgot.
How long does logging really take?
A few minutes for a full day, less once your common codes are remembered. Tap the day, add a visit, type codes and fees, done. Most people do it at the end of the day or in the car. If you miss days, tap them later; if you miss a month, enter one total.
Where do the collection-rate estimates come from?
Published dental billing benchmarks: healthy practices collect 96–99% of adjusted production, industry average 91–94%; PPO write-offs run 30–40% of full fees; claims pay in 30–45 days. cuspd combines these into a starting rate and timing for your patient mix and labels it an estimate on screen. If the office tells you its real rate, type it in. Once you have production reports and collections together, it learns the real rate and stops estimating.
Do I have to enter patient names?
You cannot. There is no field for one. Visits are numbered. This is deliberate and permanent.
Can my office see any of this?
No. There is no practice-facing side, no shared view, no notifications. It is your account and your record. What you choose to show anyone is up to you.
What does the demo show?
A real associate’s January-to-August 2026, anonymised: 149 days, 1,218 visits, $562,346 of production, plus what the office collected, billed for lab and paid each month. Every screen, with real numbers, so you can see what a year of the record actually looks like before you type anything.
What if I stop paying?
You keep access to the end of the period you paid for. After that the account stays, the data stays, and you can export it any time. Come back whenever.
