Protect revenue integrity
Create invoices from approved orders, customer terms and completed LIMS scope rather than disconnected manual inputs.
Zylon Finance · Connected Zylon application
FINANCIAL OPERATIONS / CONNECTED APPLICATIONConnect completed laboratory work to billing and financial performance.
Zylon Finance is the connected financial application that converts approved sales orders and completed LIMS services into controlled invoices, tracks billing and collections, and provides revenue, receivables and profitability analytics without losing customer, project, test or laboratory context.
ConnectedQuotation to invoice
CurrentReceivables ageing
VisibleRevenue by laboratory
ControlledFinance approvals
APPLICATION OBJECTIVE
Create a traceable contract-to-cash process that connects commercial scope and completed laboratory work to accurate billing and performance.
Improve cash visibility
Track issued invoices, acknowledgements, ageing, collections, allocations and ownership across the enterprise.
Understand service economics
Analyse revenue, margin and unbilled work by laboratory, customer, project, service and test portfolio.
Customer challenges & solutions
From operational friction to controlled enterprise performance.
Each capability addresses a specific laboratory or business problem with a connected, traceable and measurable response.
CHALLENGE 01
Completed laboratory services are reconciled manually before an invoice can be raised.
ZYLON SOLUTION
Invoice-ready scope is derived from sales orders, customer terms, milestones and completed LIMS work with controlled review.
CHALLENGE 02
Commercial teams cannot easily identify unbilled work or invoice status.
ZYLON SOLUTION
Order-to-invoice tracking exposes unbilled completion, draft, approval, issue, acknowledgement and overdue stages.
CHALLENGE 03
Receivable follow-up is reactive and ownership is unclear.
ZYLON SOLUTION
Ageing dashboards, collection responsibility, promises and alerts provide a structured view of customer exposure.
CHALLENGE 04
Management reporting cannot connect financial results to laboratory activity.
ZYLON SOLUTION
Revenue and margin analytics retain laboratory, project, service and test context for meaningful performance decisions.
Customer scenarios
See how Zylon Finance responds to real operating situations.
Practical scenarios connect the initial business trigger to the controlled application response and the result visible to customers and management.
01
BUSINESS TRIGGER
A monthly customer invoice must consolidate hundreds of completed tests across projects.
ZYLON RESPONSE
Finance identifies invoice-ready LIMS work, applies contract rates and tax rules, groups eligible lines and routes the draft for controlled approval.
CUSTOMER OUTCOMEThe customer receives an accurate consolidated invoice with traceable service detail.
02
BUSINESS TRIGGER
A strategic account has overdue invoices but continues submitting samples.
ZYLON RESPONSE
Receivables ageing, collection ownership, promises and customer exposure are visible alongside active orders and laboratory delivery.
CUSTOMER OUTCOMECommercial and finance teams make an informed service decision and coordinate one customer response.
03
BUSINESS TRIGGER
Leadership needs to understand why one laboratory is growing revenue but losing margin.
ZYLON RESPONSE
Revenue, discounts, service mix and operational context are analysed by laboratory, customer, project and test portfolio.
CUSTOMER OUTCOMEManagement can address pricing, mix and delivery drivers using connected evidence.
Enterprise outcomes
Accelerate billing, strengthen collections and expose laboratory profitability.
Accurate billing
Generate invoice context from approved services, customer terms and completed laboratory work.
Faster collections
Monitor outstanding receivables, ageing, promises and customer follow-up responsibility.
Clearer profitability
Analyse revenue and cost by laboratory, customer, service, project and commercial owner.
Controlled spending
Route expenses, purchase requests and purchase orders through approval and budget context.
Functional coverage
Financial workflow built around the laboratory service lifecycle.
01
Invoice creation & governance
- Invoice creation from sales order and completed LIMS scope
- Service, test, milestone and consolidated billing
- Tax, currency and customer terms configuration
- Invoice review, approval and controlled issue
- Credit note, debit note and revision control
02
Receipts & collections
- Receipt entry and allocation
- Outstanding receivables
- Ageing analysis
- Collection follow-up
- Customer statement readiness
03
Purchasing & expenses
- Vendor master
- Purchase request
- Purchase order
- Expense entry and approval
- Purchase commitment visibility
04
Order-to-invoice tracking
- Sales order financial status
- Unbilled completed work
- Draft, approved, issued and overdue invoice stages
- Invoice delivery and acknowledgement tracking
- Order, invoice and receipt reconciliation
05
Finance access, reports & analytics
- Role-based access and segregation of duties
- Revenue and receivables dashboards
- Graphical ageing and collection trends
- Margin analysis by laboratory, customer and service
- Configurable finance and management reports
Controlled workflow
From approved scope and completed work to invoice, receipt and insight.
Financial processing preserves the line from quotation and sales order to delivered LIMS scope, invoice approval, collection and management analysis.
Reference
Use approved quotation, customer terms and delivered laboratory scope.
Invoice
Prepare, review and approve the customer invoice.
Collect
Record receipts, allocations, outstanding balances and follow-ups.
Control
Manage approved purchases, expenses and financial commitments.
Analyse
Review revenue, ageing, margin and operational financial performance.
CONNECTED INFORMATION FLOWOne record becomes progressively more valuable.
Contracted scope
Approved quotation, sales order, customer terms, rates and milestones define entitlement.
Delivered work
Completed and approved LIMS services establish what is eligible for billing.
Controlled invoice
Grouping, tax, review, approval, issue and acknowledgement create the receivable.
Cash application
Receipts, allocation, deductions, promises and follow-up explain settlement status.
Financial insight
Revenue, ageing, margin and unbilled analysis connect finance to laboratory operations.
Role-based experience
The right information and action for every responsibility.
Permissions and workspaces align each user with the records, decisions and performance signals required for their role.
01
Billing specialist
- SEES
- Approved orders, completed scope, billing milestones, rates, tax rules and invoice readiness.
- ACTS
- Prepares, validates and routes invoices for approval.
02
Accounts receivable
- SEES
- Issued invoices, acknowledgements, ageing, receipts, allocations and customer promises.
- ACTS
- Coordinates follow-up, records collections and resolves allocation exceptions.
03
Commercial manager
- SEES
- Order value, unbilled work, invoice status, credit exposure and account profitability.
- ACTS
- Resolves scope issues and coordinates customer action.
04
Finance leadership
- SEES
- Revenue, margin, ageing, cash conversion and laboratory-level financial performance.
- ACTS
- Manages exposure, forecasting and service economics.
Reports, analytics & dashboards
See unbilled work, invoice status, receivables and margin in one view.
Zylon Finance management overviewIllustrative enterprise dashboard
Monthly revenue₹1.26 Cr8.2% above plan
Outstanding receivables₹82 L₹19 L overdue
Collection efficiency93.6%Current quarter
Gross margin41.8%Across laboratory services
Invoices in workflow38Draft, approval and issue stages
Unbilled completed work₹14.6 LLinked to active sales orders
Enterprise readiness
Designed for complex operating models.
Zylon supports the governance expectations of multi-entity, multi-region and multi-site laboratory organisations while retaining controlled flexibility at the point of execution.
Global governance
Establish common master data, approval policy, access principles, audit expectations and management definitions across the enterprise.
Local configuration
Configure laboratory-specific methods, specifications, responsibilities and workflows within centrally governed boundaries.
Integration and scale
Connect instruments, identity providers and enterprise systems through a cloud-first architecture designed for progressive rollout.
Zylon LIMS ecosystem
A connected application built around the core LIMS record.
Finance extends Zylon LIMS downstream into billing and commercial performance. It preserves a traceable line from contracted scope and delivered testing to invoice, receipt and management insight.
- Zylon CRM
- Zylon LIMS
- Zylon QMS
- Customer Portal
- Banking and payment services
- ERP and tax systems