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A vet clinic's revenue calendar is already written in its patient records — vaccinations due, preventatives running out, seniors due back at six months — and the practice software ships a genuinely deep reminder system to run it, mostly unconfigured. The two rules underneath everything below: the machine handles the calendar, and clinical judgement never comes from a chat window.
Written for an owner who has never set up a single one of these things. Start at step one, which is free and takes an afternoon, and stop whenever you have had enough — nothing further down is needed for anything above it to work.
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The whole page, in order
Software: ezyVet Standard of Care and communication tasks
Cost note: Included if these modules are in your current ezyVet plan
Software: ezyVet appointment confirmations and reminders
Cost note: Included if messaging is in your current plan
Software: ezyVet patient list and communication tasks
Cost note: No additional software if the PMS can send the message
Software: ezyVet reminder and appointment reports
Cost note: No additional software
Step one · start here
If you already use ezyVet, Xero, these features are settings inside those products, not another subscription. Your current plan still needs to include the feature. If you use something else, skip that card and search your software’s help centre for the named feature before you buy anything.
Extra software cost
$0*
if included in your plan
Hours back per month
≈16
Why it matters
Care services defined by species, breed and age, with communication tasks that send vaccination and treatment reminders automatically — cadence, filters, exclusions and templates all configurable, all documented in the public knowledge center, and rarely set up past the defaults.
What to do
Open the official guide below. In ezyVet, find “Standard-of-care reminders via communication tasks”. Follow the guide once, switch it on for one real job or customer first, and check that it did exactly what you expected before using it everywhere.
Open the official setup guide ↗1 day · $0 extra if included in your current plan
Why it matters
Reminders that fire on conditions — species, age, sex, presenting problem — so the senior-cat six-monthly and the puppy series run on different clocks without anyone maintaining a spreadsheet.
What to do
Open the official guide below. In ezyVet, find “Condition-based reminder logic”. Follow the guide once, switch it on for one real job or customer first, and check that it did exactly what you expected before using it everywhere.
Open the official setup guide ↗Half a day · $0 extra if included in your current plan
Why it matters
For the balances that don't settle at the desk — payment plans, insurance gap accounts, the occasional slow client. Built in, off by default, with hardship accounts excluded because those need a phone call.
What to do
Open the official guide below. In Xero, find “Invoice reminders”. Follow the guide once, switch it on for one real job or customer first, and check that it did exactly what you expected before using it everywhere.
Check the official pricing and plan details ↗20 minutes · $0 extra if included in your current plan
If your software is not named above, the equivalent switch often still exists. Search its help centre for the exact feature name before you buy another tool.
Step two · first workflow to implement
Every due vaccine, health check and preventative refill is an appointment the reminder system can book — provided the cadences are configured and the templates carry a booking path. This is the practice's revenue engine and it runs on settings, not marketing.
Do this in order
Typical size
≈100+ due/mo
Setup
1 day
What to use
ezyVet Standard of Care reminders
Route: Already paid for
How you know it worked
Count it in week one, then count the same thing again in week four. If the number did not move, stop spending.
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Step three · keep going without adding complexity
Do not start all three at once. Finish one, test it on real work, then move to the next card.
A patient past fourteen months since the last visit has dropped off the reminder chain and will next appear as an emergency, or at another clinic. A quarterly warm message to that list — about the pet by name, not the invoice — is the cheapest new revenue in practice.
1 week · We do it · $1,600
A no-show on a dental or desexing slot is the day's margin gone. Confirmation at booking, reminder with fasting instructions the day before, and a deposit policy on the longest procedures — the same perishable-inventory logic as any operating theatre.
Half a day · In Speed to Lead
A six-month flea-and-worm supply runs out on a knowable date. A reminder a fortnight before — with a pickup or posted option — keeps the refill revenue in your practice instead of the pet store's aisle.
Half a day · In Speed to Lead
Step four · only once the first three are running
This is the first point where a real build may be worth paying for. The earlier steps need to be working before you add it.
After-hours calls split into genuine emergencies (straight to the emergency hospital's number, immediately) and everything else (booked for the morning). A phone flow that does that routing reliably protects animals and mornings alike — and never, ever gives clinical advice itself.
Half a day · We do it · $690
What this page is automating
Almost everything above is a computer sending a message at a moment when nobody was going to send one. That is it. No robot and no replacement for professional judgement.
If you already use one of the products named in step one, those cards are settings inside that product. If you do not, skip the card. This page is not claiming that you already own it.
It is
A message going out because a call, date or status changed.
It is not
Something that decides what to charge or replaces professional judgement.
It is
A reminder sent from records your business already keeps.
It is not
A replacement for you, your trade, or the people who know the work.
Does this look familiar?
Let the vaccination calendar sell itself
Recover the pet that missed a year
Protect the surgical slots
Refill the preventatives before they run out
Route the 8pm chocolate call properly
Confirmations that cut the no-shows
After thirty days
Number one
Write down the current monthly number before you switch anything on. Compare it with the same number after thirty days.
Number two
Count it the same way in week one and week four. Do not change the definition halfway through.
Number three
Use the history inside your existing software to count how often the automation actually ran.
Number four
Ask the person doing the work now. They will know before a dashboard does.
Every figure on this page is a typical size, not a measurement of yours. These four are the numbers that are actually about your business.
Reference · come back to this
Nothing here is urgent and nothing here is a starting point. It is the complete set for this business, in rough order of what it returns, with the tool, effort, and done-for-you route on every row.
Wins work
Saves hours
The stack · prices checked
Practice management
Cloud PMS with the deepest documented reminder system in the category — standard of care, communication tasks, templates.
Verdict: If you're on it, the reminder configuration above is the whole game — a day of settings before any new spend. If you're not, a PMS migration is a year of disruption; don't switch for a feature your incumbent likely half-has.
Practice management
Covetrus, Provet Cloud, VetLinkSQL and the rest — all carry reminder modules of varying depth.
Verdict: The honest instruction: open your own PMS's reminder settings before reading further down this table. The pattern across this whole library is that the incumbent does more than anyone configured.
Phone & messaging
A clinic number with shared inbox and missed-call text-back.
Verdict: Solves the lunch-hour problem. Booking logistics only in texts — no dosing, no triage, no clinical anything.
AI answering
Overflow answering with strict routing: emergencies to the emergency hospital, everything else to the diary.
Verdict: Deployable only with a hard script: it identifies emergency keywords and hands over the emergency number instantly, and it never advises on symptoms, toxins or doses. If that can't be locked down, a good voicemail with the emergency number beats it.
Accounting
The practice's books and the payment reminders nobody enables.
Verdict: You almost certainly have this already. Reminders free, off by default, twenty minutes in settings.
Automation
The lapsed-list sequences and refill nudges beyond the PMS's own cadences.
Verdict: Client names and appointment logistics only — nothing clinical leaves the PMS. And check the PMS's own communication tasks first; a scenario duplicating a built-in reminder is a scenario to delete.
Assistant
The team's operational questions from your own documents — prices, policies, stock, admission procedures.
Verdict: Loaded with your policies it earns its keep at the front desk. It never sees a patient record and never answers a clinical question — 'ask a vet' is the only correct output for those.
Documentation
Photo trails outside the PMS.
Verdict: Redundant — the PMS attaches images to the patient record, which is where clinical photos belong. Listed so you don't buy it.
Do not bother
A tool that tells a worried owner the chocolate dose is 'probably fine' has practised veterinary medicine badly under your name. Phone flows route and book; they never assess. The emergency number and 'bring them in' are the only safe automated answers.
Consult-note tools want access to clinical records, and the practice's money problem is the unconfigured reminder system, not note-taking speed. Configure the calendar first; assess scribes properly later if the vets still want one.
The pets already in your records — overdue, lapsed, preventatives run out — return at a message's cost and full price. Discounting to strangers before reactivating friends buys worse clients at worse margin.
Sources
Do it yourself
Use the official links, do one card at a time, and count the result after thirty days.
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