About & method
The Clinic Stack reviews practice management software for small allied-health clinics — acupuncture, massage, chiropractic, physiotherapy, and the multi-disciplinary practices that mix them.
Who writes this
I spent six years running the operational side of a multi-practitioner clinic: the schedule, the books, the supplier accounts, and every software migration nobody wanted to do. I now work in product management, which is where the habit of reading a pricing page line by line came from.
That background is the reason this site exists. Most clinic software reviews are written by people who have never had to explain to a practitioner why the 4pm patient is not in the system. The questions that actually decide a purchase are operational, and they are rarely the ones in the marketing material.
I do not name the clinic, and I do not claim clinical qualifications. Nothing here is clinical advice.
How we compare
We assess every platform against the same eight tasks a real clinic runs, using each vendor’s published product and pricing information. We check prices against the vendor’s own pages and date every figure we publish. Where we have been able to run a live trial, we say so; where we have not, we compare on published information and the eight tasks below, and we mark anything we could not confirm.
Each platform is assessed against the same fictional practice — two practitioners, one dedicated room and one shared room, cash-pay with a small insurance tail, and a treatment-course model — on eight tasks:
- Book a new patient online, including intake forms
- Record a treatment with points, laterality and a herbal formula
- Sell a six-session package and draw it down
- Apply a no-show policy with a card on file
- Produce a superbill
- Submit an insurance claim
- Run a rebooking report
- Add a second practitioner and check the bill
We judge on task completion, not feature presence. A feature you cannot find in under a minute during a clinic day does not count as available.
What we will not claim
- We will not tell you a platform is “the best” without naming the situation it is best for.
- We will not review a vendor’s clinical accuracy, compliance posture or security beyond what we can verify ourselves — ask them for a BAA and a data residency statement in writing.
- We will not publish a price we have not seen on a vendor page or a quote, and we date every price we publish.
- We will not rank a platform higher because it pays a higher commission. Two of the six platforms in our main comparison have no affiliate programme at all.
How the site is funded
Affiliate commissions. When a reader starts a paid subscription through one of our links, the vendor pays us a referral fee. The price you pay is the same either way.
No vendor has ever paid for a placement, a score, or a review, and none has editorial approval. Our full affiliate disclosure sets out the terms.
Corrections
Prices and features in this category change constantly. If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will fix it and note the change. Corrections are the main reason this site stays useful.