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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Clinic HQ

    Score1 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $199

    per month

    SimplePractice

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASimplePractice is a practice management platform, made specifically for small business owners in the health and wellness space. SimplePractice’s feature set includes secure messaging, customizable paperless intake forms, a template library, free appointment reminders (SMS, email, & voice), electronic claim filing, billing and invoicing, a beautiful client portal with online appointment booking, and more.

    $39

    per month

    Pricing
    Clinic HQSimplePractice
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $199
    per month
    Essential Plan
    $39.00
    per month
    Professional Plan
    $59.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Clinic HQSimplePractice
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Essential ($39.00 / month); Professional ($49.00 / month); Professional for Groups ($49.00 / month + $29.00 / mo for each additional clinician).
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    User Ratings
    Clinic HQSimplePractice
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Clinic HQSimplePractice
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Clinic HQ
    In our experience, the integrated credit card processor breaks far too often which halts our ability as a business to schedule appointments (because they require a deposit) and accept client payments for services. Other functionality “breaks” or outages happen far too often for us to consider ClinicHQ reliable software.
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    SimplePractice, LLC.
    I think it's a good choice for solo providers who bill insurance. If you have employees or are self-pay, go elsewhere, in my opinion
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Clinic HQ
    No answers on this topic
    SimplePractice, LLC.
    • Intake paperwork formatting
    • Calendar interface and ease of use
    • Automated features such as appointment reminders
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Clinic HQ
    • In our experience, some basic functionality requires multiple steps to complete. Would like to see more efficiencies in the core functionality.
    • ClincHQ provides minimal support to clients. During our service period with ClinicHQ, there were only two employees available to all clients for support. There was no implementation management and support tickets lacked meaningful information and was usually not resolved to our satisfaction. We got most of our support/help with issues from other users in a Facebook group. Clinic HQ stated recently that they have nearly 500 clients. Hiring more employees to provide quality support to clients would be a plus.
    • Customer Service - Clinic HQ is privately owned. The owner is involved with support and is unprofessional, rude, and openly insulting to clients. In my experience, questions and feedback are taken as personal attacks and the owner attacks back. This has no place in business and is something we could not waste our time on since we have such a busy clinic. The messaging from the owner seems to be take it or leave it. I’ve never worked with a software company that operates this way. Listening to client feedback without taking offense and working with clients as partners would be a much better approach.
    • ClinicHQ has a dated user interface and could be upgraded to include more efficiencies in the core functionality. However, it is privately owned and it appears unlikely that they can do a major product overhaul/upgrade due to lack of funds.
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    SimplePractice, LLC.
    • Would like more usability on the app.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Clinic HQ
    No answers on this topic
    SimplePractice, LLC.
    I have not had to contact support which is nice. If I have a question, I am typically able to find the answer within the help section.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Clinic HQ
    We selected Clinic HQ as a brand new clinic because to us on paper they had everything we needed to run the business. In actuality, some of the software functionality did not work as advertised, and they lack quality support and support staff. They also seems to be loose with their software development methodology or lack it completely.
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    SimplePractice, LLC.
    Also Kalix, Practice Better, Practice Q (formerly Intake Q), Healthie, Jane, etc. I'm hoping to switch to Practice Q soon.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Clinic HQ
    • The monthly fee is $199 but, in our experience, the costs for the labor/time to resolve issues ourselves or work with support added about $200-$400 more in admin costs per month.
    • When there was a credit card processor outage, functionality in ClinicHQ was impacted so our clients could not schedule appointments because a deposit was required resulting in lost clients and lost revenue, appointment reminder emails and notifications could not be sent so we had a 10-20% no show rate on those days resulting in lost income, and clients could not pay online prior to check-out and instead had to wait in long lines for a staff member to manually key in their credit card data resulting in a very poor and frustrating client experience.
    • In our experience, the poor technical support and customer service was stressful and time consuming for our staff. Clinic HQ seems to value their time and costs over their clients’ time and costs. Because software is key to our high volume business and daily operations, we could not continue working with this software provider. Having only 3 U.S. employees to support U.S. clients, having outages of key functionality, and having no funding for major upgrades and new functionality were big drawbacks for us.
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    SimplePractice, LLC.
    • The electronic paperwork has established me as a professional in the modern age
    • It has allowed me to streamline parts of my group practice
    • It has helped me stay organized and keep up with things to be done
    Incentivized
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