Evidence-led guides for choosing, evaluating, and leaving veterinary software. Written by the team building OpenVPM, with our interests stated plainly and sources linked where claims can change.
Follow one fictional client request from intake to a resolved reply. Test contact preferences, review, delivery failures, ownership, and duplicate sends before choosing a shared inbox.
ReadTest what happens after a client reviews a plan: the exact version they saw, approved quantities, retained declines, staff ownership, performed work, and the final invoice.
ReadRun a two-animal house call through your next PIMS demo: separate records, one travel fee, unfinished notes, payment choices, and an interrupted connection.
ReadCompare 11 veterinary PIMS platforms, then use a downloadable demo scorecard to check records, handoffs, invoices, payments, migration, and practice fit.
ReadezyVet is a genuinely capable IDEXX-owned system. Here are the real alternatives, compared by workflow fit, API access, ownership, and current published pricing.
ReadCornerstone has run large hospitals for decades. When the server refresh, the training burden, or the bill finally forces the question, here are the real options, honestly compared.
ReadAVImark practices kept it for decades for a reason: a license you own, data in the building. Here is where that instinct leads in 2026, compared honestly.
ReadOne is a mature multi-site platform from Nordhealth. The other is a newer AI-first entrant. An evidence-led comparison from a vendor that competes with both.
ReadHippo Manager was acquired by Shepherd in March 2025. Here's an honest comparison of where displaced practices are landing and what to look for in a new system.
ReadA plain-language guide to veterinary data stewardship, software contracts, export fees, portability, and what open source changes.
ReadA plain-language guide for practice owners: what open-source veterinary PIMS actually means, how managed hosting changes the cost equation, and who it's for.
ReadEvery other part of the clinic is built on standards. The software that runs it shouldn't be a locked box you rent forever.
ReadOpenVPM supports reviewed, dry-run CSV imports for selected record types. General live synchronization with an incumbent PIMS is not available today.
ReadThe exciting thing about AI in veterinary medicine isn't a chatbot on the website. It's an agent that can actually do the busywork, if the PIMS lets it.
ReadNo spam, just practical notes on open veterinary software as we publish them. Reply with your thoughts; we read every one.