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Websites for vets and animal clinics: your appointments on your own site within the hour, and the enquiry on your desk first

You already keep your appointments up to date for the corporate chains' booking apps. The same feed can run a site you own, fast enough to score 100 on Google's own test, where a pet owner or a farmer finds the appointment, sends the enquiry to you, and never sees a competitor's stock beside yours.

What it is like now

  • Reception spends the morning on the phone booking what a form could book.
  • Vaccination and worming reminders are postcards.
  • The corporate chain down the road has an app.

What we build for vets

  • Appointment requests and repeat prescription ordering online
  • Reminders from the dates you already hold, by email or text
  • Clear price lists for the routine work, which is what people search
  • Farm and small-animal sides kept separate so each ranks for its own terms

What it looks like in practice

Reception spends the morning on the phone booking what a form could book, and the reminders are postcards. We build appointment requests and repeat-prescription ordering online, reminders from the dates the clinic already holds, clear price lists for the routine work, and the farm and small-animal sides kept separate so each ranks for its own terms.

What a website costs for vets and animal clinics

Most vets need the Presence tier, from €5,000, delivered in 3 weeks, paid 50% to start, 50% at launch. That includes your appointments fed from your own system, a page per appointment, the filters your buyers use, enquiry capture with alerts, sector pages, structured data, 100/100 on Google's speed test at launch, and your hosting, domain and code in your name.

After launch, most take the Managed care plan at €195 a month: hosting, backups, updates, monitoring, unlimited content edits and two hours of development a month, cancel any month. If the site you have now only needs its faults fixed rather than replacing, single fixes start at €350 and the free audit names them.

Typical ticket for a appointment in your trade is €50 to €3,000; one enquiry that comes to you instead of to the corporate chains' booking apps covers a lot of website. The full menu, with the five-year comparison, is on the pricing page.

Questions vets ask

We cannot let people book straight into the diary.
Then they request a slot and reception confirms, which is still one call fewer per booking. Direct booking is an option, not a requirement.
Repeat prescriptions.
Ordered online with the animal's details, approved by the vet, and a text when ready to collect.
We do farm and small animals.
Two sides of one site, each with its own pages, phone number and search terms, so the dairy farmer and the cat owner both find the right door.

Check your own site first

Free, on screen in seconds. The faults a pet owner or a farmer actually hits on your homepage, and what each one costs you.

Free, on screen in about ten seconds, no call. We fetch your homepage once, the way a visitor's browser does, and nothing else.

Before you compare quotes

Five questions to ask anyone quoting you, and our answers

Where is the work actually done?
Here, by the person you are talking to. Nothing is passed to a white-label shop in another time zone without telling you, because nothing is passed anywhere.
Who can see my enquiry data, and under what agreement?
You, and us while we build or maintain it, under a written data-processing agreement. Your customers' details never leave infrastructure in your name.
What happens on day 31?
The same as day 1. Fixed-price builds carry a 90-day warranty on defects; care plans run month to month; nothing expires when the invoice clears.
Who owns the code, the hosting and the domain?
You do, from the first commit. Your repository, your hosting account, your registrar. Written into the quote.
What does Google's own speed test say about it?
100/100 at launch on every build we ship, or you do not pay the final instalment. Run it yourself, on any page of the proof site, right now.

Fifteen minutes about your clinic

Tell us how your appointments reach the corporate chains' booking apps today and we will tell you how they reach your own site tomorrow, with a fixed price.