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Overview # OpenVPMS Review From A$450/year Free trial 1 plan On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview OpenVPMS 4.7 [(9)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/veterinary/openvpms-profile/#reviews) Pricing Starting at A$450.00 per year Top Alternatives ### About OpenVPMS OpenVPMS is an open-source veterinary practice management software system. It is designed for veterinary practices of all sizes to manage patient records, appointments, billing and more. The platform aims to provide an affordable, customizable solution to modernize clinic operations. With OpenVPMS, clinics can schedule appointments, create estimates, generate invoices, and track inventory. Key features include patient records, treatment plans, lab requests, billing, reporting, and business analytics. Users can also configure clinical workflows, input forms, templates and terminology to match their unique needs. Everything is accessible via a user-friendly web interface that authorized staff can log into from any device. OpenVPMS operates as a non-profit organization that relies on paid subscriptions and donations to fund ongoing development. Subscribers gain access to automatic upgrades, support services and advanced configuration options. Do you work for OpenVPMS? [Manage this product listing](https://www.g2.com/products/openvpms/claim_requests/new?auto=true) ## OpenVPMS User Interface ## Popular OpenVPMS Alternatives Main Product OpenVPMS 4.7 [(9)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/veterinary/openvpms-profile/#reviews) Ratings Breakdown - 4.0Ease of use - 4.89Value for money - 4.0Customer support - 4.33Functionality Pricing Starting at A$450.00 per year Alternative Product [DaySmart Vet](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/356421-DaySmart-Vet/) 4.6 [(292)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/356421-DaySmart-Vet/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.62Ease of use - 4.57Value for money - 4.66Customer support - 4.38Functionality Pricing Starting at $116.00 per month Alternative Product [Shepherd](https://www.softwareadvice.com/veterinary/shepherd-profile/) 4.7 [(89)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/veterinary/shepherd-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.85Ease of use - 4.74Value for money - 4.82Customer support - 4.58Functionality Pricing Starting at $299.00 per month Alternative Product [ezyVet](https://www.softwareadvice.com/veterinary/ezyvet-profile/) 4.6 [(279)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/veterinary/ezyvet-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.35Ease of use - 4.48Value for money - 4.52Customer support - 4.48Functionality Pricing Starting at $260.50 per month Alternative Product [Digitail](https://www.softwareadvice.com/veterinary/digitail-profile/) 4.7 [(107)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/veterinary/digitail-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.51Ease of use - 4.65Value for money - 4.69Customer support - 4.36Functionality Pricing Starting at $289.00 per month Alternative Product [IDEXX Neo](https://www.softwareadvice.com/medical/idexx-neo-profile/) 4.2 [(117)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/medical/idexx-neo-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.38Ease of use - 4.34Value for money - 4.54Customer support - 3.90Functionality Pricing Starting at $290.00 per month ## OpenVPMS Pricing and Plans Starting price: A$450.00 per year Free Trial Free Version Basic A$450.00 per year No plan information available ## OpenVPMS Features - Popular features found in Veterinary Billing & Invoicing Calendar Management Client Management Confirmations/Reminders EMR/EHR Imaging and X-rays Inventory Management Payment Processing Prescription Processing Treatment Planning - More features of OpenVPMS Alerts/Notifications API Appointment Scheduling Communication Management Customer Database Data Import/Export Document Management Electronic Payments Electronic Signature Email Reminders Invoice Management Patient Records Management Reminders Reporting & Statistics SMS Messaging SOAP notes Template Management Third-Party Integrations Workflow Management ## OpenVPMS User Reviews ## OpenVPMS customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.7/5 - Total reviews: 9 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 6 reviews (67%) - 4 stars: 3 reviews (33%) - 3 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4.9/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4.3/5 --- Have you used OpenVPMS and would like to share your experience with others? ### Fantastic opensource product - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Paul S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Opensource. Access to database, code. Runs on my Linux infrastructure (runs on Windows too). Great community to help solve problems. Highly customizable. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Value. We've used this for years and the product continues to improve. We've contributed to the project and so have many other veterinary clinics. This contribution leads to a sharing economy which we highly appreciate. #### Cons There are certain pieces of functionality that just aren't there. Join the community and help contribute to whatever thing is most critical for your your clinic (although it's probably already there). --- ### Adopted and started using for small Canadian start-up veterinary practice in 2014. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Samuel L. - Industry: Veterinary - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Virtually error-free practice management software. Couldn't run without it or something exactly like it. Perfect combination of standard features but with full-customization abilities for a dedicated user/administrator. Open-source nature has allowed for adaptation to the Canadian tax system and small tweaks that we prefer in our practice. Once running, the software has been maintenance free except for standard upgrades or customizations as desired. Have never had any software-caused downtime in 3+ years of running. Superb. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The ability to run in our fully Linux-powered practice and to customize to our needs were absolutely essential elements in our selection of practice management software. The owner/vets had nearly 40 years experience with standard commercially-available products and had been singularly unimpressed. As IT/Bookkeeper, I was tasked with finding something else. OpenVPMS has proven to be an excellent choice in that it has allowed us to develop a system that is not only easy for new staff to learn but has allowed development of a system that serves us perfectly. The vets are pleased, the staff are pleased and so I am too! Standard reporting and documents are comprehensive in their scope. Online help for any screen is available through Alt-F1. From an IT perspective, the open-source nature of the code and the use of free software such as MySQL for database handling, OpenOffice and JasperSoft Studio for document and report customization, makes for a very flexible package. As a server-based webapp, OpenVPMS was relatively easy to deploy on the practice's server (see CONS) and requires no special software on the workstations other than a standard web browser. Support for both use and implementation has been nothing short of absolutely outstanding. The community and core personnel have been incredibly helpful in answering any questions and providing guidance where necessary. This is truly an excellent project, well worth consideration. Highly recommended. #### Cons Getting OpenVPMS up and running is not a not a simple matter of installing a single package and firing it up. It requires at least a good working knowledge of server set up, deployment, basic networking, etc. Tricky in places, but not outside the realm for a committed enthusiast. While we don't find that new staff have any difficulty learning the application itself, any more than basic customization is beyond the capabilities of most users. That said, there has been considerable progress in the latest versions for simple customization of the wide variety of standard reports and documents provided. This can now all be done within OpenVPMS itself at the initial practice configuration stage (adding practice logos, contact info, etc.) without the need to fire up any outside software. This has greatly simplified the setup process for new adopters. But for anything beyond that, the learning curve is very steep. OpenVPMS uses an entity-relationship style MySQL database. While the power and flexibility of such a database really requires this to be a PRO and not a CON, I find the syntax for addressing the data base directly to be mind-numbingly cryptic. Prior experience with a relational database and/or a shelf full of MySQL textbooks is of limited help. Any attempts on my part to customize the standard reports' SQL queries have generally left me admitting defeat and asking for help from the community. Such help has always been provided, however. Thanks! --- ### A cost effective Practice Management system - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Tony V. - Industry: Veterinary - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It is well priced compared to alternate options. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Open VPMS is generally Cost effective and user friendly. It is also always continuing to add new features. #### Cons Each upgrade tends to create more keystrokes and more time to perform basic tasks. It can become costly if you require additional help or support to set things up. Lack of written training materials/"How to" manuals/lists of features and functions --- ### Long time OPENVPMS user - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Matthew R. - Industry: Veterinary - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Although, we did provide some seed funding initially for the development of this PMS, I resisted for ages actually changing over to OPENVPMS because I was concerned about the changeover; new program, different system, how would the staff manage? etc etc. Also, Vertical Connect had managed to make our old program run so much better and more stable. I did not see the point is changing too soon. However, once we made the change, I loved it! Wondered why I had resisted for so long. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Having been exposed to most of the programs out there, having been an accredited hospitals inspector for many years, I can honestly say that from a clinicians point of view OPENVPMS is the best. I like the presentation of the clinical record; the ease with which one can attach Lab results, photos, photomicrographs, etc in a chronological order. It is easy to follow the progression of a case. With the alerts and notes it is easy to see what previous major issues the patient has had. I like the open sourced nature of the program. There are no exorbitant program fees. Vertical Connect were fantastic at setting us up initially and the program is very stable. There are no license fees like other programs available out there. New staff have had no problems adapting to this PMS - within a few days #### Cons I am a veterinarian and do not even try to understand the IT in the background that makes this program work so well. It is not a program one can download and start using with out having a reasonable amount of knowledge about the various opensource programs that makes this work. There are some aspects that are annoying - like most programs. in particular sometimes the number of mouse clicks required, or not being able to load several images at once. One needs to repeat the process for each image. --- ### We moved 2 clinics to OpenVPMS approximately 3-5 years ago. It has improved our efficiency. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ben C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Increased Efficiency Customisability Better Reporting Speedier data entry #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The software is actively developed with major new features every few months. Yet the cost is low. Good hardware is a pre-requisite. That being said once installed it runs seamlessly - we don't have outages or downtime. #### Cons The upgrade process is not automated. The user interface is probably a little dated...but it is highly customizable. There are slated changes to fix both of these factors in the developer's milestone plans. --- ### Excellent Functionality - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Trilby W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It's very customisable - we've had a lot of reports made to our specific requirements and features that we've requested have been developed and built into new releases of the software. #### Cons It requires quite a lot of IT knowledge to do upgrades and develop new reports. The user interface isn't very attractive or intuitive and has a steep learning curve for new staff. --- ### We have been using OpenVPMS for about 10 years now and it does everything we want it to do - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Amanda H. - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros When we originally changed over, we had a crippling licencing bill from our previous software provider. We had previously not been using all the functions of our old software and found the customisable nature of OpenVPMS great in terms of doing what we wanted. #### Cons Customisable nature means that you do need to have time to think about what you want it to do but Vertical Connect have been great over the years in guiding us and also now they are very proactive with optimising our system whilst we have spent the last few years neglecting it (as it was doing what we needed and we weren't over complicating things, rather concentrating on other projects) --- ### Exceeds expectations of a community created software - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Matt C. - Industry: Veterinary - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered A very mature product at excellent price #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Must declare that as an original supporter and community user, we have a vested interest in OpenVPMS. However, what we like is that as OpenVPMS matures, we have the option to control it's direction. #### Cons We would love to see a thriving community of IT professionals with support solutions in Australia. Whilst our clinic has EXCELLENT OpenVPMS support, the same can not be said for all users. The user forums are essential in the absence of a population of expert IT professionals. --- ### Very easy to use. Was simple to implement as our practice w as a start up. Very satisfactory. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Peter L. - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The price. Other options on the market are significantly more expensive. The market competitors boast a massive range of bells and whistles but how many of these are actually used in the real world? We have been able to adapt Open VPMS to our practice and have added reports and functionalities with no problem. #### Cons It is perhaps less "intuitive" to use than other systems. However once learnt, it is no more difficult to use. --- Showing 1 - 9 of 9 Reviews ## OpenVPMS Popular Comparisons [DaySmart Vet vs OpenVPMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/compare/283743-openvpms/vs/356421-DaySmart-Vet/) ## See what companies are saying about Software Advice