Praxbook is live.
It is online booking, patient screening and appointment management for practitioners who work on their own: therapists, counsellors, physiotherapists, ear care specialists, and everyone else running a practice where the practitioner and the admin team are the same person.
It is free for 30 days, no card, and you can have a working booking page before your next coffee goes cold.
Why we built it
Ask a solo practitioner how bookings work and you get some version of the same story. You are in session. The phone rings. You call back at lunch and get their voicemail. Three messages later the appointment is confirmed, and you have spent fifteen minutes of a working day arranging one visit.
The tools that exist do not fit the shape of that problem.
Generic schedulers hand you a time-slot picker. They are good at times and nothing else. No screening before the booking, no patient record, no audit trail of who changed what. Clinic practice-management systems have all of that and are built for organisations: staff roles, rooms, resources, billing teams, approval workflows, and a setup process measured in days. If you are one person, you are paying for and learning around software designed for a building full of colleagues you do not have.
Praxbook is deliberately the thing in between.
What you can do with it today
Your own booking link. Every practitioner gets a page at their own address. Share it, put it on your website, or print the QR code we generate for it. Patients book without creating an account or installing anything.
Screening before the timeslot is taken, not after. Every service can carry its own consent form, and the patient answers it as part of booking. Questions can be free text, single or multiple choice, a consent checkbox with your own consent wording above it, or a signature. Catch what you need to catch before somebody travels to see you.
Your day, your shape. Multiple locations, each with its own weekly opening hours. Recurring weekly breaks and dated time off, both of which simply take those hours off the board. Set your appointment length once. And choose whether patients see every free time in a day or only the first few, so your bookings land back to back instead of scattered across the week.
Appointments you can run from your phone. Your schedule, each appointment’s detail and consent form answers, cancellations and reschedules. If somebody books over the phone, you enter it yourself, and hand them a device at the visit to complete their own consent form. The record shows they answered it, not you, because for consent and signature questions that distinction is the whole point.
Patients look after their own bookings. They get a confirmation immediately and a reminder before the appointment, and they can reschedule or cancel themselves. One patient account covers every practitioner they book with, while each practitioner sees only the appointments made with them.
Patient records and notes. Every patient who books is a record, with their history and their answers. Search tolerates typos, transposed letters and phonetic respellings, so “Kathryn” finds Catherine. A search box that only works when you spell it right is not a search box. Clinical notes are searchable as prose.
Your calendar, wherever you already keep it. Subscribe to your appointments from Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar. It is one-way by design: your bookings appear there and nothing in your calendar app can quietly change your availability here.
No passwords. You sign in with a one-time code sent to your email, and so do your patients. There is no password to invent, and no “forgot password” dead-end for a patient trying to move an appointment.
Built to be boring about your data. Practitioners are isolated from one another at the database level. Every booking change is written to an audit log, as is every support access to patient data. Your data is stored in the UK.
And the whole booking flow works without JavaScript, on an old phone, on a bad connection. That sounds like a technical detail until you notice how many of your patients are on exactly that.
What we left out on purpose
This list matters as much as the one above.
No organisation accounts. No staff or receptionist roles. No shared rooms or resource scheduling. No approval workflows. No directory or marketplace that lists your practice next to your competitors and charges a fee per booking. No app to install.
Every one of those is a decision, not a gap. A product that serves both a fourteen-person clinic and a practitioner working alone ends up serving the clinic, since that is where the money and the feature requests are, and the solo practitioner spends the rest of their subscription clicking past fields that will never apply to them. We would rather be obviously incomplete for a clinic than quietly bloated for you.
How that compares
| What it is | Where it falls short for a solo practice | |
|---|---|---|
| Generic schedulers (Calendly, Cal.com) | A time-slot picker | No consent form, no patient record, no audit trail |
| Clinic systems (Cliniko, Jane, WriteUpp) | Full practice management | Built for staff, rooms and billing teams; priced and shaped for a clinic |
| Marketplaces (Fresha) | Free, in exchange for the relationship | Per-booking fees, and your patients are listed as theirs |
| Praxbook | Booking, screening and records for one practitioner | No staff, rooms or billing, on purpose |
What comes next
The near-term list is short, and it is driven by what practitioners keep asking for. None of it is live yet, and we will email you when each piece lands.
Text message reminders. Email reminders work, but a text gets read. This is the most requested thing on the list, and it is the one we are building first.
Treatment note templates. Typing the same headings after every appointment is work a computer should be doing. Set up a template per service and start each note already structured, so writing it up is filling in rather than starting from a blank box.
Bringing your records with you. If you are on Cliniko, Jane, WriteUpp or something else, switching should not mean retyping your patient list. We are building imports for the common platforms, and if yours is not one of them, send us an export and we will take a look.
If something you need is missing, tell us. At this size we can still build the thing you asked for and email you when it ships.
Try it
Praxbook is free for 30 days with no card. Early access pricing is limited to the first 50 practitioners and locked for life, and after that it goes up only for new customers, never for you.
Set up your services and your consent form, book yourself in as a test patient to see what your patients see, and then put the link on your website.