The gap
What actually costs a consultant time and money
Bookings run through a phone that is busy when you are consulting
The patient who cannot get through calls the next name on their list. A booking page that reflects your real availability — per location, per session, with the buffers you actually need — captures those people at eleven at night without anyone answering a phone.
No-shows in a slot-limited practice are pure loss
A missed consultation cannot be resold later that day. Confirmation at booking, a reminder the evening before and one on the morning of, plus one-tap rescheduling, addresses the largest and cheapest-to-fix category of no-show: the patient who simply forgot.
The same history gets written down three times
Digital intake sent when the appointment is confirmed means the patient fills in history, medications and allergies before arriving, and it lands in a structured form rather than on a clipboard someone re-types.
You cannot say which referrers actually send patients
Most consultants run on referrals and track none of it. A simple referral log — who sent whom, when, what came of it — tells you where to spend your limited relationship-building time, and lets you close the loop back to the referring doctor.
What you get
What a doctor's build usually includes
Booking page
Your locations, sessions, consultation types and durations, with buffers, leave blocks and a cap on how far ahead patients can book.
WhatsApp confirmations and reminders
Confirmation immediately, reminder the day before and the morning of, and a reschedule link that does not require a phone call.
Pre-visit intake
History, medications, allergies and reason for visit collected before arrival, with consent recorded, delivered to you in a readable summary.
Referral log
Capture the referring doctor at booking, see the pattern over time, and send a structured outcome summary back without retyping it.
Patient list and recall
One record per patient across visits, with automatic recall for reviews and follow-up scans that would otherwise be forgotten.
Missed-call recovery
Any call you could not take triggers an automatic message with your booking link, so a busy afternoon does not become a lost week.
Prescription and report handover
Secure delivery of prescriptions and reports with an access log, instead of forwarding files through a personal chat.
A single simple view
Bookings, attendance, no-shows and referral sources for the month. One page, no dashboard training required.
How it works
How it gets built
- 1Days 1–2
One conversation about how you actually work
Where you consult, on which days, how long each consultation type takes, what your assistant currently does by hand, and what you refuse to be interrupted for.
- 2Day 3
Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed date
Written specification and a firm quote before anything is built. No open-ended hourly billing.
- 3Weeks 1–3
Build with a working preview
You see it running from the first week and react to something real. Adjustments happen while they are cheap.
- 4Launch
Go live and hand over
Your assistant is trained, documentation is written, and a support window follows. You own the code and the data.
What a solo consultant typically needs, and what it costs
| Tool | Problem it removes | Indicative one-time cost | Build time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Booking page | Phone unavailable during consulting hours | From ₹15,000 | 1–2 weeks |
| WhatsApp reminders | Forgotten appointments in a slot-limited day | From ₹9,000 | 1 week |
| Digital intake and consent | History written and re-typed repeatedly | From ₹9,000 | 1–2 weeks |
| Referral log and outcome loop | No visibility on who sends patients | From ₹12,000 | 1–2 weeks |
| The connected set | All of the above, sharing one patient record | From ₹35,000 | 3–4 weeks |
Why this is cheaper than you expect
A single practice has a small surface area
The reason healthcare software is expensive is that most of it is built to serve every practice in the country. Every configuration option, every role, every billing model and every regulatory variant has to exist and be tested. You pay for all of it and use a fraction.
A tool built for one consultant needs one set of slot rules, one referral pattern and one workflow. That is a small, well-understood build, and small builds are inexpensive. The saving is not a discount, it is an absence of complexity you were never going to use.
It should require nothing from you after launch
The test of a good tool for a doctor is whether you can ignore it. If it needs you to log in daily, mark things complete or maintain a calendar in two places, it will be abandoned within a quarter and you will be back to WhatsApp.
So the default is automation with a human override: reminders send themselves, intake arrives summarised, recall fires on schedule, and the only thing that reaches you is something that genuinely needs a decision.
Consent and confidentiality, handled properly
Collecting patient history through a form means you are processing personal and health data, which falls under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, whose Rules were notified in November 2025. That is not a reason to avoid digital intake — it is a reason to build it correctly the first time.
In practice: explicit consent captured and recorded at the point of collection, only the fields the consultation actually needs, access limited to you and anyone you designate, a defined retention period rather than indefinite storage, and an access log. Designed in, this costs almost nothing. Retrofitted, it is a project.
FAQ
Questions we get asked
Yes, and it is a common requirement. Each location gets its own sessions, durations and consultation fees, and the booking page shows the patient only the locations and slots that genuinely exist. Reminders include the correct address for that appointment. Your single view shows all three together, which is usually the first time a visiting consultant can see their whole week in one place.
Not unless you want it to. If you already run something that handles records or billing adequately, we build around it and integrate where an API exists. Most consultants who come to us are not unhappy with their records system — they are unhappy that booking, reminders and intake sit outside it and are done manually. That gap is what we fill.
You own the code, so you have real options. Small changes are usually quick and inexpensive, and we quote them individually rather than requiring a retainer. If you would rather have someone else maintain it, or bring it in-house, the codebase is documented and portable. Nothing is locked to us.
Both, and the split depends heavily on your patient demographic. What consistently changes is the shape of the demand: bookings appear at night and on Sundays, when nobody was ever answering the phone. Even practices where most patients still call typically find that the booking page captures a meaningful volume that was previously lost entirely, and it reduces the interruption load on whoever answers.
Yes, for transactional messages the patient has consented to receive — appointment confirmations, reminders and reschedules — sent through the official WhatsApp Business Platform with approved templates. What is not appropriate is using that same channel to push promotional offers or treatment advertising, which raises both platform policy and medical advertising issues. We build the consent capture and the template set to keep the distinction clean.
Because the price is fixed against a written scope before development starts. If you ask for something outside that scope later, we tell you what it costs and you decide before we build it. The reason we can commit to a fixed price is that we spend the first days understanding the workflow properly — most overruns come from wrong requirements, not slow engineering.
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Tell us what your assistant does by hand
Describe a normal week. We will come back with a written scope, a fixed price and a date — or an honest recommendation that you buy something off the shelf instead.