What exactly is included in a clinic CRM setup?+
Everything between 'enquiry happens' and 'revenue is attributed'. The engagement starts with a pipeline audit — we trace how enquiries actually flow through your clinic today and find the leaks. Then we design and build: a healthcare-tuned pipeline (enquiry → consult scheduled → consult done → treatment plan given → booked → treated), automatic lead capture from your website forms, WhatsApp, Google and Meta ad forms, GBP messages and Instagram, plus a call-logging workflow so phone enquiries are captured too. On top of that sit automated follow-up task rules with owners and due times, treatment-plan follow-up sequences, a tagging and segmentation model, duplicate handling, historical lead import, and source-to-revenue attribution. The engagement includes role-based training for front desk, doctors and admins, one-screen daily work views, and weekly adoption audits in the first month. The ongoing care plan keeps automations tuned, data clean and delivers a monthly report on conversion by stage and revenue by channel.
How long does CRM setup take before the team is using it daily?+
Four to six weeks to full adoption, and we're deliberate about the sequence. Week one is the audit and design phase — mapping your current enquiry flow, defining pipeline stages, task rules, tags and the attribution model on paper, with your sign-off before configuration begins. Weeks two and three are the build: channel integrations, automations, dashboards and historical lead import with deduplication. Then comes the part most CRM projects skip and consequently die: launch and adoption. We run role-based training, then two weeks of parallel running where the old notebook and the CRM operate side by side with daily checks, before the notebook officially retires. Through month one we audit usage weekly — if a receptionist is bypassing the system, we find out why and fix the workflow rather than blaming the person. Hospital and multi-department rollouts run eight to twelve weeks. The honest constraint is rarely software; it's calendar time for training sessions, so clinics that commit their team's time hit full adoption fastest.
How does pricing and billing work?+
One-time setup plus a monthly care plan. Standard setup is ₹25,000 — that covers the audit, pipeline design, CRM build, channel integrations, historical import and team training. The Advanced tier at ₹45,000 adds practice-management and calendar integrations, treatment-plan follow-up sequences, multi-doctor pipelines and call-tracking — the right choice for clinics quoting high-value treatment plans. Hospital and multi-department rollouts are custom-quoted. The ongoing care plan is ₹8,000/month and covers automation tuning, data hygiene, user support, new-staff training and the monthly pipeline and ROI report; it exists because CRMs decay without an owner — fields drift, automations break silently, and six months later the team is back on WhatsApp. CRM platform licence fees (typically ₹800–₹2,500 per user per month depending on the platform) are billed directly by the vendor to you, so you own your data and your account outright — we never hold your patient database hostage on our own licence.
Which CRM platform do you use, and do we own our data?+
We are deliberately platform-flexible, because the right answer depends on your size, budget and integration needs — and because you should own your data outright. For most single-location clinics we deploy on established platforms with strong India presence, WhatsApp Business API integration and per-user pricing that doesn't punish small teams; for hospitals we work with enterprise platforms or the CRM module of your existing HIS if it's genuinely usable. In every case, the licence is purchased in your clinic's name, the account belongs to you, and every configuration we build — pipelines, automations, dashboards — lives in your account. If you ever leave us, you keep everything, including a documented export of your data and a configuration handover document. What you're paying us for is not software resale; it's the healthcare-specific design (pipeline stages that mirror patient decisions, DPDP-aware data handling, treatment-plan sequences), the integration work, and the adoption engineering that makes the front desk actually use it.
How is CRM setup different from your WhatsApp or booking automation services?+
Think of them as layers of one acquisition system. WhatsApp automation is the conversation layer — instant replies, booking chats, reminders, review requests on one channel. Booking automation is the scheduling layer — slot logic, calendar sync, no-show defence across all channels. The CRM is the memory and management layer that sits under both: it records every enquiry from every channel, enforces follow-up with tasks and owners, tracks each patient through pipeline stages over weeks or months, and attributes booked revenue back to marketing sources. Automation tools act in the moment; the CRM manages the relationship over time. A concrete example: WhatsApp automation answers an implant enquiry at 11 PM and books a consult. The CRM then tracks that the consult happened, that a ₹1.8L plan was quoted, fires follow-up tasks at 48 hours, 7 days and 21 days, and — when the patient books — credits the revenue to the Google Ads campaign that started it. Clinics running all three get a combined retainer and one unified monthly report.
We have international patients and locations outside India — does this work, and what about SMS?+
Yes. The pipeline architecture is identical everywhere; what changes is the communication channel wired into it and the data-protection regime. For India, the UAE, the UK and Southeast Asia, the CRM's outbound touches — follow-up nudges, consult reminders, plan follow-ups — run through WhatsApp Business API, which is where patients in Dubai, Singapore, Manila and London actually read messages. For US practices, the same task sequences trigger SMS/text via A2P 10DLC-registered numbers instead, with TCPA-compliant consent capture built into the lead forms. We run this stack today for an IVF network in London and clinics in Dubai alongside our Indian partner base. For Indian clinics serving medical-tourism patients, we add country tags, timezone-aware task scheduling and currency fields on treatment plans, so a patient enquiring from Nairobi about a Delhi hospital is followed up at hours that make sense for Nairobi. International clients are quoted in USD, AED, GBP or local currency rather than the rupee prices shown here.
How do you handle patient data and DPDP compliance in the CRM?+
A clinic CRM holds names, phone numbers, health interests and treatment histories — squarely personal data under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, and we architect for that from day one. Every lead record carries a consent log: where the enquiry came from, what the patient consented to, and when. Marketing consent is captured separately from service communication, never bundled. Data is hosted on India-region infrastructure for Indian clinics; access is role-based, so a front-desk login sees today's tasks, not the full exportable database; and staff exits trigger an access-revocation checklist. We implement deletion workflows so a patient's erasure request is honoured across CRM, automation tools and connected channels — not just one system. Free-text medical notes are minimised by design in favour of structured treatment-interest tags, reducing what's exposed if anything ever goes wrong. For UK and Singapore deployments the same architecture maps onto UK GDPR and PDPA respectively, with data-processing terms documented as part of setup.
Will our front desk actually use it? Our last CRM died in a month.+
Most clinic CRMs die exactly this way, and the autopsy is almost always the same: a generic sales tool configured by an IT vendor, ten mandatory fields per lead, no training beyond a login email, and no one accountable for adoption. We engineer against every one of those failures. The front-desk view is one screen — today's follow-up tasks, in order, with one-tap call and WhatsApp buttons — not a sales dashboard. Data entry is minimised: channel integrations capture most leads automatically, and a phone enquiry takes under 30 seconds to log with three fields and smart defaults. Training is role-based and hands-on, run twice, with a laminated quick-reference at the desk. Then the part nobody else does: weekly adoption audits for the first month, where we look at actual usage data, find who's bypassing the system, and fix the workflow that's causing it. Our adoption rate across partner clinics is above 90% at 90 days — because adoption is treated as an engineering problem, not a hope.
Does this work for my specialty — dental, IVF, dermatology, hospitals?+
The pipeline skeleton is shared; the stages, sequences and tags are specialty-tuned, and that tuning is where conversions come from. Dental and implant centres get a plan-given stage with 3-touch follow-up sequences — 68% of unbooked treatment plans in our audits were simply never chased — plus value-band tags separating a cleaning enquiry from a full-mouth rehabilitation. IVF and fertility clinics get long nurture lanes, because patients research for three to nine months; gentle scheduled touches, cycle-timing tags and strict privacy defaults matter more than speed-to-close. Dermatology and cosmetic practices get package tracking (session 4 of 8), interest tags by procedure, and before/after consent flags. Orthopaedics and surgical specialties get insurance/cash tags and pre-op workflow stages. Hospitals get department-wise pipelines with a central attribution roll-up, so the CMO sees cost per booked patient by department while each HOD sees their own funnel. During the audit week we design your stages around how your patients actually decide — never from a template.
Do international clients pay in rupees, and how is billing handled abroad?+
International clients are quoted and billed in their local currency — AED for the UAE, USD for the US and Singapore, GBP for the UK, and USD for most of Southeast Asia. As a reference point, the standard setup translates to roughly USD 300, Advanced to about USD 540, and the monthly care plan to around USD 95, with the same deliverables, the same adoption engineering, and reporting calls scheduled in your timezone. Payment is by international card, wire or Wise, with invoices carrying the tax documentation your jurisdiction needs. CRM platform licences are purchased in your name in your region, so vendor billing and data-residency options follow your local requirements — UK clients can choose UK/EU data residency for GDPR, Singapore clients can align with PDPA guidance, and UAE clients get Arabic-capable channel templates where needed. We currently manage CRM deployments for healthcare providers in London and Dubai alongside 60+ Indian clinics, and multi-country groups get a single consolidated monthly report with per-location pipelines underneath it.