Instead of VisionVPM
Moving off VisionVPM? Own the practice system you move to.
Enterprise DNA builds your practice its own version around the way you see pets, horses and stock, brings your VisionVPM clients and animals across, and keeps it running for you month to month.
Covetrus does not publish VisionVPM pricing. Practices book a demo and are quoted privately.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
What the invoice covers
A private quote for software wrapped around your own client list
Farmers, stud owners, syndicates, pet owners, their animals, the consults, the stock and the money. That is what a mixed practice keeps. VisionVPM is sold on a quote after a demo, so most owners never see the price laid out next to what they actually use.
A price you only see in a quote
No public price list. You compare options by sitting through demos, then weigh a private number against what your team really opens each day.
An install the vendor has to reach into
Help arrives through a remote session onto your machines, during business hours in Australia or New Zealand. A Saturday calving with a stuck screen waits for Monday.
Modules bundled whether you use them or not
Ledger, payroll, boarding, telemedicine, marketing, dashboards. Worth checking which of them your team actually opens.
A vendor steering toward its newer product
Covetrus now leads its Australian and New Zealand site with Ascend. If a move is coming anyway, it is worth asking where your records should end up.
Reports that stop at the report list
Which farm clients have not had a herd visit since spring, which finished jobs were never charged, which register lines do not match the shelf: questions that cut across records depend on what the reports and dashboards already cover.
Years of history in someone else's format
Herd numbers, equine records, vaccination histories and statements sit in the vendor's system. Getting them out in a usable shape is a project you only price when you leave.
What you get instead
One record for the clinic and the farm calls, held by the practice
The day
A day sheet the whole team can ask about
Every consult on one book, with the rules a practice runs on checked before anything is booked.
- check A vet whose practising certificate has lapsed does not go in the book
- check No vet double-booked across two rooms
- check Past bookings nobody closed off stay on the list until someone says what happened
- check Ask "who is in the book this afternoon" and get the answer
Consults and charges
Every job finished, written up and charged
Notes, consent and dispensing are checked when a consult closes, so the work and the invoice line up.
- check A consult cannot close without clinical notes on record
- check Surgery and dental work cannot close without consent on file
- check Restricted and controlled medicines are dispensed only inside a vet's consult, and an expired batch is refused
- check A list of every finished job with no invoice
The register
The controlled drug register, kept as you go
Every receipt, dose and witnessed disposal is written with a running balance that cannot be edited afterwards.
- check Check the register against a shelf count, drug by drug, whenever you like
- check A mismatch sits at the top of the list of things needing attention
- check Lapsed certificates, missing consent and expired stock are named with the rule they break
- check Register pages, vaccination certificates and statements printed in your practice's own branding
Yours
Your fields, your clients, your database
Plain records in a database your practice holds, shaped around the animals you actually see.
- check Ask for a field, a report or a rule in plain words and it is added
- check Recall lists come out as a call sheet with phone numbers, and lapsed patients are ranked by what they were worth
- check Herd and flock counts, stud details or syndicate owners added for your practice when Enterprise DNA builds your version
- check Open source and yours to keep, with no vendor licence to renew
Make it yours
Design your own VisionVPM replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from VisionVPM. Try it here, and we build the real one.
2. What it runs
3. Make it fit
4. Your colour
Answered from your own database
Good morning. Here is what needs you today.
We build it from the open-source base, bring your VisionVPM data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from VisionVPM
A move usually involves exporting the records you need, mapping VisionVPM’s fields, checking the import, and running both systems side by side before you switch.
- 1
Request your VisionVPM export
Ask Covetrus support for a full export early. Include your client and animal lists, and decide which history you want to bring across. VisionVPM’s export options are not specified here, so export what your account allows, usually CSV or Excel, and check with VisionVPM if you need help. Keep the original records available while you check the move.
- 2
Load a test import
Use the import for the client and animal lists from your VisionVPM export. The columns need to be matched to the fields in the new system. If the import offers a test run, do that before loading the records for real. Confirm that the chosen fields and history are being mapped as intended before proceeding.
- 3
Review flags and totals
Check what the import flags, then compare the imported totals with VisionVPM. Look for missing or unmatched records and fields that did not map as expected. Resolve the mapping issues you can, and decide how to handle any records that need attention. Do not treat a completed import as proof that every record came across correctly.
- 4
Run both systems briefly
Keep VisionVPM running alongside the new system for a short period. Use that time to check the records you need in daily work and compare them with the originals. Confirm that the imported information and totals are acceptable before relying on the new database as your practice record. Keep the old system available while you do these checks.
- 5
Switch off VisionVPM
Once you have checked the import and are satisfied with the records you chose to bring across, make the new database your working record. Confirm that your team knows where to find the information it needs. Only then switch off VisionVPM, following any account or data-access steps you have agreed with Covetrus.
Where the real effort goes
The main work is usually matching your own VisionVPM fields and rules, then deciding how much history to bring across. The free version imports client and animal lists and is built first for companion animals. Farm, equine and other practice-specific fields may need additions. Enterprise DNA handles the mapping and build work when you have them run it.
Not ready for a call?
Get your VisionVPM switch plan by email
We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off VisionVPM, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.
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Rather talk it through? Book a call arrow_forwardTwo ways off VisionVPM
Try the free version, or have Enterprise DNA build and run yours
Open source
Try the free version
Free
- 1 Get Vet Clinic for Claude Code from GitHub
- 2 Run npm run demo to load the sample practice, then open the folder in Claude Code
- 3 Type /attention to see what the sample practice has outstanding
- 4 Export your VisionVPM clients and animals and ask Claude Code to map the columns to the import
Omni by Enterprise DNA
Have Enterprise DNA build yours
One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
- check Your VisionVPM client and animal lists and vaccine history moved across, with totals matched against the old system
- check Farm, equine and boarding records set up the way your practice works: herds, flocks, studs, syndicates, kennels
- check Extras only if the practice wants them: lab results flowing in, online booking, a web front end for the team
- check We host it and keep it running inside Omni, our managed Command Centre, next to the rest of the practice
Questions
Instead of VisionVPM, answered
VisionVPM handles our farm and equine clients. Will this? expand_more
The free version covers owners, animals, consults, recalls, stock and the drug register, built first for companion animals. Herd and flock numbers, stud details and syndicated owners are what Enterprise DNA adds when we build your version, shaped around the clients you actually see.
We run our ledger and New Zealand payroll in VisionVPM. What happens to those? expand_more
This does not replace your accounting or payroll. The books and pay runs would sit in your accounting software and payroll provider.
How do we compare cost if Covetrus quotes privately? expand_more
Bring your latest VisionVPM invoice to the call. We put it next to a setup fee and a monthly retainer for your own version. If staying where you are makes more sense for your practice, we will say so.
Can our VisionVPM history come across? expand_more
Yes, with mapping. The free version imports client and animal lists from another practice system's export, so VisionVPM's columns need matching up. That matching is part of what we do, and we check the totals against your old system before you switch. Ask Covetrus support for a full export early.
What if we stop working with Enterprise DNA? expand_more
You keep everything. The records are in a database in your practice's name and the software is open source, so your own staff or another provider can carry on with it.
Own the record your practice has spent years building
30 minutes with Sam. We look at what VisionVPM costs you, what your vets and front counter actually use, and what your own version would look like for your mix of clinic and farm work. If it fits, we build it. If not, take the free version and run it yourself.
Vet Clinic for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.
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