"Live in under 60 minutes" is easy to say and hard to trust. Most clinic software leaves you staring at blank settings pages for a weekend. Clinic Membership is built the other way round: auto-onboarding does the heavy lift so you can be live on the operational side in under an hour.
Here is how that setup works. If you want longer reads on timelines and cost, those are covered separately in clinic software setup time and clinic software upfront cost in the UK.
It sets itself up
Auto-onboarding runs on every Clinic Membership plan, including Free. That is how a clinic gets from sign-up to a usable system without a blank-page project.
What setup looks like:
- It scans your website. Services, pricing and appointment times are pulled across so you are not typing the catalogue from scratch.
- It pre-fills the clinic. Basics land in the right places before you open an empty form.
- It walks you through a short confirm flow. You check what came across instead of building everything by hand.
- You fill a few blanks. Confirm what looks right, add anything the site did not carry, and you are ready to run the day.
Free covers up to 10 patient records. See pricing for paid plans.
The software sets itself up. Your job in that first hour is mostly to check and confirm, not to rebuild the clinic in a spreadsheet.
What you can run once it is live
Once auto-onboarding has done its pass, the operational core is open:
- Account and clinic basics. Name, timezone, and the settings you need to open the diary.
- Patient list ready for new work. Add patients and see them on the calendar without inventing a second spreadsheet.
- Calendar you can book into. New appointments land where the team will check tomorrow morning.
- Membership and payment paths available. Recurring card payments sit on the commercial path.
- Reports you can open. Early numbers are thin on day one, but the place to look is already the same system.
That is live in under 60 minutes in practice: the system can take work because setup was not a weekend of empty fields.
If you have export files from your old system, you can self-import appointment history into Clinic Membership as part of setup. The system steps you through that import so past bookings and patient history land in the same place as new work. Reception can book, find, and take payment without juggling old logins, with the history already on the path in.
What you still decide
Setup gets the operational core open. The membership decisions that shape how you sell stay with you.
That first hour is for confirming what the scan pulled and opening the diary. It is not the moment to finish your commercial offer. Outside the stopwatch you still choose how membership plans are structured: what sits inside each plan, what stays as a one-off treatment, which tiers you keep, and which you retire. Pricing and plan names are clinic calls too. See pricing for Clinic Membership plan options; your own membership prices and inclusions are yours to set.
If clinical notes and consent (EMR) matter for your work, that sits with Documenti rather than inside this first-hour setup. Appointment history can still come across on the self-import path when your export files are ready.
Start with auto-onboarding so the diary opens cleanly. Then, on a normal week, settle the membership plan structure and inclusions once the team can already book tomorrow's list.
Where Clinic Membership sits
Clinic Membership is clinic management software for UK aesthetics clinics: patients, calendar, memberships, payments and reports in one place. Auto-onboarding runs on every plan including Free, and a clinic can be live in under 60 minutes on the operational side because the software sets itself up. Free covers up to 10 patient records. See pricing for paid plans.
If you are weighing how long a switch takes, or what upfront cost looks like beyond this first-hour setup, read clinic software setup time and clinic software upfront cost in the UK.
What to do this week
- Time a dry run of auto-onboarding on Free before you move real patients.
- Have your live website ready so the scan has something useful to pull.
- Sit with one starter for the first hour only. If they can book a patient and find tomorrow's list without calling you, setup did its job.
- Put membership plan structure, inclusions and pricing decisions on a follow-up list for the rest of the week, not on the stopwatch.
Live in under 60 minutes holds when the software does the heavy lift and you only confirm the blanks. One last owner check: if the diary is open and the team still opens three old logins for payments, close those loops on your follow-up list before you call the switch done.
