Your own patient membership plan, one flat fee, no per-member charges
Practice Plans lets patients without insurance subscribe to a care plan you design: a monthly or yearly fee for cleanings, exams and a discount on treatment, billed automatically through your practice's own Stripe account. You pay one flat software fee whether you have 20 members or 2,000.
- Payments go straight to your Stripe account; we never hold your money and never take a cut per member.
- Templates for adult, child, perio and family dental plans, wellness plans for dogs and cats, and med-spa memberships, each editable in minutes.
- Members see benefits, renewal date and visit history on a simple portal; your front desk sees who is current before the appointment.
More than 25% of US adults have no dental insurance.
Source: drbicuspid.comBoomCloud, an incumbent in membership-plan software, lists $197 per month plus $4.50 per member per month, or $397 plus $3.50 per member.
Source: boomcloudapps.comA quarter of adults have no dental insurance, and the software to serve them is priced like a payer
Patients without insurance skip cleanings and delay treatment, then arrive with bigger problems. A practice-run membership plan fixes the incentive: a predictable fee covers preventive care and discounts treatment, patients come in on schedule, and the practice earns recurring revenue it does not have to chase through an insurer.
The hard part has never been plan design; it is operations. Enrolling people, charging cards every month, catching failed payments, knowing who is current, applying the right discount at the right visit, and renewing a year later. Done on paper or in the notes field of the practice software, it falls apart somewhere around member sixty.
Existing membership software works, but its pricing grows with your success: a base fee near $200 a month plus a per-member charge means a 300-member plan costs more than $1,500 a month in software alone. Practice Plans charges one flat fee so a small practice can start a plan and keep the margin as it grows.
Without it
- BoomCloud and similar membership platforms: BoomCloud lists $197 per month plus $4.50 per member, or $397 plus $3.50. These products are mature and may include…
- A spreadsheet and your card terminal: Free and fine for the first 30 members. It breaks on failed payments, renewals and knowing who is current at the front…
- Third-party discount plans: Patients can buy a dental discount card from an outside company. You get none of the fee and do not control the terms.…
With Practice Plans
- Payments go straight to your Stripe account; we never hold your money and never take a cut per member.
- Templates for adult, child, perio and family dental plans, wellness plans for dogs and cats, and med-spa memberships, each editable in minutes.
- Members see benefits, renewal date and visit history on a simple portal; your front desk sees who is current before the appointment.
- Plan templates
- Flat-fee billing through your Stripe
How it works
- 1
Design the plan
Pick a template (adult, child, perio, family, pet wellness, med-spa) and set the price, billing cycle, included services and treatment discounts. Templates include suggested plain-English plan terms for you to edit with your advisors.
- 2
Connect Stripe
Connect your existing Stripe account or create one in a few minutes. Stripe charges the cards and pays out to your bank on its normal schedule; we never touch the funds.
- 3
Enroll members
The front desk enrolls a patient in about two minutes, or patients sign up from a link on your website. They accept your terms, enter a card and receive a welcome email with their benefits.
- 4
Let it run
Renewals, failed-payment retries, member status, benefit usage and reminders run on their own. Your team sees a member's status and remaining benefits before each visit.
Features
Plan templates
Dental (adult, child, perio maintenance, family), veterinary wellness (dog, cat, senior pet) and med-spa memberships, each with suggested inclusions, discount tiers and terms. Edit anything; create unlimited plans.
Flat-fee billing through your Stripe
Monthly or annual billing, family and multi-pet bundles and prorated upgrades through Stripe Connect to your own account. Stripe's card fees apply; we add nothing on top.
Failed-payment recovery
Automatic retries over 14 days, texts and emails asking the member to update their card, and a front-desk flag so the team can collect at the next visit.
Member portal
Members see their plan, benefits used and remaining, next charge date, and can update a card or add a family member or pet. No app to install.
Benefit tracking
Record each covered visit (cleaning, exam, x-rays, wellness exam) against the plan. The system shows what is left and warns before a member exceeds included services.
Front-desk check
Search by name or phone and see status, plan, discount percentage and last payment on one screen, so the right discount is applied at checkout.
Reports and exports
Active members, monthly recurring revenue, churn, renewals due and payments by period. Export CSV for your accountant or your practice management software.
A look inside
What you see day to day: the working view and the monthly summary.
Who it's for
Independent dental practices
One to three dentists, a steady share of uninsured patients and a front desk that cannot babysit a spreadsheet. You get a plan live within a week and a screen that answers 'is this patient current?'
Veterinary clinics
Wellness plans for dogs and cats spread the cost of annual exams, vaccines and dental cleanings across the year. Same enrollment, billing and benefit tracking, with pet-level records.
Med-spas
Monthly memberships for facials, treatment credits or laser packages. Practice Plans handles the recurring billing and credit tracking without a per-member fee.
Works with
- Stripe Connect (payments land in your own Stripe account)
- CSV export of members and payments for your practice management software
- Email and SMS reminders to members
- Website sign-up link or embedded form
- Signed plan terms stored as PDF
- QuickBooks-ready CSV of payouts
- Zapier webhook on new enrollments
Pricing
Flat monthly fee, no per-member charges, no setup fee, cancel any time. Stripe's card processing fees are paid to Stripe. Founding customer pricing is locked for 24 months for accounts opened in early access. Unlimited members on every plan.
Solo
$49 per month
Single-location practices launching a first plan
- 1 location
- Unlimited members, no per-member fee
- Dental plan templates
- Stripe Connect billing and failed-payment recovery
- Member portal
- Front-desk status check
- Email support
Practice
$79 per month
Established practices that want the full toolkit
- Everything in Solo
- Vet and med-spa templates
- Family and multi-pet bundles
- SMS and email renewal reminders
- Benefit tracking and reports
- CSV exports for your practice software and accountant
- HIPAA Business Associate Agreement on request
Group
$199 per month
Groups and consultants managing several locations
- Up to 5 locations (more on request)
- Everything in Practice
- Consolidated and per-location reports
- Consultant workspace for client practices
- Custom plan terms per location
- Priority support, 1-business-day response
Compared with the alternatives
- BoomCloud and similar membership platforms
- BoomCloud lists $197 per month plus $4.50 per member, or $397 plus $3.50. These products are mature and may include features we do not have yet, such as live practice-software integrations. If you need deep integration today, they may be worth it; for a new or mid-sized plan, the flat fee saves most of the cost.
- A spreadsheet and your card terminal
- Free and fine for the first 30 members. It breaks on failed payments, renewals and knowing who is current at the front desk, which is where members quietly lapse.
- Third-party discount plans
- Patients can buy a dental discount card from an outside company. You get none of the fee and do not control the terms. An in-house plan keeps the relationship and the recurring revenue with the practice.
What changed
- More than 25% of US adults have no dental insurance. Source: drbicuspid.com
- BoomCloud, an incumbent in membership-plan software, lists $197 per month plus $4.50 per member per month, or $397 plus $3.50 per member. Source: boomcloudapps.com
Your first week
We set up new accounts within 2 business days and stay with you until your first ten members are enrolled.
- Day 1: Pick a template, set prices and inclusions, upload your logo, connect Stripe.
- Day 2–3: We review your plan terms layout with you (you confirm compliance with your advisors), sign the BAA if requested, and switch on live enrollment.
- Day 4–5: 30-minute front-desk training; enroll your first members in-office and post the sign-up link on your website.
- Day 7: First report: members enrolled, revenue scheduled, any failed payments. We adjust reminder wording together.
Security and data
- Data is stored on servers in the United States, encrypted in transit and at rest.
- Card numbers never touch our servers; Stripe stores and charges them.
- Access is role-based: owners, office managers and front-desk staff see only what their role needs, and every change to a member record is logged.
- We sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement on request and use patient data for nothing other than running your plan.
- On cancellation you can export everything; we delete your data 90 days after the account closes, or sooner on request.
Questions
Are in-house membership plans legal in my state?
In most states practices run them routinely, but some states regulate these plans, for example by treating them as discount medical plans that require registration, specific disclosures or a bond. Practice Plans is software, not legal advice. Before launching, confirm requirements with your state dental or veterinary board, your state insurance regulator and your attorney. Our templates include fields for the disclosures many states ask for.
Does it integrate with my practice management software?
Not with a live sync at launch. You can export members, status and payments as CSV for Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental or your veterinary software, and the front-desk check screen is designed to sit next to your practice system. Live integrations are on the roadmap, built in the order founding customers ask for them.
Will you sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement?
Yes, on request and at no charge for dental and med-spa practices. We store the minimum: name, contact details, plan, payments and the visit records you enter. Card data lives with Stripe, not with us. Veterinary records are not covered by HIPAA, but we handle them the same way.
Where does the money go?
Directly into your own Stripe account, which pays out to your bank on Stripe's schedule. We use Stripe Connect only to create and manage the subscriptions; we never hold or route your funds and add no fee on top of Stripe's.
What happens when a member's card fails?
Stripe retries over 14 days while we email and text the member to update their card. The front desk sees a payment-overdue flag so they can collect at the next visit. After the retry window the plan is suspended until payment resumes.
Can patients cancel mid-year?
That is your policy, not ours. Templates include common options: an annual commitment paid monthly, month-to-month with 30 days' notice, and refund rules. Whatever you set appears in the terms the member accepts at enrollment, and your team can cancel or refund from the dashboard.
How fast can we launch?
Most practices can be enrolling members within a week. We onboard new accounts within 2 business days, which covers reviewing your plan terms layout, connecting Stripe and a 30-minute front-desk training call.
Ready when you are
Tell us about your setup. We confirm by email and get you running within 2 business days.
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