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Doctolib
Patient booking and practice management for European healthcare professionals
As of 31 August 2026, Doctolib's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Booking, teleconsultation and practice software used by clinicians in France, Germany and Italy. Softwr lists it under Healthcare. Doctolib is made by Doctolib SAS, available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Doctolib does
Doctolib combines a public-facing patient booking marketplace with practice management software for the clinician. Patients search by speciality and location on doctolib.fr or doctolib.de, book directly into the practitioner diary, and receive SMS and email reminders. On the practice side the product covers the agenda, patient records, teleconsultation video, prescription, and in France the Carte Vitale and Sesam-Vitale billing flows that reimbursement depends on. What distinguishes it is that the marketplace and the software are the same product. A practice that adopts Doctolib is not just buying scheduling, it is listing itself in the directory patients already use to find a physiotherapist or a dermatologist. That inbound patient flow is the actual reason most practices sign, and it is also why the switching cost is high: leaving Doctolib means leaving the listing that generates new patients, not just exporting a diary. Buyers are individual practitioners, group practices, dental and physiotherapy clinics, and hospitals, concentrated in France and Germany with a smaller Italian presence. The trade-off is regional lock-in and pricing opacity. Doctolib does not publish rates on its site; every tier routes to a sales form, and contracts are quoted per practitioner per month on a twelve month commitment. Practices report that the marketplace listing, not the software, is what they are really paying for.
What people use it for
- A French general practice that wants new patients to find and book it without a phone call, and needs Carte Vitale billing in the same tool
- A German physiotherapy clinic replacing a paper diary and cutting no-shows through automated SMS reminders
- A dental group with several sites that needs one shared agenda and per-site patient routing
- A specialist starting a new practice in Paris or Berlin who has no existing patient list and needs the directory as a source of referrals
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- Availability is limited to France, Germany and Italy, so a clinic group operating outside those markets cannot use it at all and a multinational provider cannot standardise on one booking system.
- No pricing is published anywhere on the site; every plan routes to a sales form, so a practice cannot budget or compare against alternatives without giving up contact details and sitting through a call.
- Contracts run on a twelve month commitment per practitioner, so a practice that hires a locum or loses a partner mid-term keeps paying for the seat.
- The commercial value is the marketplace listing rather than the software, which means leaving Doctolib costs a practice its inbound patient discovery, not just a data export; that asymmetry weakens the practice in every renewal negotiation.
- Clinical depth is thinner than a dedicated electronic health record, so practices with complex documentation, coding or research requirements often run Doctolib for scheduling alongside a second clinical system and reconcile the two by hand.
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What people choose instead of Doctolib
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- DoctolibvsNexHealth
NexHealth: If you need patient booking that writes back into an existing US practice management system rather than replacing it
- DoctolibvsCliniko
Cliniko: If you want published per-practitioner pricing and no marketplace lock-in, for allied health in English-speaking markets
Pricing
What Doctolib costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Doctolib Pro
On request
- Marketplace listing and patient booking
- Practice agenda
- SMS and email reminders
- Teleconsultation
- Twelve month minimum commitment
- Priced per practitioner, quoted by a sales adviser
Capabilities
Features
Patient booking marketplace
Public directory where patients search and book by speciality and postcode
Practice agenda
Multi-practitioner diary with room and resource allocation
Teleconsultation
Built-in video consultation with integrated payment
Automated reminders
SMS and email reminders that cut no-show rates
Electronic patient record
Consultation notes, documents and history per patient
Carte Vitale and reimbursement
French Sesam-Vitale card reading and social security billing flows
e-Prescription
Digital prescribing routed to pharmacies where nationally supported
Doctolib Team
Internal messaging and task assignment across practice staff
No-show management
Waiting list that automatically offers cancelled slots
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Questions people ask
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Can I use Doctolib in the UK or the US?
No. Doctolib operates in France, Germany and Italy only. There is no English-market offering.
Does Doctolib publish its prices?
No. Every tier on the site routes to a contact form, and quotes are per practitioner per month with a twelve month commitment.
Is Doctolib a full electronic health record?
Not really. It covers consultation notes, documents and prescribing, but practices with heavy clinical documentation needs usually keep a separate EHR.
What happens to my patient bookings if I leave?
You keep your patient data on export, but you lose the public listing, which is where a large share of new bookings originate.
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