VetBadger

Cloud veterinary practice management sold in user bands rather than per seat

As of 31 August 2026, VetBadger starts at $99/month. A chart-centric cloud practice management system for small veterinary clinics, priced in user bands starting at USD 99 a month. Softwr lists it under Veterinary. VetBadger is available on Web, iOS, Android.

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Overview

What VetBadger does

VetBadger is cloud-based practice management software for veterinary clinics, built around the patient chart. It covers scheduling, medical records, invoicing, client communication by SMS and email from within the chart, exam reporting, integrated telehealth and QuickBooks accounting sync. Hosting and backup are included rather than sold as an extra, which is not universal in a market where on-premises servers are still common. The pricing structure is what a buyer needs to model carefully. It is banded by user count rather than charged per user: roughly USD 99 a month for one to two users, USD 249 for three to ten, USD 499 for eleven to twenty and USD 599 for twenty-one to forty. A practice with exactly three users therefore pays USD 249, the same as one with ten, which works out at USD 83 per user rather than the USD 24.90 a full band would give. Crossing a band boundary produces a step change, not a gradual increase, so the moment you hire a third or an eleventh user your software bill jumps. Buyers are independent single-site small animal clinics, particularly ones migrating from a legacy server-based system and unwilling to run their own hardware. The trade-off is scope: VetBadger targets general practice and does not carry the specialty, referral, equine or large multi-site depth found in the bigger platforms, and its integration list is shorter than the market leaders, which matters most for in-house laboratory and imaging equipment.

What people use it for

A two-vet small animal clinic moving off an ageing on-premises server that nobody wants to maintain
A practice that wants client texting logged against the medical record rather than sitting in a separate messaging tool
A clinic adding telehealth consultations without buying a separate video and payment stack
An owner who wants exam and revenue reporting without exporting to a spreadsheet every month

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about VetBadger.

Pricing is banded rather than per seat, so a three-user clinic pays USD 249, the same as a ten-user one, which is roughly USD 83 per user against USD 25 for a practice that fills the band.
Crossing a band boundary is a step change, so hiring one extra person can raise the software bill by USD 150 or USD 250 overnight with no extra capability in return.
The integration list is short compared with the market leaders, and in-house laboratory and imaging equipment support is the usual gap, which can mean manual result entry.
It is aimed at general small animal practice, with none of the specialty, referral, equine or ambulatory workflow depth that larger platforms carry.
As a smaller vendor it has less migration tooling and fewer conversion specialists than the large incumbents, so moving years of legacy records in is more of a project than a service.

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What people choose instead of VetBadger

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.

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ezyVet
ezyVet: Deeper functionality and far more integrations for multi-site, specialty and referral practices
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Shepherd
Shepherd: Another modern cloud option built around the medical record, with per user pricing rather than bands
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Provet Cloud
Provet Cloud: Stronger fit for multi-site and referral workflows, with international support

Pricing

What VetBadger costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

1 to 2 users

$99 /mo

Cloud hosting and backup included
Full medical records and scheduling
Chart-centric SMS and email
Invoicing
Integrated telehealth

3 to 10 users

$249 /mo

Same feature set across the band
Flat price whether you have three users or ten
Exam detail reporting
QuickBooks integration

11 to 20 users

$499 /mo

Multi-user scheduling
Full reporting
Priority support

21 to 40 users

$599 /mo

Largest published band
All features included
Support for larger single-site practices

Capabilities

Features

Chart-centric workflow
Records, communication and billing organised around the patient chart
Banded pricing
Charged by user band rather than per seat, with hosting included
Chart SMS and email
Client messaging sent and logged from inside the medical record
Integrated telehealth
Remote consultations without a separate video subscription
Exam reporting
Full exam detail reporting for clinical and business review
QuickBooks sync
Accounting integration for invoicing and reconciliation
Cloud hosting
Hosting and backup included in the subscription
Reminders
Automated vaccination and recheck reminders to clients

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

How is VetBadger priced?

By user band: roughly USD 99 a month for one to two users, USD 249 for three to ten, USD 499 for eleven to twenty and USD 599 for twenty-one to forty.

Is hosting extra?

No. Cloud hosting and backup are included in the subscription, with no server to buy or maintain.

Does it do telehealth?

Yes, integrated telehealth is included rather than sold as an add-on.

Is it suitable for a specialty or referral hospital?

Not really. It is built for general small animal practice and lacks specialty, referral and equine workflow depth.

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Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for VetBadger, because a rating we did not collect is not ours to publish. What is here is the pricing and platform detail from the vendor’s own pages, limitations we could state concretely, and alternatives a reviewer confirmed people weigh against it. Tell us if any of it is wrong.

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