VIA VeterinaryvsEezyVet
ezyVet: Cloud-native with a wide integration catalogue and no diagnostics-vendor ownership
VIA Veterinary
Medically oriented veterinary practice management, now owned by Antech and Mars Veterinary Health
As of 31 August 2026, VIA Veterinary's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A practice management system built around clinical workflow rather than the front desk, first released in 1999 and now part of Mars Veterinary Health via Antech. Softwr lists it under Veterinary. VIA Veterinary is made by VIA Veterinary Information Systems, an Antech company, available on Windows, Web, iOS.
Overview
What VIA Veterinary does
VIA, short for Veterinary Information Assistant, is practice management software for veterinary hospitals, with a stated emphasis on medical workflow rather than reception. It carries integrated SOAP notes, treatment flowsheets, digital whiteboards, DICOM imaging, laboratory results, appointment scheduling, prescription processing, inventory, billing and client communication. It is sold both as a traditional on-premises installation and as VIA Cloud, with implementation, hardware management and support wrapped into the engagement. VIA Touch adds tablet-based use at the treatment area. The fact that changes a shortlist is ownership. VIA Information Systems is an Antech company and part of Mars Veterinary Health, the same group that owns Antech Diagnostics, Banfield, VCA and Sound imaging. Buying VIA means buying practice management software from your diagnostics supplier. In practice that means strong first-party integration with Antech laboratory and imaging, and a long-run roadmap set by a group with a direct interest in where your reference lab work goes. Practices that use IDEXX for in-house and reference diagnostics should test that integration specifically before committing, because it is the point where a corporately owned PIMS is most likely to be thinner than a neutral vendor. Buyers are multi-doctor small animal, emergency, referral, specialty, equine and multi-site hospitals, including large facilities with thirty or more veterinarians, where the flowsheet and whiteboard workflow matters more than the appointment book. Pricing is not published and comes through a sales process, so budgeting requires implementation, data conversion and hardware costs alongside the licence.
What people use it for
- An emergency and critical care hospital that runs on treatment flowsheets and a live whiteboard rather than an appointment calendar
- A multi-doctor specialty referral practice needing DICOM imaging and lab results inside the medical record
- A practice already committed to Antech diagnostics that wants first-party laboratory and imaging integration
- A multi-site hospital group consolidating separate practice management installations onto one system
Related searches
The honest half
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 VIA Veterinary.
- The vendor is owned by Mars Veterinary Health through Antech, the same group that owns Antech Diagnostics, Banfield and VCA, so a practice is buying its record system from its diagnostics supplier and its competitor in the consolidation market.
- No pricing is published at all, so licence, implementation, conversion, hardware and support costs all arrive through a sales process and cannot be compared against alternatives before you engage.
- It remains substantially a Windows on-premises product with a cloud option layered on, so hardware, network and backup remain your operational problem in the traditional deployment.
- Integration depth with IDEXX diagnostics is the obvious risk given the ownership, and a practice with in-house IDEXX analysers should test that path explicitly rather than assume parity with Antech.
- The clinical emphasis means front-of-house and client engagement features, including online booking and marketing automation, tend to arrive through third-party integrations rather than natively.
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of VIA Veterinary
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.
- VIA VeterinaryvsProvet Cloud
Provet Cloud: Independent cloud PIMS with strong referral and multi-site workflow
- VIA VeterinaryvsVetspire
Vetspire: Modern cloud record system for growing groups that want automation over legacy depth
Pricing
What VIA Veterinary costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
VIA Veterinary
On request
- Pricing available only through a sales process
- On-premises or VIA Cloud deployment
- Implementation, data conversion and training quoted per hospital
- Hardware management and cloud backup included in the service
- Multi-site and multi-doctor configurations quoted separately
Capabilities
Features
Clinical flowsheets
Treatment flowsheets and digital whiteboards for inpatient care
Integrated SOAP
Structured medical records tied to orders and billing
DICOM imaging
Digital imaging handled inside the record rather than in a separate viewer
Laboratory results
Results returned into the patient record from reference and in-house analysers
VIA Cloud
Hosted deployment option alongside traditional on-premises installation
VIA Touch
Tablet interface for use in treatment and ward areas
Multi-site
Consolidated management across multiple hospital locations
Open standards integration
Documented integration with third-party veterinary products and services
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.
Who owns VIA?
VIA Information Systems is an Antech company and part of Mars Veterinary Health, the group that also owns Antech Diagnostics, Banfield and VCA.
Is pricing published?
No. Licence, implementation, conversion and support costs come only through a sales process.
Can it run in the cloud?
Yes, VIA Cloud is offered alongside traditional on-premises installation, with cloud backup included.
What kind of practice is it built for?
Medically intensive practices: emergency, specialty, referral, equine and multi-doctor small animal hospitals where flowsheets and whiteboards drive the day.
Keep looking
Where to go from VIA Veterinary
- VIA Veterinary alternativesEvery product people weigh against it
- VIA Veterinary pricingPlans, floors and what the tiers exclude
- VIA Veterinary badgesWhich rules it meets, and the figure behind each
- All Veterinary softwareThe full category
- Best Veterinary softwareThe shortlist, and how it was cut
Best Veterinary software for
Compare VIA Veterinary with
- ezyVet
- Provet Cloud
- Vetspire
- RxWorks
- Animana
- Onward Vet
- Instinct Science
- IDEXX Neo
- Shepherd
- PetDesk
- Talkatoo
- VetBadger
- VisionVPM
- Onward Vet
- Vet Radar
- ImproMed
- Covetrus Pulse
- VisionVPM
Other Veterinary software
Veterinary practice management with clinical decision support
Pricing on request9 researched notesServer-based practice management with a corporate group heritage in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom
Pricing on request12 researched notesBrowser-based practice management for European small-animal clinics, owned by IDEXX
Pricing on request11 researched notesSmall-vendor cloud practice management sold on flat subscription with unlimited users
Pricing on request12 researched notesVeterinary EMR built for emergency and specialty hospitals, plus Plumbs drug reference
Pricing on request13 researched notesCloud practice management from IDEXX, designed around IDEXX analysers and reference laboratories
Pricing on request12 researched notesCloud veterinary practice management built by a practising vet
Pricing on request8 researched notesClient reminders, two-way texting and a pet owner app that syncs with on-premise practice systems
Pricing on request11 researched notesVeterinary dictation that types into any practice management system without needing an integration
Pricing on request11 researched notesCloud veterinary practice management sold in user bands rather than per seat
From $99/mo12 researched notesOn-premise practice management for veterinary groups in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland
Pricing on request11 researched notesSmall-vendor cloud practice management sold on flat subscription with unlimited users
Pricing on request12 researched notesCloud treatment sheets and inpatient whiteboards that push missed charges back into the practice system
Pricing on request11 researched notesOn-premise Windows practice management with deep inventory and financial reporting, now inside Covetrus
Pricing on request12 researched notesVeterinary operating system with pharmacy and client engagement
Pricing on request9 researched notesOn-premise practice management for veterinary groups in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland
Pricing on request11 researched notes
Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for VIA Veterinary, 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.
More on VIA Veterinary
VIA Veterinary alternatives
What people switch to, and what they give up
VIA Veterinary pricing
Every tier, and where the cost actually lands
Compare VIA Veterinary
Put it head to head with anything we hold
VIA Veterinary badge
Its rating, and an embed for your own site
Best Veterinary software alternatives
Cloud practice management from IDEXX, designed around IDEXX analysers and reference laboratories
quote
Long-running Windows practice management software for veterinary clinics, now part of Covetrus
quoteOn-premise Windows practice management with deep inventory and financial reporting, now inside Covetrus
quoteVeterinary EMR built for emergency and specialty hospitals, plus Plumbs drug reference
quote
Server-based practice management with a corporate group heritage in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom
quoteSmall-vendor cloud practice management sold on flat subscription with unlimited users
quote
On-premise veterinary practice management software tied to the IDEXX diagnostics ecosystem
quote