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VisionVPM
On-premise practice management for veterinary groups in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland
As of 31 August 2026, VisionVPM's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A server-installed practice management system with a long history in Australasia, now owned by Covetrus. Softwr lists it under Veterinary. VisionVPM is made by Covetrus, available on Windows.
Overview
What VisionVPM does
VisionVPM is a veterinary practice information management system installed on a server inside the practice. It covers consulting, clinical records, dispensing, invoicing, stock control, debtors and reporting, with modules for mixed and large-animal work as well as small-animal clinics. It originated in New Zealand and is used mainly in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and Ireland. The distinguishing point is that it is on-premise in a market that has moved to cloud. The database sits on hardware the practice controls, so consulting and invoicing continue during an internet outage, which matters for rural mixed practices where connectivity is unreliable and for corporate groups that want their clinical data on their own infrastructure. The commercial consequence runs the other way: on-premise means the practice owns the backup, the server refresh and the upgrade window, and remote access needs a remote desktop layer that someone has to maintain. Buyers are established practices and corporate groups in Australasia and the UK, often ones that have run VisionVPM for a decade or more. The trade-off is roadmap direction. Covetrus, which owns VisionVPM, also owns a cloud product it is steering the market towards, and it also sells wholesale supplies and prescription services that the software is built to order from. A buyer choosing VisionVPM today is choosing a mature and stable system whose long-term development is unlikely to outpace its owner cloud offering.
What people use it for
- A rural mixed practice where internet connectivity is too unreliable to depend on a browser-only system
- A corporate group that requires clinical and financial data to remain on infrastructure it controls
- A farm-heavy practice needing herd recording and monthly account billing that companion-animal cloud systems handle poorly
- An established VisionVPM site weighing an upgrade against the cost and disruption of migrating to a cloud system
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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 VisionVPM.
- It needs a Windows server, a backup regime and someone responsible for both, so the true cost includes IT support that cloud competitors absorb into their subscription.
- Upgrades are scheduled events with downtime rather than transparent releases, which means version drift across a multi-site group and a coordination burden at each release.
- Covetrus is steering customers towards its cloud product, so development effort is unlikely to favour VisionVPM long term and buyers should assume a migration eventually.
- Remote and out-of-hours access requires a remote desktop or Citrix layer, which adds licensing, latency and another system to secure.
- Ordering and prescription workflows are built around Covetrus as the supplier, so a practice buying from other wholesalers loses the automated parts and reverts to manual entry.
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What people choose instead of VisionVPM
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.
- VisionVPMvsEezyVet
ezyVet: A cloud system with strong Australasian roots, if you are ready to give up the local server and want a mature product in the same region
- VisionVPMvsRRxWorks
RxWorks: Another on-premise system with a similar regional footprint, if you want to stay on-premise but reconsider the vendor
Pricing
What VisionVPM costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
VisionVPM
On request
- Licence and annual support quoted per practice
- Server hardware and Windows licences bought separately
- Data migration quoted per site
- Training billed per day
Capabilities
Features
Local database
Clinical records and invoicing run from a server in the practice and survive an internet outage
Large and mixed animal modules
Herd, mob and on-farm visit recording alongside companion animal consulting
Stock and wholesale ordering
Inventory linked to supplier ordering and electronic invoice reconciliation
Debtor and account management
Accounts, statements and payment plans for farm clients billed monthly
Multi-site consolidation
Branch practices reporting into a single group database
Clinical reminders
Vaccination and treatment recall lists generated from the local database
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Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Can VisionVPM run in the cloud?
Only by hosting the Windows server yourself or through a partner and connecting over remote desktop. It is not a browser application and hosting it does not make it one.
Is VisionVPM still being developed?
It receives maintenance and compliance updates, but its owner sells a separate cloud product and directs new development there. Plan on a migration within the life of your next server.
Does it work outside Australasia and the UK?
It is sold and supported in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland. Tax handling and supplier integrations are built for those markets.
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