Effortlessly handle appointment confirmations, reminders, surveys, and follow-ups with fully customisable automated communications via SMS or email. You have complete control over the tone, timing, and content of every message.
Add a personal touch with dynamic variables, such as the client’s first name, or a link to their individualised intake form.
Save time and reduce administrative resources by giving patients the freedom to make bookings online at their convenience, 24/7. Maintain full control over your schedule with advanced booking options:
- Exclude specific services from online bookings to the public.
- Enable booking requests for manual approval rather than automatic confirmations.
Want to appear more in demand? Bookem lets you make your schedule seem busier than it really is, helping you build a professional and exclusive image without showing all your available times.
Offer patients a seamless booking experience by enabling instant online payments for select services. You can also choose which services require payment to confirm a booking, and which only requires payment later.
Alternatively, you can send unpaid invoices after appointments, allowing clients to pay directly via secure online payment links. Payments are automatically reconciled, saving you valuable time and reducing the risk of human error.
Whether payments are made upfront or after the appointment, Bookem ensures everything stays organised for you.
Create better patient communication by allowing patients to respond to automated messages such as appointment reminders or confirmations. Bookem allows you to reply to their messages or send manual updates for last-minute changes, like letting a client know if an appointment is running slightly behind schedule straight from Bookem.
All message threads are stored securely within each client’s profile under the Messages tab, making it simple to keep track of conversations and stay organised.
Effortlessly schedule recurring appointments, ensuring patients never miss a session. Automate regular bookings for ongoing care, reducing admin time and keeping your calendar organised. Adjust or cancel recurring sessions as needed, giving you and your clients flexibility while maintaining a consistent schedule.
Rules can be set up to automatically send patients forms you need them to complete, such as intake forms or questionnaires after a particular kind of appointment. Forms are fully customisable, and are optimised for your patient's device, whether it's mobile, tablet or desktop.
Forms consist of flexible field types, such as short or long text fields, multiple choice, checkboxes or images, such as body charts, for annotation. Signatures can be added as a compulsory field for patients to complete, and they do this using their fingers (on mobile/tablets) or their mouse (desktop) before they are able to submit the forms.
Forms can be set up to automatically merge with their profiles upon submission.
This data is then available to be used in various ways, for e.g., auto completing invoices with medical aid details, for using in automated messaging, or for auto-completing other forms that need to get filled out by patients that have an overlap in questions that need answering.
Questions you ask patients when they book online can be customised for different services. Add diagrams or body charts for them to draw onto, such as 'Draw with your mouse or finger on the area where you recently had surgery.'
Bookem knows who is being invoiced and can also know why, so invoices get sensibly populated with information that takes unnecessary time or effort.
For effortless medical aid-compliant invoicing, quickly search through and add ICD-10, treatment/procedure codes, descriptions and pricing.
NAPPI, consumable, SKU, or other codes, descriptions and pricing can be loaded too.
Save time and eliminate costly mistakes by creating groups of multiple invoice line items (codes, descriptions and pricing) for inserting one or more of these groups into an invoice with a click.
For patient's that get invoiced similarly every session, just choose to copy from any of their most recent invoices and make any changes that might be needed.
Bookem allows for various manual payment methods (POS, cash, or EFT), as well as online credit card payments through online payment gateways such as Snapscan, Wig Wag, Payfast, and/or Paypal.
Payments made with online payment gateways are reconciled automatically, e.g. a client pays their bill with Snapscan and it gets marked as paid automatically.
View account reports such as Age Analysis, Invoices issued or Payments recorded online. Download your time-based accounts data into pre-added filtered spreadsheets for truly flexible reporting.
With this option enabled, bookings are only confirmed when payment has been received. Online payments are linked to invoices and recorded automatically, which confirms the booking immediately afterwards.
Use and customise document templates for clinical notes, referral letters, imaging requests, sick notes, or prescriptions. Store all relevant patient documents in one central location on the patient profile for easy access.
Customise templates with text fields, headings, multiple-choice options, checkboxes, one-click signature blocks, and reusable images like body charts or diagrams that patients can interact with.
Upload images or take photos while making notes. Annotate images directly, including clinical diagrams or body charts, to streamline visual tracking and communication.
Store files associated with your patients, such as:
- pathology / lab results
- referral letters (scans, pdfs, etc.)
- x-rays, MRIs or scans
- images or photos
- scripts
Add voice recordings to documents for easy note-taking and transcribe them instantly into written records.
Easily download documents or send them as secure links to external parties in just a few clicks.
Email referral letters, prescriptions, sick notes, or other documents directly from Bookem to multiple recipients.
Easily send personalised resources like home exercise programs, nutrition plans, care instructions, or other tailored content directly to patients.
For early users, transform transcriptions into complete documents with a single click. AI integrates seamlessly with templates, allowing you to create ready-to-use clinical notes, referral letters, and more. This feature will be widely available in 2025.
Use Bookem for an integrated video call platform with unlimited minutes included in your subscription.
Bookem's video call software is secure and easy to use for you or your patients. No software download required.
Automatic reminders to your patients include links to join their calls in a single click.
Book patients for video calls yourself, or let them book online.
If no-shows for video calls tend to get out of control, Bookem can require online payment from patients before their appointment is confirmed, even if other types of online appointments don't require up-front payment.
Prefer to use other platforms such as Zoom, Google Meet, FaceTime or Microsoft Teams? No problem. Simply replace our video call link with a link from your favourite video call service, and we'll automatically direct your clients to their call on their automated email/SMS messages and reminders.
Even you can join calls using these platforms with one click directly from your Bookem calendar; in other words, without having to launch these external apps manually each time you have a call.
You'll get to try out Forms, Invoicing, Documents, video calling, and all other Bookem features for free for 21 days, no credit card required.
“Choosing Bookem was one of the best decisions I've ever made for my telemedicine GP practice! It has made the admin side of things so easy that I don't even need a receptionist/administrator. All of my bookings, payments and invoicing are almost completely automated, it takes less than 10 seconds to send bills to my clients now!
Dr Megan Martin
“Thanks for the great service and product!
Dr Azzaam Najjaar
“A really user friendly and comprehensive platform that covers a vast range applications. Really good value for money and incredible tech support from the Bookem support.
Dr Raveena Manga
“Bookem is delivering. Bookem keeps working on improving things that can be added. The Help Team is fantastic. Not once have I waited more than a few hours before getting a useful response, which sets Bookem leagues above any other system we have worked with. To get all of this from a home grown company is fantastic.
Sandra Fuld, The Balance Group
“Choosing Bookem was one of the best decisions I've ever made for my telemedicine GP practice! It has made the admin side of things so easy that I don't even need a receptionist/administrator. All of my bookings, payments and invoicing are almost completely automated, it takes less than 10 seconds to send bills to my clients now!
Dr Megan Martin
Absolutely. Give us a call or mail us to arrange the best time for a customised set-up and coaching session on how to use Bookem best in your business to optimise your workflow.
We have a data conversion tool for you to use to import your existing client-base into Bookem. Do it yourself or we'll do it for you.
Yes, and we've made it easier for your business to be compliant by letting you securely store your client data online.
Bookem is developed, supported and based in Cape Town, South Africa.
We currently support SnapScan, PayFast and PayPal, with more on the way.
Bookem can be set up to sync to your Google, iCloud and Outlook calendars, and vice versa.
Invoices issued on Bookem include all information required for medical aid claims, such as ICD-10 codes, procedure/treatment codes and NAPPI codes.