The best aesthetic clinic software in the UK

The short version, by type of clinic

• Solo nurse prescriber or small injectables practice: Aesthetic Nurse Software or Faces. ANS publishes its prices and covers prescriptions, batch numbers and photo consent. Faces is free to use and builds prescribing and stock ordering into the same app, taking a commission on deposits instead.
• Multi-practitioner medical aesthetics clinic: Pabau or Clinicminds. Both are built around detailed clinical records and multi-location teams, and both price on a quote.
• Skin and beauty clinic where marketing is the priority: Phorest, which puts marketing, loyalty, memberships and ads tools at the centre of its aesthetics plans.
• A clinic that mainly needs booking: Fresha, which has the lowest published subscription of the six, though its payment and marketplace fees need reading carefully.

None of these is right for every clinic, and all of them add features often. Use this page to build a shortlist of two or three to demo, not as a verdict.

What aesthetic clinic software needs to handle

Booking is the easy part. The parts that protect you are consent, photos and prescribing records.

Booking and deposits

Online booking that works from your website, Instagram and Google Business Profile, with deposits taken at the point of booking. Deposits are the simplest defence against no-shows on long appointments like skin boosters or filler.

Consultation forms and consent

Medical history sent before the appointment, treatment-specific consent signed digitally, and both stored against the patient record with a date. You want to be able to show exactly what a patient agreed to, and when, without hunting through a paper file.

Before-and-after photos

Photos should live in the system, not on a practitioner's personal phone. Look for permission controls on who can see them, and separate photo consent that records whether a patient has agreed to clinical use only or to marketing use as well. Photos taken as part of treatment form part of the patient's health record, so they need the same security as the rest of it.

Prescribing workflow

Botulinum toxin and several other aesthetic medicines are prescription-only. Since 1 June 2025, the Nursing and Midwifery Council has required nurse and midwife prescribers to hold a face-to-face consultation before prescribing for non-surgical cosmetic procedures, and says remote methods such as phone, video or a third party are not appropriate, including for follow-ups (NMC guidance for prescribers). Your software should record who assessed the patient, who prescribed, the product, the dose, and the batch number and expiry date.

Marketing tools

Rebooking reminders, review requests, email and SMS campaigns, and sometimes memberships or loyalty schemes. Use them carefully: prescription-only medicines such as botulinum toxin can't be advertised to the public, and the ASA counts your own website and social posts as advertising (ASA advice on botulinum toxin). A campaign tool will happily send a toxin offer to your whole list; that doesn't make it allowed. Our page on paid ads for aesthetic clinics covers what you can promote instead.

Aesthetic clinic software UK comparison

Checked on each vendor's own website in October 2026. "Not stated" means we couldn't find it on their site, not that it definitely doesn't exist.

Prices exclude VAT where the vendor says so. Card payment fees, SMS bundles and add-ons are extra on most platforms, so ask for a total monthly figure based on your own team size and appointment volume.

What each one is like

Pabau

An all-in-one platform for clinics, covering booking, forms, clinical records with photo comparison, ePrescribing, payments and marketing. Plans are tiered by team size, from Solo (one user) through Team, Medium and Group to Enterprise for 16+ users across multiple locations. Pabau shows prices after a demo rather than on the page, and some marketing and engagement features sit in paid add-ons. A strong fit for a medical aesthetics clinic that wants one system for everything and has the time to set it up properly.

Phorest

Phorest comes from the salon world and its three aesthetics plans lean into what salons do well: booking with deposits, reminders, review requests, a branded app, loyalty, memberships and lead management. Digital consultation and consent forms and before-and-after photo storage are included. We found no mention of prescribing on its pricing page, so a clinic that prescribes should ask how that part of the workflow is handled. Pricing is on request.

Fresha

Fresha publishes its prices: £14.95 a month for one bookable team member, or £9.95 per team member a month on its Team plan, excluding VAT. Payment processing is charged per transaction, and new clients who find you through the Fresha marketplace carry a one-off 20% commission (minimum £4). Consultation forms can require a signature and are stored on the client profile. It is a booking-first tool; we found no prescribing features or dedicated photo comparison, so medical aesthetics clinics may outgrow it.

Aesthetic Nurse Software (ANS)

Built for aesthetic practitioners, and one of the few that publishes clinical features in detail. Prescriptions can be created, signed and forwarded to a prescribing doctor, batch and lot numbers are recorded with expiry dates, and injection points can be mapped on patient photos. The Foundation plan is £25 + VAT a month for up to 150 patients; Advanced is £50 + VAT with unlimited patients, stock management and a customised booking page. Plans are priced per bookable practitioner, with a custom quote for 15+, and there is a free trial.

Faces

Faces is free to use, with a 1.5% commission on deposits taken through its booking system. It includes a large library of consent and aftercare forms, booking with client finance, and a marketplace for buying stock and finding prescribers. That business model suits a solo practitioner who wants to keep fixed costs at zero. The trade-off is that the app also sells you products, and features such as photo storage are less clearly documented than with the paid systems.

Clinicminds

Developed by aesthetic physicians, Clinicminds structures each record as consultation, examination, medical history, informed consent, treatments, drawings, photos and invoices, all customisable. It includes an AI scribe (Quinn AI) and video consultations. Pricing starts from €160 a month on its pricing page and is quoted by number of locations and practitioners, with support staff free. Setup and migration of basic patient data are included; SMS is sold in bundles.

What is the best booking software for aesthetic clinics?

If booking is genuinely all you need, Fresha and Faces are the cheapest ways in, and ANS's Foundation plan is not far behind with stronger clinical records. What matters more than the brand is that:

• Deposits are taken at the point of booking, for every treatment over a set length or price
• Consultation and consent forms go out automatically when a treatment is booked
• The booking link works from your Google Business Profile, Instagram bio and website without sending people round in circles
• You can see which bookings came from which source, so you know what your marketing is doing

Be careful with marketplace bookings. A marketplace can bring in new clients, but commission on first visits adds up, and the client's relationship sits partly with the platform rather than with your clinic. Your own clinic website and Google Business Profile should be doing most of the work. If they aren't, our guide on why a website isn't showing on Google is a good place to start.

How to choose aesthetic clinic software

1. Write down what you do in a week. How many practitioners, how many prescribe, which treatments, how many locations. That rules half the options in or out.
2. Demo with a real scenario. Ask the vendor to walk through a new toxin patient from booking to consultation, consent, prescribing, photos and the two-week review. Watch how many clicks it takes.
3. Get a total monthly cost. Subscription, per-practitioner charges, payment fees, SMS, add-ons and any marketplace commission.
4. Ask about your data. Where it is stored, whether there is a data processing agreement, and whether you can export everything, including photos and consent forms, if you leave.
5. Check permissions. Front desk, practitioners and prescribers usually need different access, especially to photos.
6. Plan the move. Ask what the vendor migrates for free and what costs extra. Historical records and photos are usually the hard part.

If you are still setting up, our guide to starting an aesthetics clinic in the UK covers the steps around the software, from registration to insurance.