Built by a company that isn’t going anywhere.
Veterinary practice software has had a rough few years for the people actually using it. Vendors get bought, roadmaps get frozen, support lines get outsourced, and prices move in ways nobody signed up for — usually right after the paperwork on an acquisition closes. Vivetra exists because that pattern is common enough in this category to be worth building around, not just complaining about.
We’re not a rollup, and we’re not being prepared to become one. Vivetra is one shared-core platform with six services — vet practice, hospital, boarding, shelter, equine, and livestock — sold on a flat monthly price adjusted on a small, published cadence, live now in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
A category full of exits
Look at almost any list of veterinary practice-management vendors and you’ll find the same story repeating: acquired by a larger platform, acquired by a private-equity-backed holding company, folded into a bigger portfolio. Sometimes the product gets better. Often the practice using it just finds out, after the fact, that the deal they never agreed to changed what they pay.
One public, sourced example: acquired Hippo Manager March 1 2025, no option to stay on old platform; ~$119/DVM/mo moved to ~$299/DVM/mo (publicly reported, not vendor-confirmed) — a straightforward before-and-after that any practice budgeting a year in advance would want to know about ahead of time, not after the invoice changes.
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This isn’t a knock on any one company — acquisitions happen for all kinds of reasons, and plenty close on good terms. It’s just the honest backdrop Vivetra is built against: if a real, sourced example of an acquisition-driven repricing exists in this exact category, that’s a fair thing for anyone evaluating practice software to weigh, whoever they end up choosing.
What Vivetra is instead
One flat price, no surprises
Your first service is $200/mo, unlimited doctors and staff, fully managed hosting included — not a footnote, the actual headline. Each additional service adds a flat $50/mo. See the full bundle table.
Fully managed hosting, included
You never touch a server, never patch an OS, never restore your own backup. That’s part of the price every practice pays, not something reserved for an enterprise tier.
Live in six countries, not one waitlist
United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand are all live today — real signups, not a “join our list” holding page. See a currency and tax note in your own terms using the switcher in the header.
What we don’t pretend
Being straightforward about the acquisition pattern above only means something if we’re just as straightforward about our own limits. Two, plainly:
- We’re new. We don’t have a decade of uptime history or a long list of long-tenured customers the way some of the vendors in this category do. What we do have instead: no acquisition debt to service, no rollup thesis requiring your price to jump overnight, a small, published adjustment cadence instead of a surprise repricing, and a product that is visibly still moving — client portals for all six services and online payments both shipped inside the last week, not in a roadmap deck.
- Online payments are real, and not evenly spread yet. Your practice connects its own Stripe account — you keep your own Stripe relationship and your own processing rates, and a small Vivetra platform fee applies on top of Stripe’s own — and from there your clients can pay bills, estimates, and deposits online. But it is new, and the coverage is uneven: saved cards are live in Boarding & Grooming, Hospital, Shelter, and Equine; Vet Practice takes a full balance today and doesn’t store cards yet; Livestock has no online-payment feature at all, deliberately. We’d rather you hear the uneven parts from us on this page than discover them after signing up.
Questions people ask before they sign up
Is Vivetra backed by private equity, or built to be flipped and resold?
No. Vivetra is an independently built product with a fixed, published pricing schedule — not a portfolio company being groomed for an exit. There is no rollup thesis behind it that needs your monthly bill to jump to make the math work for someone else.
What actually happens to a practice when its software vendor gets acquired?
It varies by deal, but the pattern in veterinary practice software is public and worth knowing before you sign a contract. acquired Hippo Manager March 1 2025, no option to stay on old platform; ~$119/DVM/mo moved to ~$299/DVM/mo (publicly reported, not vendor-confirmed) See the sourced vet-practice comparison for the citation and every other claim on this site.
Could Vivetra's own price ever change?
Yes — and we say so up front rather than pretending otherwise. Vivetra moves on a small, fixed adjustment roughly every two years, locked for the full term either way — see the pricing page for how it works. What we're promising is the opposite of a surprise repricing after a change of ownership: predictable, small, and never sprung on you mid-term.
Do I have to manage the hosting, or does someone do it for me?
We manage it for you — fully managed hosting is included. You never touch a server, never patch an OS, and never restore your own backup — that's part of the monthly price, not a paid add-on.
See it for yourself
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