Vivetra vs. the field, in one honest table

Where Vivetra is the weaker choice — on purpose or not

A comparison you can only lose by hiding. Here are the ones that matter across the whole family:

• Online payments run through your own Stripe account — and there’s a platform fee. Your clients pay bills, estimates, and deposits online, but you connect your own Stripe account to do it: you keep your own Stripe relationship and your own rates, and the money lands in your account, not ours. On top of Stripe’s own rate there’s a small Vivetra platform fee. If you’d rather not use Stripe at all, that part of the product won’t suit you. What each service supports also differs — Vet Practice is full-balance only with no saved cards yet, and Livestock charges cards and sends payment links to farm clients but has no pay button in the producer portal itself.
• We’re newer than the incumbents. Some vendors in this category have shipped for decades — Verifac, for one, since 1978. Vivetra is a newer vendor with a shorter track record — real, and worth weighing against a flat price and unlimited staff.
• Service-specific gaps are stated on each service’s own page. No native mobile app (PWA only), no client self-booking for clinical appointments — boarding and grooming can book themselves in real time if the facility switches that on (request-and-approve, where staff approves every booking, is the default), but a Vet Practice client always requests an appointment and your staff schedules it — and no Petfinder/Adopt-a-Pet syndication for shelters yet. Each one is spelled out where it belongs, not buried.