Vivetra vs. Eclipse & the UK & Ireland equine field
Shopping for equine practice software in the UK and Ireland is a shorter list than it looks. When we went looking for named specialist equine platforms we could cite real, current, sourced facts for in this market, we found exactly one: Eclipse Veterinary Software. Rather than pad the table with names we couldn’t honestly source, we’ll be straight about that — below is Vivetra next to the one specialist equine platform we have real, dated facts for here, with every Eclipse claim pulled from a sourced record you can check yourself.
Vivetra’s Equine service is $200/mo — the same number for one vet or eight, unlimited staff and fully managed hosting included in that price, not bolted on as a later line item.
Vivetra and Eclipse, side by side
Eclipse’s facts are shown exactly as our sourced dataset records them — and because Eclipse is a rich, multi-feature platform, it carries several distinct sourced claims, each with its own “source” link to the vendor’s own page. Follow any of them to check the record we relied on.
| Platform | Published claims & facts | How it’s licensed / notable |
|---|---|---|
| Vivetra (Equine service) | $200/mo, flat — unlimited doctors and staff, never a per-vet, site-licence, or implementation-fee stack | Fully managed for you: managed hosting included in the price, no server for you to run. One flat monthly rate, the same as the practice grows. |
| Eclipse Veterinary Software source 1 (opens in new tab) source 2 (opens in new tab) source 3 (opens in new tab) |
in use at approximately 100 equine and mixed practices across the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands; built for equine hospitals, ambulatory practices and small-animal referral centres built-in PACS integration — DICOM images are automatically added to the correct animal history and can be viewed on any workstation or mobile Apple device, and routed/pre-fetched to specific vets' workstations, iPads, consulting rooms or operating theatres Eclipse Mobile is designed for ambulatory equine vets specifically, runs on Apple iPad and iPhone, carries complete animal histories and client information on visits, and works offline without a live WiFi/4G/5G connection |
A UK/Ireland/Netherlands equine specialist in around 100 equine and mixed practices — built for equine hospitals, ambulatory work and small-animal referral, with built-in PACS/DICOM that routes images to any workstation or iPad and a dedicated, offline-capable Eclipse Mobile app for ambulatory vets. Deep and Apple-centric where Vivetra is browser-based and species-general. |
About this comparison. This is Vivetra’s own comparison of competing products — we chose the vendor and wrote the framing, so read it as our argument, checked against sourced facts, not a neutral third party’s. Every Eclipse claim above is shown as published by that vendor or the cited record and was verified as of 2026-08-02. Features and positioning move; if a fact here is out of date or wrong, tell us at [email protected] and we correct or remove it within 5 business days. Vivetra’s own price is identical in every supported currency — no conversion, ever — so switching the currency selector only changes the symbol and tax note beside it, never the digits.
On Eclipse, stated plainly
Eclipse is the one specialist equine platform we found real, current, sourced facts for in the UK/Ireland market, so it’s worth being exact about it rather than hand-waving. As verified on 2026-08-02, Eclipse is in use at roughly 100 equine and mixed practices across the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands, and it’s built for equine hospitals, ambulatory practices and small-animal referral centres. It ships built-in PACS/DICOM — images land automatically in the right animal history and can be routed to a specific vet’s workstation, iPad, consulting room or theatre — and a dedicated Eclipse Mobile app for iPad and iPhone that carries full histories offline in the field. That is a deep, specialist, Apple-centric toolset, and we’re not going to pretend otherwise.
What we deliberately do not say: we don’t claim Eclipse is the only equine platform in the UK or Ireland — it’s the only one we could source current, citable facts for, which is a statement about our sourcing, not a ranking of the market. And we don’t put a price on its row, because we found no public figure we were willing to cite. We’d rather state the boring truth than inflate the picture in either direction.
Where Vivetra genuinely falls short today
Hiding a real limitation is worse than not having it. Here are the honest gaps for the Equine service in the UK/Ireland market, stated directly.
- No dedicated native offline field app — Eclipse ships one today. Eclipse Mobile is a native iPad/iPhone app that carries full animal histories offline and works without a live WiFi/4G/5G connection — purpose-built for ambulatory equine vets on visits. Vivetra runs in the browser as a progressive web app: it works on a phone or tablet, but we don’t ship a dedicated native offline field app today. If your day depends on full records in a paddock with no signal, that’s a real difference, and it’s a known, deferred limitation on our side.
- No built-in payment processing. No Vivetra service processes the payments your clients make to your practice — Vivetra builds the estimate and the invoice, but you keep whatever processor you already use to take a card or bank payment. (That’s unrelated to the checkout you’d use to pay your own Vivetra subscription.)
- We’re newer than the established specialist. Eclipse has years of specialist equine track record across UK, Ireland and the Netherlands practices. Vivetra is a newer vendor with less of a track record in the yard — a real consideration we’d rather name than let you find out later.
Questions about this comparison
Why is the price the same whether I have one vet or eight?
Because Vivetra doesn't count vets. Vivetra’s Equine service is one flat monthly rate with unlimited doctors and staff and managed hosting included — so the number you see is the number you pay as the practice grows, whether you’re a single ambulatory vet covering yards in the Home Counties or an eight-vet equine hospital in Ireland. No per-vet rate, no site licence, no implementation fee stacked on top.
Do I have to run my own server at the practice?
No. Vivetra is fully managed for you — the software runs on infrastructure we operate on your behalf. You never touch a server, never patch an OS, never restore a backup yourself. Managed hosting is included, so nobody at the practice ever has to actually operate a box in the office.
What does Vivetra genuinely NOT do that Eclipse does?
The honest one for UK/Ireland equine: Eclipse ships a dedicated native mobile app (Eclipse Mobile) that carries full animal histories offline on an iPad or iPhone and works without a live WiFi/4G/5G connection — purpose-built for ambulatory equine vets out on visits. Vivetra runs in the browser as a progressive web app; it works on a phone or tablet, but we do not ship a dedicated native offline field app today. Eclipse also has years of specialist track record we don’t yet. And there is no built-in payment processing in any Vivetra service — we build the estimate and the invoice, you keep your own processor to take the payment. We’d rather say all of that up front than let you find it after signing.
See it against your own vet count
Pick the Equine service alone or bundle it with the others your practice needs, and see the exact flat monthly number — in your own currency — before you talk to anyone.