ezyVet vs DigiVet
A side-by-side, sourced comparison for South African vet clinics. We don’t pretend ezyVet is bad — it’s a mature global product. We’re a different kind of tool, built for a different problem.
The honest difference in one paragraph
ezyVet is a mature, global veterinary practice management system — cloud-based, owned by IDEXX, with deep clinical workflows, 76 reports, and a long list of US/EU integrations. If you run a US clinic with a CareCredit account and a Dragon Veterinary licence, it works very well.
DigiVet is built for South African vet practices that want their admin automated, not just their clinical records captured. Our differentiator isn’t a longer feature list — it’s where we put the AI: the WhatsApp invoicing flow, the bank statement reconciliation, the voice that drafts your SOAP record AND builds the sale, and the multi-owner billing that drops the right percentage on each co-owner’s phone.
Side-by-side, with sources
WhatsApp invoicing & reminders
One-tap WhatsApp send from every invoice. Appointment confirmations, reminders, and follow-ups all flow through WhatsApp — the channel SA clients actually use.
Email, 2-Way SMS, e-faxing, postcards, customer portal. WhatsApp is not listed under client communication features or in the integrations directory.
Voice AI for clinical capture
Tap the mic, talk through the consult in plain English. The AI drafts the SOAP medical record and pulls every treatment you mention straight onto the linked sale — no separate billing step.
Voice Recognition lets you dictate directly into ezyVet fields, plus integrations with Dragon Veterinary, Talkatoo, and Talkingvet for dictation workflows.
AI medical scribe (live consult → drafted note)
AI Scribe listens to the whole consultation and drafts your medical note in your preferred template. From the same recording it can also generate a referral letter, discharge summary, or treatment plan on demand. English and Afrikaans. Each vet in the clinic picks their own template per note type. Included — no add-on subscription. See AI Scribe →
Built-in dictation is field-level (you dictate into individual ezyVet fields). For full-consult AI scribe behaviour, ezyVet relies on third-party integrations (Talkatoo, Talkingvet, Dragon Veterinary) — each priced separately and configured outside ezyVet.
Hospital ward / inpatient charge capture
Hospital Ward runs the whole inpatient stay: a live ward board, treatment-plan templates, and scheduled treatments, vitals and observations. Tick each treatment off and its items post to the day’s draft invoice — with stock deducted and an AI-drafted discharge summary you review and send. Included — no add-on subscription. See Hospital Ward →
Inpatient and whiteboard workflows are handled by Vet Radar, IDEXX’s dedicated hospital system — a mature product (CRI/fluid-rate and dose calculators, controlled-drug logs) sold and configured as a separate add-on alongside ezyVet.
Multi-owner / co-owner split billing
One consult, one record, one sale — automatically split into N invoices with each co-owner’s percentage and total. Send each invoice via WhatsApp from the statements page individually or in bulk.
Syndicated/Split Billing: associate syndicate members to syndicate groups and configure each member’s share for on-billing. Designed primarily for racing syndicates.
Bank reconciliation
Import a CSV from any SA bank. AI matches each transaction to the right client and tags it high / medium / low confidence. Approve the uncertain ones in seconds.
Not advertised. Their integrations directory lists payment processors (CareCredit, PayJunction, TekCollect) but no bank statement reconciliation tool.
Stock & inventory management
Real-time stock deduction on sale finalisation. Low Stock Alerts report. Unit conversions (buy in bottles, sell in ml). Multi-supplier tracking. Stock Intelligence suite (Top Movers, Seasonal Forecast, Order Now).
Inventory Management module with lot & expiry tracking, inventory transfers, barcodes & scanning.
Reporting
Built-in reports: Inventory Value, Profitability, Profit by Product, Profit by Service, Low Stock Alerts, Stock Movement, Business Analytics, plus Stock Intelligence (Top Movers, Seasonal Forecast, Order Now).
76 unique reports plus automated reporting on finances, clinical history, appointments, stock and customers.
Pricing
R1,699/clinic/month (includes 1 user), plus R999/month per additional user. All priced in ZAR. No minimum contract. No FX exposure.
From $260.50 USD/month on their “Pricing for South Africa” page (priced in USD, not ZAR). Six-month initial term, three-month rolling contract thereafter.
SA support & same time zone
Built, run, and supported from South Africa. Same time zone as your clinic, same banking system, same vet body, same understanding of the day-to-day.
Owned by IDEXX (US-headquartered global company). Support is global, not SA-specific.
ezyVet feature claims sourced from ezyvet.com/features, ezyvet.com/integrations, and ezyvet.com/pricing as of April 2026. If anything is out of date or inaccurate, please let us know and we’ll fix it.
Why a different category, not a longer checklist
Where your clients actually are
SA pet owners live on WhatsApp. Email open rates are well under half. Sending a payment-link invoice via WhatsApp is the single biggest cash-flow change a SA practice can make — and it’s not part of how ezyVet works.
AI for the whole admin layer
Most vet PMS focus on capturing clinical info. DigiVet does that AND uses AI to reconcile bank statements, deduct stock automatically, draft SOAP records by voice, and route split-billing invoices to each co-owner.
Built where you work
Same time zone. Same banking system. Same vet body. ZAR pricing, no FX shock, no minimum-term contracts. When something breaks at 8am on a Tuesday, you talk to someone who gets it.
Switching from ezyVet?
We help you migrate your patient list, client records, and historical sales over in a single day — anything that lives in digital format we’ll bring across. No data loss, no rebuild from scratch.
Common questions
Is DigiVet a good ezyVet alternative for South African vets?
ezyVet is a mature, global veterinary system owned by IDEXX, with deep clinical workflows. DigiVet is built for South African practices that want their admin automated — WhatsApp invoicing, bank reconciliation, voice-to-sale AI, and ZAR pricing with no USD invoices.
How does DigiVet pricing compare to ezyVet?
DigiVet is R1,699 per clinic per month (includes one user), plus R999 per month for each additional user, billed in rand with no exchange-rate surprises. There is a 14-day free trial and free data migration.
Can I migrate from ezyVet to DigiVet?
Yes. DigiVet imports your existing clients, patients, products, services, medical records, and sales history at no extra cost.
Does DigiVet handle multi-owner billing for equine and farm practices?
Yes. DigiVet splits a single sale into separate invoices per owner, each with the right ownership percentage — built for equine, mixed, and farm practices where patients are co-owned.
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