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EzyConn
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3 processes for healthcare · 1 complete

Appointment scheduling for physio, dietetics and podiatry —front-desk work, and it asks nothing about anybody’s health.

EzyConn books the appointment a patient already knows they want, moves it or cancels it when they cannot make it, and sorts appointments, billing and records enquiries to the right desk with the contact details already taken.

The problem

What a clinic front desk spends its day on

Four situations that need answering and need no judgement at all. Every one of them is somebody being interrupted, or a customer going somewhere else.

  1. 01

    One person and a switchboard

    The calls that need no judgement at all — book a follow-up, move Tuesday, who do I ask about an invoice — take most of the day, and they arrive while somebody is being checked in.

  2. 02

    A clinician paid to sit still

    A 30-minute follow-up slot held for somebody who does not arrive is gone. It is only re-sellable if the cancellation lands early enough for the desk to fill it, and cancellations tend to arrive after hours.

  3. 03

    Three inboxes wearing a coat

    Appointments, billing and insurance, and records all arrive at one address. A records request sits behind forty appointment questions, and the patient sends a second email into the same silence.

  4. 04

    The question software must not ask

    A receptionist can say "what is it for?". Software cannot — so none of these three processes asks it. Not when booking, and not when cancelling, where the reason is more often than not a clinical fact.

An empty clinic waiting area, reception counter along one wall and a row of blue chairs opposite

Real enquiries

What arrives, and what happens to it.

Each of these is administrative on its face, and the processes are built so that none of them can drift into anything else.

  • Can I book a physio follow-up for next week?

    Your own 30-minute follow-up, booked on your clock

  • I've never been to the clinic before — how do I book the first appointment?

    Your own initial assessment length, offered and booked

  • I can't make Tuesday. Can I move it?

    Appointment found, moved, no reason asked for

  • Who do I speak to about an invoice from March?

    Named for billing and insurance, passed across

  • I need a copy of my notes for my insurer.

    Named for records, passed across with contact details

The processes

Three processes, built for healthcare.

Each one is published with its status. Complete means every step runs. Available with a limit means it runs and something named is missing — and the name of the missing thing is on this page and on the process page.

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The outcome

What a finished job looks like.

An appointment on the clinic’s own clock at the clinic’s own length — or an enquiry that reaches the right desk with a name, a number and an email attached.

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Appointment bookedappointment scheduling

These are the starting labels and lengths. You replace all of them with your own, and the times offered are computed from yours.

Physiotherapy — initial assessment
45 min
Physiotherapy — follow-up
30 min
Dietetics consultation
45 min

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Enquiry captured and routed

Nothing is booked, on purpose. A person picks the conversation up already knowing which of these it is, who is asking and how to reach them.

  • the appointments team
  • the billing and insurance team
  • the medical records team

It carries the name, the contact details, which published appointment they chose, and when suits them. It carries nothing about their health, because no question in any of the three processes asks about it.

What you configure.

Your opening hours, your clock, and your own published appointment types with their real lengths and prices. Nothing clinical is configured, because nothing clinical happens.

  • Your opening hours

  • Your timezone

  • Your services, their length and their price

  • Your price list

Without opening hours and a timezone, a booking process offers nothing and hands every customer to a person. That is deliberate — an appointment at a time you are shut is worse than no appointment.

The limits

What EzyConn will not do for healthcare.

Every one of these is a boundary the product will not cross, not a feature waiting on a release.

Reception work only — scheduling and admin. No clinical questions, no triage, no emergencies.

  • No clinical question is asked, and none is answered

    It never presents itself as a clinician and never decides what a person needs. It takes the appointment they name. If a patient volunteers something clinical mid-conversation, nothing inside a process refuses it — the turn falls through to the general assistant, which answers from the content you trained it on. Publish administrative content only.

  • The "when suits" question carries no urgent option, on purpose

    It is a scheduling preference and it is worded to stay one: the next appointment you have, a particular day, or flexible. There is no emergency and no urgent choice, because those words invite a judgement about somebody’s condition that the product is not allowed to make.

  • Insurance and cost are never touched

    There is no payer or clearinghouse connector, no coverage record and no patient-cost calculation in the product. "Am I covered?" and "what will this cost me?" are never answered, because a wrong yes produces a bill nobody agreed to.

  • It never asks why

    A cancellation reason is a clinical fact more often than not, the note field on an appointment is plain unencrypted text, and there is no consent record — so the question is not asked at all rather than asked and thrown away.

  • No named clinician, and no course of sessions

    There is one diary for the practice and no per-clinician calendar, so "with Sarah" is never offered. And one appointment is booked per conversation — a course of six sessions is six separate conversations, because an appointment has no series or recurrence.

  • Nothing reaches a patient-record system

    There is no connector to any patient-record, practice-management or clinical system — not built, not planned. The words EHR, PMS, HIPAA and BAA appear on this page only in this sentence, saying that none of them applies. Appointments leave through Zapier or your own signed webhook.

  • The team is named to the patient, not delivered to a queue

    A routed enquiry tells the patient which desk picks it up and writes that on the conversation. There are no teams or queues in the product to deliver it into, so whoever picks the conversation up sees which desk it was meant for.

  • Identification is not verification

    Moving or cancelling is matched on a name, an email and a phone number typed into an anonymous chat window — scoped to your clinic, refusing to guess between two matches, and telling somebody who gets it wrong nothing at all. It is still two facts a stranger could know.

  • No calendar sync, of any kind

    Not Google Calendar, not Outlook, not Calendly. Availability is worked out only from appointments EzyConn made itself, so a time you blocked out in your own calendar is still offered to a customer.

  • No system connectors

    There is no customer-record, scheduling-system, order or field-service connector in the product. Everything that leaves does so through Zapier or a signed webhook to your own endpoint.

  • The confirmation is an email, never a text message

    No process sends SMS. The confirmation email is best-effort: if the queue behind it is down, a real appointment can be made without the email arriving. A cancellation sends the customer nothing at all — the chat window is their only confirmation.

  • Nothing is paid for in the conversation

    There is no payment step anywhere in a process. No deposit, no card, no voucher, no balance.

  • A service area is a list of postcodes, not a radius

    You give a list of postcodes or a prefix to match on, for one country. A radius is refused outright, and so is covering everywhere.

Every limit these three processes publish

Written by the people who built them, carried onto this page unedited, and shown in full on each process page.

  • The bot never presents itself as a clinician, never gives clinical advice, and never decides what a person needs.
  • A confirmation EMAIL is sent.
  • If a visitor volunteers something clinical mid-flow, the turn is classified as an aside and falls through to the normal assistant.
  • No individual member of staff is chosen.
  • The 'when suits' question is a SCHEDULING preference and is worded to stay one.
  • A cancellation sends the customer NOTHING.
  • IDENTIFICATION IS NOT AUTHENTICATION.
  • A cancelled appointment is not RE-booked.
  • The team is NAMED, not ASSIGNED.
  • No clinical question is asked and none is answered.

Channels

Where your customers already are.

Clinics are reached by phone first. The same agent answers there and on everything else.

  • Your phone line

    The call that arrives while the desk is checking somebody in, answered on your own Twilio number.

    You connect your own Twilio number. Inbound only — EzyConn does not make outbound calls.

  • Your website

    The booking and the cancellation made outside opening hours, which is when most of them happen.

  • Email

    Records requests and billing questions, sorted at the door rather than at the bottom of a shared inbox.

  • Slack

    Where the desk answers a handed-over conversation without another console.

  • WhatsApp

    Two-way messaging for clinics whose patients already use it, with human takeover.

EzyConn has no CRM, dealer-management, practice-management, EHR, order-management or field-service connector, and it does not sync with Google Calendar, Outlook or Calendly. Availability is worked out from bookings EzyConn made itself. Everything else leaves through Zapier or a webhook.

The product turns on at Starter.

The booking and routing processes, the phone line and custom actions turn on at Starter. The free plan answers questions only. Every plan has a published seat count and a published message allowance — no plan on this site is described as unlimited.

See what each plan includes

Questions

What healthcare businesses ask first.

Will it ask a patient what is wrong with them?
Not once, in any of the three processes. It asks which of your published appointments they want and when suits. It does not ask why they are booking, and it does not ask why they are cancelling.
Can a patient book with a named clinician?
No. There is one diary for the practice and no per-person calendar in the product, so an appointment names nobody. "With Sarah" is never offered because it could not be honoured.
Can it tell somebody whether they are covered?
No. There is no insurance, payer or coverage data in the product and no patient-cost calculation, so neither "am I covered?" nor "what will it cost me?" is ever answered. Both go to your billing and insurance desk with the contact details already taken.
Will bookings reach our patient-record system?
No. There is no connector to any patient-record, practice-management or clinical system, and none is declared as coming. Appointments live in EzyConn and leave through Zapier or a signed webhook.
Can it book a course of six sessions?
No. One appointment is created per conversation, because an appointment has no series, recurrence or parent. A course is six separate conversations, and no wording anywhere suggests otherwise.
What happens if a patient types something clinical?
The turn is treated as an aside and falls through to the general assistant, which answers from the content you trained it on. Nothing inside a process refuses it. The honest instruction is: train it on administrative content only, keep clinical material off it, and let a person handle anything else — do not rely on the software to catch it.