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Medi-Aesthetic Clinic Software and the Privacy Act: How Phorest Handles Consent Forms, Photos, and Treatment Documentation

Phorest is medi-aesthetic clinic software that provides the tools and safeguards to help Australian clinics meet their obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), tying digital consent forms, before-and-after photos, and multi-session treatment plans directly to each client’s chart. It’s built for the documentation independent and multi-provider medi-aesthetic clinics handle … Continued

Aesthetic Clinic Analytics and AI Features: The KPIs to Track and the Tools That Save Your Team Time

Growing aesthetic clinics run on two things: decision-grade analytics that show what’s actually driving the business like retention, lifetime value, utilisation, cancellations, service profitability, and marketing attribution and tools that free up time to act on it. Phorest supports both: a full reporting suite, filterable by staff, branch, and date, plus smart KPI reports that … Continued

How Salon Software Increases Profit: 6 Features Premium Salons Use to Grow Revenue and Retention

Salon software increases profit primarily by protecting revenue that would otherwise leak away through no-shows, forgotten rebookings, manual admin, and clients who quietly stop coming back. The premium salons that grow fastest use their software for automated rebooking, deposit protection, targeted marketing, integrated payments, and staff performance tracking and not just for holding a calendar. … Continued

“The Sky’s the Limit”: An Elly Lukas Journey to the Phorest Summit

“Oh my god, this is actually real life and this is actually happening to me.” That was Josephine Muscat’s reaction to being named one of the recipients of the Innovation in Technology Award, recognising the way she embraced Phorest’s software throughout her beauty therapy studies.  At the end of 2025, in Melbourne, Australia, two Elly … Continued

The Perfectly Packed Calendar: A Day Inside Aesthetic Clinic Scheduling Software

The single biggest lever for aesthetic clinic growth isn’t more ad spend or a fuller waiting room. It’s a scheduling system that fills, protects, and optimises every slot before revenue slips through the gaps. Ask an aesthetic clinic owner what actually keeps them up at night, and it’s rarely a client complaint. It’s the calendar: … Continued

Aesthetic Clinic Software for Multi-Location Growth: A Buyer’s Comparison Guide

Multi-location aesthetic clinics need software that centralises reporting, staff performance, inventory, and marketing across every site in one system. The right platform lets an owner or operations director see revenue, retention, and provider performance across the whole group from a single dashboard, while still supporting location-specific scheduling, compliance, and clinical workflows. At a glance: This … Continued

When Does an Aesthetic Clinic Need More Than Basic Booking Software?

An aesthetic clinic needs more than basic booking software once operational complexity outpaces the calendar, typically, when it adds a second or third practitioner, opens a second location, widens its treatment menu, or starts spending real money on marketing it needs to measure. Revenue growth alone isn’t the trigger. Complexity is. That distinction matters, because … Continued

Aesthetic Clinic Marketing Automation: The 6 Workflows That Fill Your Calendar Automatically

In short: Aesthetic clinic marketing automation uses software to trigger client communications automatically based on booking behaviour like a lapsed visit, a completed treatment, or an upcoming appointment. The six workflows that return the most revenue are lapsed-client win-back, predictive rebooking, no-show prevention, post-treatment aftercare, new lead follow-up, and VIP or membership recognition. The ones … Continued

Advanced Aesthetic Clinic Scheduling: The Three Numbers That Show What Your Calendar Is Costing You

An aesthetic clinic sells provider hours in treatment rooms, and both are perishable. An hour that goes unsold at 2pm on Tuesday cannot be sold later. Across the aesthetics industry, that lost capacity is becoming an increasingly costly challenge. Research highlighted by Professional Beauty found that cancellations and no-shows continue to cause significant income loss … Continued