Setting up a practice
Everything between finishing your training and taking a booking properly.
Training teaches the treatment and skips the business. The decisions that actually determine whether a practice works are made in the first few months: where you treat, what you charge, what cover you hold, and whether your consent and records are in place before the first client rather than after the first problem.
These guides cover that ground in roughly the order you meet it, and are written to be acted on rather than read.
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Switching Aesthetic Clinic Software: The Data Migration Guide
A complete migration moves client profiles, appointment history, treatment notes, consent forms, clinical photographs and your service menu. Export and open your data before giving notice, run the old system read-only for no more than a fortnight, and confirm photographs are included, because they are the most commonly omitted item.
Read the guideHow to Become an Aesthetic Practitioner in the UK
There is no single mandatory route into UK aesthetics. Most practitioners come in through an existing healthcare registration, or train through accredited courses as a non-medic. You will need injectable training delivered by a healthcare professional, indemnity insurance, a prescriber relationship for prescription-only medicines, and compliant record keeping before your first client.
Read the guideStarting an Aesthetic Business: The Side Training Skips
Training teaches the treatment, not the business. Before your first client you need a decision about where you work, a price list built for the business you want rather than the one you fear, indemnity cover, compliant consent and records, and a way to take deposits. Early clients are proof rather than marketing.
Read the guideStop taking aesthetic bookings through DMs: here's what to do instead
Taking bookings through DMs costs you your evenings, loses the audit trail, and leaves consent and health history uncollected until the client is already in the chair. Move to a booking page with deposits and automatic forms, then reply to DMs with the link. Most clinics complete the switch inside a week.
Read the guideHow to get your own branded booking page as a solo aesthetic practitioner
A branded booking page runs on your own domain and carries your clinic name, colours and treatment language rather than a platform's. It matters because clients judge credibility in seconds, and a generic booking link suggests you are borrowing infrastructure. Expect a subscription rather than a one-off design fee.
Read the guideHow to set up online booking for your aesthetic clinic in under an hour
You can have online booking live in about an hour. Set up three things: your service list with durations and prices, your working hours, and a deposit rule. Everything else, including packages, marketing and waitlists, can be added later without redoing the setup. Start narrow and expand once bookings arrive.
Read the guideWhy solo aesthetic practitioners need more than a booking link in their bio
A booking link takes appointments; it does not run a practice. Solo aesthetic practitioners also need consent and health-history forms attached to the service, deposits, client records with batch tracking, and rebooking automations. Without those, the admin the link was meant to remove simply moves somewhere else in the week.
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