Clinicminds and Pabau both offer online booking, medical records and invoicing. The difference is focus. Pabau is a generalist, built for more than 30 types of practice, from physiotherapy to mental health. Clinicminds is the operating system for aesthetic clinics: a specialist for aesthetic medicine and skin care, with a strong clinical core connected to the tools you choose, instead of forcing everything into one platform. For an aesthetic clinic, that means software that fits your treatments, your team and the way you grow.
| Clinicminds | Pabau | |
|---|---|---|
| Built specifically for aesthetic clinics and skin therapy | ✓ | ✕One of more than 30 specialties |
| Reception and assistants free of charge | ✓ | ✕Everyone who logs in counts as a user |
| One surcharge for all locations | ✓ | ✕Priced per location, except Enterprise |
| Never committed for longer than a year | ✓Monthly or yearly | ✕Prepaid terms of up to 36 months |
| One clear starting price | ✓From €160 per month | ✕Different amounts on different Pabau pages |
| Software in 12 languages, including Dutch | ✓ | ✕Primarily English |
| AI medical scribe included | ✓Quinn | ✓Pabau Scribe, in the standard plan |
| Online payments, deposits and payment links | ✓Through Stripe | ✓ |
| Public status page | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linked card terminal at the desk | ✕Currently not available | ✓ |
Details and sources for each point are in the full comparison below. Want to see it for yourself? Get a demo.
| Topic | Clinicminds | Pabau |
|---|---|---|
| Focus and approach | ||
| Built for | Medical aesthetic clinics, skin therapy practices and clinics that combine medical and beauty treatments | More than 30 specialties, including medical aesthetics, physiotherapy, women’s and men’s health, psychiatry, fertility and coachingsource |
| Approach | The clinic’s operating system, with a clinical core connected to the tools the clinic chooses: Stripe, Mailchimp, Google, Meta, HubSpot, Klaviyo, ActiveCampaign, Pipedrive and more, some through Zapier. Integrations are included in the subscription (third-party tools have their own costs); three APIs are paid add-ons. | An all-in-one platform with integrations, an app marketplace and API; optional paid add-ons Marketing Plus, Care Plus, Insights Plus and Engage Plussource |
| Pricing and contract | ||
| Published prices | From €160 per month, on the pricing page; a quote for your team after a demo | Different amounts on different Pabau pages: from $104 per month for the Solo plan according to the pricing page, “ab ca. 65 $/Monat” on its German blog and “62 $/mois” on its French blog. Larger plans are priced after a demo call.pricing page, German blog, French blog |
| Who counts as a paying user | Practitioners. Beauty therapists have a lower rate. Reception, assistants and accounting are free. | Anyone who logs in to manage appointments, access patient records or perform clinical or administrative tasks, including practitioners, receptionists and clinic managerssource |
| Multiple locations | One fixed surcharge, whatever the number of locations | Pricing applies per location, except on the Enterprise plansource |
| Contract and renewal | Monthly with one month’s notice, or yearly with a 10% discount, cancellable up to one month before the end of the term. Both renew automatically; we always announce yearly subscription renewals clearly in advance. | Monthly (30 days’ notice), or prepaid for 12, 24 or 36 months (10% to 20% discount). Prepaid terms cannot be ended early after the 30-day guarantee for new customers, and renew automatically for the same term unless cancelled in writing at least 30 days before the end.terms, art. 1.1, 1.5, 1.6 and 3.1 |
| Product | ||
| AI medical scribe | Quinn, currently included in every subscription at no extra cost | Pabau Scribe, included in the standard plan; unlimited and free use with the optional Care Plus add-on, otherwise AI use costs creditssource, terms, art. 3.7 |
| Medical records | Customisable treatment records, consent forms (also signed at home), before-and-after photos, treatment drawings, batch numbers, complication registration | Structured charting, smart medical forms and a form builder, consent, photos, face mapping, ePrescribe and labssource, source |
| Stock and reporting | Stock management, end-of-day cash overview per payment method, financial reports, real-time revenue monitor | Inventory and 40+ reportssource |
| Payments | Online payments, deposits and payment links through Stripe. At the desk, you record the payment method for each payment and the end-of-day cash overview totals it; there is currently no linked card terminal. | Online payments, payment links and deposits, plus point of sale with card terminalssource |
| Email and marketing | 40+ automated messages; email campaigns in the tool you choose, through Mailchimp, Klaviyo, ActiveCampaign or HubSpot | Built-in email campaignssource |
| Interface languages | 12 languages, including Dutch | Primarily English, with Dutch documentation and support, according to Pabau’s Dutch blogsource |
| Reliability and switching | ||
| System status | Public status page with uptime per component (clinicminds-status.com) | Public status page per region, with uptime per component and incident historypabau.instatus.com |
| Switching | Basic patient data free of charge; full migration usually 2 to 6 weeks; no setup costs | A dedicated onboarding team helps with data migration and setting up the systemsource |
Pabau information checked on pabau.com on 6 November 2026. Pabau publishes prices in US dollars, Clinicminds in euros.
Pabau writes
Clinicminds is “typically arranged by quote”. Pabau comparison page, checked 6 November 2026.
The facts
Our starting price is €160 per month, listed on our pricing page, along with who you pay for and which extras are paid. Your exact price depends on the number of practitioners and locations, and we confirm it in a quote after a demo. Pabau itself names different starting amounts depending on the page: $104, about $65 or $62 per month (see the table above).
Pabau writes
Pabau’s Dutch blog names Mailchimp and Labplusarts, and advises checking whether your accounting and payment provider connect. Source.
The facts
Clinicminds connects to Stripe, Mailchimp, Sylton Observ, Labplusarts, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Ads and Meta conversion tracking, and syncs calendars with Google, iCloud and Outlook. Through connections, some via Zapier, it also works with HubSpot, Klaviyo, ActiveCampaign, Pipedrive and other tools, plus three APIs. There is no direct link to accounting packages: your accountant reads the figures through our detailed financial exports in CSV or Excel, which support general ledger accounts and work with any modern accounting package. A direct connection is possible through Zapier or our API. The full list is on our integrations page.
Pabau writes
Clinics using Clinicminds may need separate solutions for marketing, point of sale, stock and reporting. Pabau comparison page.
The facts
Not for stock and reporting. Clinicminds includes stock management, an end-of-day cash overview per payment method, financial reports and a real-time revenue monitor. For marketing, Clinicminds sends 40+ automated messages itself and connects to the email tool you prefer. That is a deliberate choice: you keep working with the tools that suit your clinic, and Clinicminds stays the operating system at the heart of it.
Pabau writes
Clinicminds is popular with smaller aesthetic clinics in the Netherlands. Pabau’s Dutch blog.
The facts
No. Clinicminds is used by many hundreds of clinics in 25 countries and is available in 12 languages. It supports multi-location clinics and international clinic groups.
Pabau writes
Costs can rise unpredictably when modules are added. Pabau’s Dutch blog.
The facts
At Clinicminds, you pay per practitioner, support staff are free and extra locations have one fixed surcharge. The few paid extras are listed on our pricing page: SMS bundles, the quality management system (QMS), APIs and a small fee per online payment.
Pabau writes
Practices with multiple locations or practitioners experience limitations in managing capacity, permissions and workflows. Pabau’s Dutch blog.
The facts
Yes. Practitioners are linked to the locations where they work, with their working hours per location, and treatments are linked to each location, so nothing has to be set up twice. Clinic groups work in one system.
Take a clinic with 2 doctors, 1 assistant, 1 beauty therapist and 3 receptionists: 7 people who all work in the software.
| Clinicminds | Pabau | |
|---|---|---|
| Count as paying users | 32 practitioners and 1 beauty therapist (lower rate) | 7Everyone who logs in |
| Free | 4: the assistant and 3 receptionists | None |
| Plan and price | From €160 per month for one practitioner; this team needs 2 practitioner licences and 1 beauty licence (see pricing page) | Group plan (6 to 15 users), priced per location; price after a demo call |
Your exact price depends on your team and locations. Ask both suppliers for a quote based on the same team.
Free
Names, contact details and patient information come over free of charge.
2 to 6 weeks
Patients, records, treatments, appointments, photos and history.
No setup costs
Training and help setting up your account are part of your subscription.
Clinics have switched from Pabau to Clinicminds before. Read how switching works.
Pabau serves more than 30 specialties. Clinicminds is built only for aesthetic medicine, skin therapy and clinics that also offer beauty treatments, and was founded by a cosmetic physician and an IT entrepreneur.
What a clinic needs changes over time. We don’t ask you to do everything inside one system. Clinicminds holds your patients, records, agenda and payments, and connects to the software that works best for you today, and to something else tomorrow if that suits you better.
You commit for a month or a year, never longer. If you ever leave, you can request a full export of your data free of charge.
99.997% overall uptime over the 90 days to 6 November 2026, measured by automated external checks on our public status page. All data is stored in the EU, on ISO 27001-certified servers.
Customisable treatment records, consent forms and treatment drawings, before-and-after photos to record and compare results, with batch numbers and complication registration built in.
Half of all questions get a first reply from our support team within 30 minutes, and 97% within 8 hours (3,752 conversations between 1 November 2025 and 2 November 2026).
You pay per practitioner. Reception and assistants are free, and extra locations have one fixed surcharge.
A demo shows how Clinicminds fits your clinic, your team and your workflows.
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