Aesthetidocs reviews and switching: the migration path, tested

Most “alternative to X” pages are written from the outside. This one is closer to the metal: we have built and tested the assisted migration from Aesthetidocs to AesthetiClinic with a working clinic, including the parts that do not come out of a single export button. So rather than speculate about what leaving Aesthetidocs involves, we can describe it, including where it needs a careful hand.

Accurate as of July 2026; if Aesthetidocs changes, this page changes.

What Aesthetidocs is

Aesthetidocs is a bespoke UK aesthetics booking and documentation app. Bespoke is the right word: it was built for this industry specifically, not adapted from general salon software, and clinics that chose it did so for sound reasons. It handles booking and treatment documentation in one place, and for many practitioners it does the day-to-day job perfectly well.

The considerations that bring clinics to this page are usually about growth (more practitioners, more structure around access and auditing) or about data: understanding exactly what they could take with them if they ever moved.

Aesthetidocs pricing explained

Clinics researching Aesthetidocs often want the price in plain terms before they commit or move. Aesthetidocs does not publish a standard price list we can quote here. Rather than guess, we will be plain about our own side: AesthetiClinic is £25 plus VAT per practitioner per month for the whole platform, monthly rolling, with a 14-day free trial, and deposits run through your own Stripe account at 0% commission to us. The full detail is on the pricing page. If price is the reason you are looking, ask Aesthetidocs for their current figure and put it next to ours.

What we learned building the migration

Two facts shape any move away from Aesthetidocs, and both are simply how the product works rather than criticisms of it:

• Patients and waitlists export as CSV. This part is straightforward. The structured data comes out cleanly and imports cleanly.
• No single-button bulk export of consent documents or photos in the migration we ran. In the assisted migration we built and tested (July 2026), consent documents and photos did not come out through one bulk-export button; recovering them meant working through the records systematically with legitimate access to the account. Check the current options with Aesthetidocs directly.

That second point is where most clinics would stall on their own. It is also exactly the work we have built and tested with a working clinic, so we know how long it takes, where the edge cases are, and how to verify nothing is left behind. Patients, signed consent documents and clinical photos all come across through the assisted route, which is precisely why we can be specific about where the careful-hand work sits.

It also shaped our own product. AesthetiClinic includes a one-click full data export at any time: patients, consent records with signatures, photos, notes and bookings, with no exit fee. Having built that migration path the hard way, we made sure nobody would ever need one to leave us.

Capability comparison

Capability	Aesthetidocs	AesthetiClinic
Built for UK aesthetics	Yes, bespoke booking and documentation app	Yes, built hands-on with a working UK clinic
Patient and waitlist export	CSV	Included in one-click full export
Bulk export of consent documents and photos	No single-button bulk export in our tested migration (July 2026); recovered via assisted authenticated migration	One click, any time, no exit fee
Consent signing	Varies	E-signed on the patient’s own phone via a secure tokenised link
Multi-practitioner diary	Varies	Shifts, time off, database-level double-booking protection
Role-based access and audit trail	Not published	Both included, with a full who, what, when log
Pricing	Not published	£25 + VAT per practitioner/month, whole platform, no booking fees, monthly rolling
Deposits	Varies	Via your own Stripe account, 0% commission to us

Where a row says “Not published” or “Varies”, Aesthetidocs does not publish the detail in a form we can verify, and we will not guess.

What you gain on the other side

The clinic we worked with landed on a system with consent forms and medical histories e-signed on the patient’s own phone (secure tokenised link, no app, no account), treatment-specific editable templates with versioning (see the templates page), treatment records with batch numbers and dose, before and after photos on the patient record, and records structured for England’s 2026 licensing scheme. The diary enforces practitioner shifts and time off with double-booking protection at database level, and the booking page runs under the clinic’s own brand with deposits into the clinic’s own Stripe account. The full list is on the features page, and pricing (£25 plus VAT per practitioner, everything included) is on the pricing page.

Common questions

Can I move my data off Aesthetidocs?

Yes, with a caveat we have tested first-hand. Patients and waitlists export cleanly as CSV. Consent documents and photos do not come out through a single bulk-export button; recovering them takes an assisted, authenticated migration, which is exactly the work we have built and tested with a working clinic. So the data can move, but the second part needs a careful hand rather than a one-click download.

How does AesthetiClinic compare with Aesthetidocs?

Both are built for UK aesthetics. The differences clinics move for are usually structure and portability: AesthetiClinic adds multi-practitioner shifts with database-level double-booking protection, role-based access with a full audit trail, and a one-click full export at any time with no exit fee, at a single published price of £25 plus VAT per practitioner.

Is switching from Aesthetidocs difficult?

Less than the anxiety suggests, because the path is mapped: CSV import for patients and waitlists, an assisted authenticated migration for consent documents and photos, then template rebuilding, diary setup and a parallel-running period before cutover, with verification at each step. The 14-day trial lets you inspect the destination before any data moves.

Stay with Aesthetidocs if

• It already covers your workflow and you trust it. A bespoke aesthetics tool doing its job is not a problem to fix. Migration costs attention, and attention is finite.
• You are a small practice with no near-term plans to grow the team. The multi-practitioner structure we lead with may be tomorrow’s problem, not today’s.
• Your relationship with the product is good. Bespoke software often comes with a close line to the people behind it, and that responsiveness is worth something.
• You are mid-busy-season. Even a well-run migration deserves a quiet fortnight. Wait for one.

How switching works

Because we have built and tested this migration path, it is mapped: CSV import for patients and waitlists, an assisted authenticated migration for consent documents and photos, then template rebuilding, diary setup and a parallel-running period before cutover, with verification at each step. A migration is also the cheapest moment to close the gaps in your record-keeping, so it is worth reading the licensing-ready records checklist before you cut over. The general process is on the switching page, and the 14-day free trial (monthly rolling, cancel any time, UK-based support) lets you inspect the destination before any data moves. If you are comparing more broadly, our ANS and Pabau pages cover the other common contenders, and the best aesthetic clinic software guide lays every option out side by side.