Features

Appointments

Schedule, manage and optimise every clinic — smart allocation, direct booking, capacity planning, and invoicing that keeps pace with the diary.

Clinic · Tue 14 Oct
Optimised
09:00Acme · Audiometry · S. Patel
09:30Acme · Audiometry · S. Patel
10:00Open slot

Same clinician as last time, pulled from the waitlist into 10:00 — and the draft invoice is already raised.

Feature 01

Smart scheduling

Appointments allocated automatically based on clinician availability and continuity of care — the right clinician, without the back-and-forth.

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Clinic · Tue 14 Oct
Optimised
  • 09:00Atlas · Audiometry
  • 09:30Atlas · Audiometry
  • 10:00Open slot

Pull a waitlisted Atlas audiometry into 10:00 to fill the clinic.

Feature 02

Smart bookings

Clients and employees book directly into available slots, with configurable restrictions — so the diary fills itself while staying under your control.

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Book an appointment
Direct booking

Tuesday 14 Oct · Audiometry

09:0009:3010:0010:3011:0011:30

Your restrictions applied — surveillance slots only, 14 days ahead.

Feature 03

Clinic planner

Auto-calculate clinic capacity from your service types and employee numbers — so clinics are built to demand, not guesswork.

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Clinic planner · November
Auto-calculated
Audiometry · 38 employees19 × 20 min
Spirometry · 24 employees12 × 25 min
Clinic days needed2.5
Feature 04

Invoicing

Draft invoices generated automatically once appointments are scheduled, so billing keeps pace with delivery.

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Invoice · draft
Auto-drafted

Line items

Audiometry assessment£95.00
Clinic attendance£40.00
Total£135.00

Drafted the moment the appointment was scheduled.

In practice

A diary built by email, or a clinic that fills itself

Smart scheduling and direct booking turn appointment-making from a week of back-and-forth into something that happens on its own — inside rules you set.

By email

“Could J. Donnelly do Tuesday at 10?” — “He can’t, what else is there?” “Let me check and get back to you.”
  • Days of back-and-forth per booking
  • Gaps nobody notices until the day
  • Whoever's free, not whoever knows the case

Booked through Ally

J. Donnelly books directly into Tuesday 10:00 — the same clinician as last time, inside the restrictions you configured. The draft invoice is raised the moment the booking lands.
  • Booked direct into available slots
  • Continuity of care preserved
  • Invoice drafted on scheduling
The difference

What it changes

Illustrative outcomes teams see when this part of Ally is doing the work.

  1. Zeroback-and-forth — bookings land in available slots
  2. Minutesto plan a clinic from service types and headcount
  3. Everyscheduled appointment gets a draft invoice automatically

Illustrative figures based on typical time savings; actual results vary by workflow and case mix.

FAQ

Appointments questions

Common questions about this part of Ally. Can't find what you're looking for? Book a demo and ask us directly.

It allocates each appointment from clinician availability and continuity of care — so where someone has been seen before, they see the same clinician again where possible. Your team can always review and override the allocation.

Yes. Smart bookings work within restrictions you configure — which services, which slots, how far ahead, and who can book them — so direct booking fills the diary without taking it out of your hands.

From your service types and employee numbers. It works out how many appointments of each type a clinic can hold and how many are needed — so a clinic is sized to demand before anyone starts placing bookings by hand.

Automatically, once an appointment is scheduled. The draft is what the client will review — billing keeps pace with the diary without losing control.

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