Comparing SimplePractice features by plan

SimplePractice offers 3 subscription plans with different features and tools. This guide helps you compare what’s included with each plan so you can choose the option that best supports your practice.

• Starter
  • For the practice who needs the basics. Starts at $49/month.
• Essential
  • For the practice growing your caseload and wanting to reduce busy work. Starts at $79/month.
• Plus
  • For the practice looking to simplify admin work and streamline their business. Starts at $99/month.

Below, we'll cover:

• Features by plan
• FAQs

Note: You can update your plan at any time at Settings > Practice > Plan info. To learn how, see Managing your plan and subscription billing.

Features by plan

The following features are available based on your SimplePractice plan.

Telehealth

You can meet clients for HIPAA compliant online sessions using Telehealth by SimplePractice, with no limits on session length or number of appointments. Our integrated telehealth features includes waiting rooms, screen-sharing, and interactive whiteboards.

To learn more, see Getting started with Telehealth.

Secure Messaging

With Secure Messaging, you can communicate with clients, their contacts, and your team members, while maintaining HIPAA compliance. You can also set up an automatic Away message to let clients know when you’re unavailable.

To learn more, see Getting started with Secure Messaging.

Client announcements

Client announcements allow you to send read-only messages to all of your clients at once.

For more information, see Creating client announcements.

Team members

The option to add team members to your account is exclusive to the Plus plan.

With the Plus plan, you can add an unlimited number of non-clinician team members, such as practice schedulers, practice billers, and supervisors, at no additional cost. You can also add:

• Practice managers for an additional $39/month per person
• Additional clinicians, with pricing based on the total number of clinicians in your practice:
  • 2-5 clinicians: $74/month per clinician
  • 6-15 clinicians: $72/month per clinician
  • 16 or more clinicians: $69/month per clinician

For more information, see Adding and managing team members.

Group appointments

If you see multiple clients at the same time, you can create a group appointment with up to 15 clients. Group appointments make it easier to share appointment-related information while keeping notes and billing details associated with each individual client.

The Plus plan includes group appointments for in-person sessions and telehealth.

To learn more, see Setting up group appointments.

Appointment reminders

You can send text, email, or voice reminders to clients for upcoming appointments. Clients can also confirm or cancel appointments through text reminders, which will automatically update the appointment in your SimplePractice calendar.

Note: Email, voice, and text templates and reminders aren’t customizable for trial accounts. To customize templates and reminders during your trial, add a payment method at Settings > Practice > Plan info.

For more information, see Setting up appointment and time of scheduling reminders.

Online appointment requests

Clients can request appointments online through SimplePractice. You can set your availability, services, and other settings that determine when and how clients can request appointments.

To learn more, see Enabling online appointment requests.

Appointment request widget

You can embed the appointment request widget on an external website to allow potential clients to request appointments.

To learn more, see Adding the appointment request widget to your website.

Professional Website and Therapy Finder

The Professional Website and Therapy Finder Directory can help you connect with potential clients. You can build an accessible, modern website and increase visibility by listing your practice in Therapy Finder.

For more information, see Setting up your Professional Website and Getting started with Therapy Finder.

Calendar sync

Calendar sync lets you view your SimplePractice appointments and events on a personal calendar. Basic calendar sync is available with Apple Calendar, Microsoft 365 Outlook Calendar, and Google Calendar, while advanced calendar sync is available with Google Calendar only.

For more information, see Getting started with calendar sync.

Advanced calendar filters

Advanced calendar filters make it easier to find appointments when you have multiple clinicians, locations, or services.

To learn more, see Using filters to view your calendar.

Color coding

By default, appointment colors on the calendar reflect appointment status. On the Plus plan, you can also use colors to indicate the clinician or service code.

To learn more, see Using calendar color coding filters.

Out of office calendar scheduling

You can add out of office (OOO) blocks to your SimplePractice calendar to show when you’re unavailable.

To learn more, see Managing out of office blocks.

Other documents

You can easily create, sign, and do more with other documents in SimplePractice. Other documents can also be shared with clients for e-signatures.

To learn more, see Adding other documents.

Customizable note templates

Templates for intake forms, progress notes, other documents, and treatment plans can be customized to fit your practice’s needs. You can create a template from scratch, or customize our default templates with a variety of options.

Progress note, other document, and treatment plan templates are customizable on the Essential and Plus plans. Intake form templates can be customized on all plans.

For more information, see Creating a new template and accessing the template builder.

Wiley Treatment Planners

SimplePractice offers Wiley Treatment Planners, which are research-based templates designed to support treatment planning.

To learn more, see Using Wiley Treatment Planners.

Administrative notes

Administrative notes let you and your team members keep track of important client details without becoming part of official clinical documentation.

To learn more, see Using administrative notes.

Insurance billing

SimplePractice supports insurance billing features such as electronic claim filing, claim tracking, and automatic ERA/EOB payment recording. You can also create, download, and print auto-populated CMS-1500 claim forms to submit outside of SimplePractice.

To learn more, see Getting started with insurance billing.

Analytics dashboard and reports

The Analytics dashboard provides an overview of your practice’s performance over time, including snapshots of income, outstanding balances, and more.

To learn more, see Understanding your Analytics dashboard and reports.

Client waitlist

The waitlist lets you track prospective clients if you're not currently accepting new clients.

For more information, see Managing the client waitlist.

Automatic insurance status checks

SimplePractice runs automatic insurance status checks on your behalf to verify a client's primary insurance benefits. These checks indicate whether coverage is active, inactive, or needs review, and they run periodically as well as when a new plan is added.

For more information, see Verifying a client’s insurance benefits.

ePrescribe

With ePrescribe, you can prescribe medications to your clients electronically.

To learn more and review pricing details for ePrescribe, see Adding ePrescribe to your SimplePractice account.

Note Taker

Note Taker generates draft progress notes based on your appointments, helping streamline documentation while keeping you in control of your notes.

For more information, see Understanding Note Taker.

FAQs

• Does SimplePractice offer HIPAA compliant eFax or faxing capabilities?
• Does SimplePractice offer a public API?

Does SimplePractice offer HIPAA compliant eFax or faxing capabilities?

SimplePractice doesn’t currently support eFaxing. While we don’t have plans to add this feature at this time, you can use a third-party HIPAA compliant eFax solution if faxing documentation is required.

Does SimplePractice offer a public API?

SimplePractice doesn’t currently offer a public-facing API for integrations with other software or platforms. While we may consider this in the future, it isn’t available at this time.