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Jason P.
Practice Manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Practice Manager"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Covetrus Pulse?

Pulse is very user friendly and easy to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Covetrus Pulse?

I wish the formatting and ease of use for the client communication campaigns were better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Beth Gruber of Covetrus Pulse

Hi Jason - Thanks for taking the time to share your review with the veterinary community. Your feedback is at the heart of everything we do.

CH
Cinthia H.
Owner/Veterinarian in Charge
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Glitchy"
1/5
What do you like best about Covetrus Pulse?

Can use from any location with internet access.

Ease of loading images from email and attaching emails, sending records.

Ease of text/email to clients (good client communication options).

Invoicing relatively easy, unless you have to search for something (e.g. search for "exam" and it brings up EVERYTHING with the word "exam" including exam gloves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Covetrus Pulse?

Difficult to find things in medical record after conversion, especially previous medications (Control F helps, but not always).

Reports that were supposed to be easy are NOT intuitive to get what you need (no easier than AviMark was, but when you get report at least appears more accurate).

Times out when you are working in a report or task. There are tricks to make sure you don't lose your information.

Log in and provider selection boxes don't scroll with you (minor dumb irritation).

Days the program gets slow, is not responding, incomplete loading of pages (refresh is your friend, but irritating when you have to do it multiple times). We monitor our internet connection and it has been fine, so not due to that.

Both major releases in past year (task list and exam reports) had to be rolled back within 2 days to fix issues. These should be addressed in non-production environment (but could be due to Azure being the cloud services provider as cloud geeks I know say Azure is a difficult environment to program in).

Exam report printout takes up too many pages, space could be used much more effectively.

Overall "glitchiness" of program gets very frustrating and slows down flow of appointments.

1st recommendation from support with any issue is "clear cache and cookies", which we now do everynight before shutdown and still having issues.

Some forms printout different than shows on screen of Pulse's word processor. You cannot easily convert a word document into Pulse's word processor (have to start from scratch). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lisa C.
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Lisa C.
Practice Manager
Veterinary
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"***UPDATE***Has potential but needs a lot of work"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Covetrus Pulse?

UPDATE: Recently, I have had our rep reach out as well as a few from other departments that were incredibly helpful. They began introducing the integration options they have rececntly begun, including Pharmacy and Compounding. The new features are pretty exciting for whomever wants toreach the goal of streamlining and ease. I'm looking forward to really utilizing these new features/integrations. Pulse is still an overwhelming beast BUT I might be a little more forgiving as we move forward!

Almost a double edged sword. The things I like are also manyof the things I don't like.

*** Evet/Pulse makes it easy to navigate from one animal to another on the same account.

*** I am all about settings and having the ability to modify, personalize, etc at anytime. Evet,overall, allows this.

*** From an HR perspective, adding employees and allowing or NOT allowing access is easy.

*** Their Chat customer Service is great! Hardly ever any waiting and so far,they have all been knowledgeable, answering my questions or solving my problems very quickly.

*** It also integrates with Idexx really well. It makes it easy to send lab requisitions and to receive results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Covetrus Pulse?

Well. Payment integration is an absolute joke. The main merchant, World Pay, is expensive and not a first choice at all. Gravity was the original prior to Covestrus, then the announcement of no longer using Gravity made many jump into action to find a new merchant only for Covetrus to say Just Kidding and keep Gravity. Too late for many who had chose another merchant. At this point it's a total messy nightmare and in the end, we have to deal with "Old" Gravity, "New" Gravity, Clover and the middle man - Animal Care Technologies.

*** Not very user friendly and definitely not easy to navigate. I love learning ne software/programs, etc but after 4 months, I still don't know where to go when I need something particular. A ton of areas to navigate to but that is actually what makes it unpleasant. Too extensive and links you think would take you one place, end up taking you to another. When on a call and someone needs a quick answer, that isn't always how it goes.

*** Back to payments, the inability to modify a invoice after payment can be a total nightmare. Sometimes I can make necessary changes and other times not so much. Regardless of permissions. When my numbers aren't matching because of an incorrect entry, I should have the ability to change as I see fit.

*** Reports. How in the holy heck do I go about putting together these reports when they don't make a whole lot of sense? I have to use the options given to create a report and although there are may options, each practice is different so being able to create a report that has what is needed no matter how random should be a given. THEN, when saving/printing a copy of a report, there is no way to set it up so that the important criteria you need is how it prints/saves. I need the excelsheet it imports to to have very specific columns and the amount of time put into reformatting the spreadsheet is a waste of valueable time that could be put towards something more business beneficial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from PHILLIP LAUGHTON of Covetrus Pulse

Thank you for sharing your experience with Covetrus Pulse. Your feedback matters and will help to shape our veterinary portfolio and our mission to keep veterinary practices thriving. We will pass this on to our product team for review.

SM
Sarah M.
Practice Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Very happy with the transition to Pulse, very user friendly cloud software."
4.5/5
What do you like best about Covetrus Pulse?

There are several ways to accomplish every task in the system so that each person can find their ideal workflow and become more efficient. I learn new ways of doing things constantly that make the program even easier to use than I ever imagined. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Covetrus Pulse?

The reporting system isn't great but we also haven't found any cloud based software with decent reporting compared to server based software I have used in the past. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michelle H.
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Michelle H.
Practice Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Pulse..."
3/5
What do you like best about Covetrus Pulse?

The interface is pretty simple for support staff to learn and navagate. The train your staff section works well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Covetrus Pulse?

The reporting is hard to utilize, it doesn't offer the options to pull reports like other software. The inventory count seems to be off a lot. There is not a way to simplify medical records when sending to referral or other clinics. The advanced training is somewhat nonexistent, the support team is hit or miss when trying to figure out if something can be done. They roll new options and then those options do not work or crash. Or tell you to put things in as a feature request. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Trisha D.
Practice Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy to get started/easy to learn!"
4/5
What do you like best about Covetrus Pulse?

We love the wellness plans and the fact that we can easily track items still owed from packages. Also, the Idexx integration is great as is the task list! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Covetrus Pulse?

We wish that we could include a package within a package (for example, add an anesthesia/sedation package to a surgery). Instead, you have to add each individual component and then hope the team remembers to remove everything not utilized! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Megan W.
Practice Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"1+ year Pulse user"
4/5
What do you like best about Covetrus Pulse?

That it is cloud-based, so no server is required Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Covetrus Pulse?

The amount of errro messages - but they do seem to resolve quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Beth Gruber of Covetrus Pulse

Hi Megan - Thanks for taking the time to share your review with the veterinary community. Your feedback is at the heart of everything we do.

BW
Bethany W.
Registered veterinary technician
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"The positives and negatives of pulse"
4/5
What do you like best about Covetrus Pulse?

I like how the schedule looks and the ease of making an appointment. I also like the task feature which allows the techs and receptionist let the doctors know what needs to be done. Lastly I like that we can record client communications in their record. Their customer service people are really wonderful and helpful! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Covetrus Pulse?

I dislike the prescription labels as the instructions print pretty small on them especially for multi line instructions. It can also be hard at times to find stuff since there are so many categories. I feel like we were never properly trained and there's always new things to discover on our own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from PHILLIP LAUGHTON of Covetrus Pulse

We’re so happy we could be there to help you provide your patients with great care. Your feedback is integral to us and to the veterinary industry. Keep thriving!

Verified User in Veterinary
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Verified User in Veterinary
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"My favorite PMS so far!"
5/5
What do you like best about Covetrus Pulse?

I have been working in veterinary medicine for 14 years now, and have used 7 different PMS systems throughout my career. When I learned that my newest clinic would be using Pulse, I have to be honest...I had never heard of it! I was filled with dread at the thought of learning yet another PMS. I'm about 60 days in... and I'm completely converted! I absolutely love Pulse. It presents information in a way that I find easy to navigate; my staff feel the same way. My favorite features so far are the "Tasks" page (callbacks, assignments, etc.) and the Covetrus order invoice integration. I also like that several websites are integrated directly into Pulse, such as our online pharmacy and Care Credit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Covetrus Pulse?

Like other PMS systems I have worked with there is more than one "correct" way to do many things -- this can be tricky when training new staff that have not used to software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Veterinary
AV
Verified User in Veterinary
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Most of the functions are good but there are some that feel unusually cumbersome."
4/5
What do you like best about Covetrus Pulse?

The interaction with scheduling, finding clients, seeing what clients are due for, etc. Reports are also very helpful and easy to use. Making small changes to pricing and procedures and tracking inventory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Covetrus Pulse?

Getting from MR to billing to other info is sometimes cumbersome and takes more time than it should to perform functions. Entering info into MR and retriving it is not an easy process and training only identified that we needed to establish our own uses. We were never helped with the pros and cons or how to make the choices of what works best for our clinic. Also would be nice to have client numbers available in more places than having to go back to info page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from PHILLIP LAUGHTON of Covetrus Pulse

We are grateful you took the time to review Covetrus Pulse as your feedback matters to us so we can continue to shape our portfolio to support the needs of veterinary practices just like yours.