If you're switching to Cliniko from PPS or PPS Express, then here are the details you’ll need in order to transfer your data into your Cliniko account!

The first step is booking your transfer date! We sometimes book months in advance, so we strongly recommend you book as soon as you can to avoid further delays:

Once you've done that, please read through the guide below. It's important to review each section thoroughly, as it outlines your role in the transfer, and what we do for you.

The guide is broken into the following sections:

For a smooth transition, please ensure that your team has had an opportunity to play around with Cliniko and are familiar with it. The trial is unrestricted, so all features are available to set up and become familiar with. You can change your subscription level as required while trialing, which will let you add more practitioners!

In case it's useful, these training guides might come in handy:

All of our support articles and guides can be found on our help site, too! You can quickly search for anything you’d like help with right here.

All users are encouraged to contact our support team with any questions. We're easiest reached from within Cliniko by clicking Help on the blue sidebar, and clicking Chat with us! If you'd prefer email, you can reach us at support@cliniko.com.

In order for Cliniko to transfer your clinical notes, letters, and patient attachments, you will need a full backup of your raw data from PPS or PPS Express (the exported data is the same).

If you are hosting a PPS server/file share on your own systems, then you'll be able to take a backup yourself. Within PPS, select Tools from the application's main menu, then Backup…

Although we'd very much like you to take every possible measure to protect your backed-up data, please do not encrypt the backup as the password will not be displayed to you, and we will not be able to decrypt the data for transfer.

Choose a location on your computer to store the backup, then Continue.

For more information, follow the PPS backup guide here: http://www.rushcliff.com/download/pdf/PPSHelp-BackingUpYourData.pdf

If you are running PPS remotely (hosted by Rushcliff) or PPS Express, you'll need contact your PPS account manager or PPS Support to organise this. You will need to request a full raw data backup (.DBF format). This is a complete copy of your raw data including letters, documents, etc.

Once you have confirmed a date and time for back-up with PPS, please let us know. It is advisable to have your data backed-up as close to the transfer date as possible, to minimise the amount of data to be manually entered.

Once you have your exported data, please upload it to your preferred cloud storage service (Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc), and share with us from there. It is also possible to simply forward us the Filemail links that PPS provide you with, for us to download directly. Contact us if you have any questions.

At a minimum, please ensure your data is exported and shared with us at latest the day before your scheduled transfer, so that we have time to download your exported database. It's important to have all these steps completed prior to the transfer, as we still require time on the day of transfer to load and prepare your data in our system to then be written into your Cliniko account.

There's a bit of setup required in Cliniko prior to the transfer. These are things that we can't necessarily determine or transfer from PPS, or settings that are specific to Cliniko.

Please ensure the following things are set up as soon as possible:

Other items that are not required prior to transfer, but are not transferred and will need to be set up manually are:

Note that when we transfer appointments, we will need a practitioner assigned to the appointment. This is a little complicated for instances where the practitioner is no longer with you and therefore not in Cliniko. In these cases, please let us know whether you would prefer to assign the appointments to:

Alternatively, you may create all your specific members of staff (past and present) in Cliniko, and we’ll assign all appointments correctly. You can set those former practitioners as inactive, as your Cliniko subscription price is based on the total number of active practitioners.

Finally, Cliniko limits the volume of patient attachments in trial accounts. To remove this limit, please add your billing details into your account. Your free trial will continue until completion, and your credit card will not be charged until your trial period has expired.

You can quickly search for and find our guides and help articles to assist you with the setup process on our help site, here.

If you'd like any assistance with getting set up, feel free to contact us! Even if you just have a quick question that you’d like an answer for, we are easiest reached from within Cliniko by clicking Help on the blue sidebar, and clicking Chat with us! You can also click the chat "bubble" at the bottom right corner of this page.

Note that no data is removed from PPS in the transfer process. Data is copied to your Cliniko account. The types of data that are transferred are not customisable.

Transfer to Cliniko will include the following from your PPS export, and will appear as described in Cliniko:

Once we’ve finished transfer, you will need to review your appointment types within Cliniko and finish setting them up (assign practitioners to them, assign colours, relate billable items and treatment note templates, assign reminder and confirmation templates).
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Prior to the data transfer, please avoid performing any data imports for:

We will import all of these as part of the PPS transfer. If that data is already in Cliniko, it will be duplicated.

Unfortunately, all financial details are excluded from transfer. There is not a way to import financial data into Cliniko. This includes:

If you'd like to record prior payment history or outstanding debts in Cliniko, you can create an opening balance for those patients. This is not considered revenue and will not affect Cliniko's reporting.

In addition, the following items are not transferrable and must be set up manually where needed:

When you book a transfer date, you'll be sent a confirmation email which includes a link to a secure electronic form. This form is where the below information is collected from you. If you miss the confirmation email, another link to the same form will be sent in a reminder email closer to your transfer date. Please let us know if you do not receive these emails.

Do you have any practitioners in PPS who are inactive?
If so, we will need to determine what to do with appointments assigned to them. There are a couple of options here:

In order to access your new Cliniko account and write your data to it, we’ll need your Cliniko URL and an API key.

Your URL can be found in your browser address bar when you're logged in to Cliniko, and will look something like https://your-clinic.au2.cliniko.com. This is required so that we may be sure we’re transferring data to the correct account.

Please log in to your Cliniko account to generate the API key. You'll need to be logged in as an administrative user who is also a practitioner so that the API key generated has the required data access permissions. Please also see our guide on generating a Cliniko API key.

Your API keys are like passwords, and must be handled with care. It's very important that this information is transmitted to us securely. When you book a transfer date, you'll be sent a confirmation email which includes a link to a secure electronic form. This form is where you can safely communicate your API keys and other information to us. If you miss the confirmation email, another link to the same form will be sent in a reminder email closer to your transfer date. Please let us know if you do not receive these emails.

We’ll also need to do some verification of an account administrator to get the final go-ahead to access the account and load data, so please ensure a mobile numbers are included in user's profiles so we can send a verification code to the required user.

As a reminder, uploading your PPS backup will take time, and transfer into Cliniko cannot start until that backup is uploaded to us. If this process is only able to start on the morning of transfer, your actual transfer may not commence until much later in the day. Accordingly, please schedule backup and upload at least one day prior to your transfer.

Please ensure you are contactable on the day of the transfer. While we shouldn’t need to hassle you much on that day, we may need to contact you if some of the required information or set up is incomplete. If we can’t get in touch with you, we can wait, but this may result in your transfer being delayed.

Transfers are usually performed between 8am and 3pm AEDT, Mon-Fri. We’ll get started on the morning of your booking and let you know when we are done. If it looks like things will take longer than the booked day, we’ll be sure to reach out and keep you informed of the progress.

When the transfer is completed, you’ll be able to use your data within Cliniko immediately.

If there’s anything you’d like to confirm or discuss prior to transfer, please do let us know - we’re here to help!

Having all of this done before the transfer takes place is super important. Please be sure that each item on these lists has been checked off prior to your transfer date!

We know that transferring from another system is a big deal, and we want to help make the process as easy as possible for you. If you have any questions on anything at all, please reach out to us. We're always available to help!