Eighteen months of milestones, from the business plan to the ninety-day review, each on a real date. If you are starting late, the plan tells you what is already due instead of pretending you are on schedule.
Lenders read the projection first. Use the startup cost calculator for the funding number.
Get pre-qualified before you fall in love with a building.
General practice, urgent care or mixed; dentistry, surgery, imaging, boarding. Every choice sets the floor plan.
Drive-time, visibility, parking, competing clinics, and whether the space can take a surgery suite.
Ask for veterinary references. Animal facilities have their own plumbing, HVAC and noise problems.
Negotiate the build-out period and a tenant improvement allowance before the lease.
Plan, projections, LOI, personal financials. SBA 7(a) is the usual vehicle for a first practice.
Rent should start after the build-out period, not before.
Bank, credit card, payroll provider.
Permit timelines vary from four weeks to four months. Start the moment plans are ready.
Changes after this point cost money and weeks.
Radiography, dental unit and dental x-ray, surgery table, anesthesia machines, cages and runs.
Weekly site walk. Photograph everything behind the walls.
Also the state premise permit and your veterinary licence for the new address. These take longer than anyone expects.
General liability, property, workers' compensation, professional liability, and business interruption.
On Bittsi's New Practice Program you pay nothing until opening day. Catalog and price-list import starts now.
The person who builds the schedule, the inventory and the culture with you.
IDEXX or Antech, your distributor, compounding pharmacy, crematorium.
Priced from your costs and your market, loaded into the software once.
A coming-soon page with pre-booking beats a launch-day website.
Offers now, start dates three to six weeks before opening.
Bittsi Pay with a free terminal, interchange-plus, next-business-day funding.
Before the first order arrives, not after.
Staged deliveries: pharmacy and consumables two weeks out, perishables the week of.
Radiography acceptance testing, dental unit, autoclave validation.
Every role set up before the first shift.
Live sessions on the software, the protocols and the phones. Record them for later hires.
Counted into the system, minimums and reorder points set.
Neighbourhood mailer, local vets and groomers, a community open house.
Two mock days with staff pets. Emergency and controlled-substance protocols rehearsed.
Fire, health, building. Keep copies in the front office.
Friends, family and staff pets. Fix what breaks.
Billing for the software starts today, not before.
New clients, visits, average transaction, no-shows, cash.
Hours, hiring, fee schedule, marketing spend, and what the first 300 clients told you.
The calendar file puts every milestone on its own day in Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar. The software milestones assume Bittsi's New Practice Program: nothing to pay until opening day.
Sign, set your opening date, and use the run-up to load the catalog, the templates and the team. Billing starts on opening day: Standard for $249 a month in year one.
