One connected platform
Every workflow.
One clear view.
Run appointments, patient care, dispensing, stock, tills and reporting from one modern platform designed around how UK optical practices actually work.
Practice workspace
Riverside · Live overview
Appointments
28 today
Patients
12 active
Clinical
6 to sign
Dispensing
16 orders
Stock
4 alerts
Reporting
Live
Patient journey stays connected
Booking → exam → dispense → payment → recall
Modules
The full practice workflow, module by module
Appointments
Appointments designed around real branch workflows
Website booking widget Patient portal
- Branch diary and examiner diary views
- Optional examiner assignment
- Unassigned appointment queue
- Flexible reassignment with audit history
- Support for locum cover
- Branch capacity and staffing visibility
- Appointment type configuration
- Check-in and appointment status tracking
- Website booking requests from your own site
- Patient portal bookings into the same diary
Branch Diary · Riverside
Patient Portal
Included as standard, controlled by the practice
- Online booking for existing patients only
- Book any bookable slot, or published clinic sessions only
- Bookings arrive unassigned or auto-assign from the rota
- Cancellation and reschedule requests need practice approval
- Upcoming and past appointments
- Prescriptions and shared documents
- Clinical images shared image by image
- Self-service contact details and preferences
- Practice-branded portal emails
- UK-based hosting for patient data
Patient Record · Sarah Johnson
Patient Care
Patient records built for optical care
- Patient profile and contact details
- Communication preferences and consent indicators
- Patient timeline
- Clinical visit records
- Guided examination workspace with live progress panel
- Copy objective to subjective, subjective to final Rx, eye to eye
- Carry ocular health forward and pull the previous prescription in
- Quick-fill presets for normal findings
- Pre-Test capture of IOP, habitual Rx and images
- Prescriptions issued and printed in one click, numbered and locked
- Documents and images
- Controlled amendments and signed records
Operations
Connect dispensing, stock and sale
Dispensing & Labs
- Per-pair frame and lens specification with measurements
- Estimates on the dispensing order
- Lab order PDF generated from the order
- Emailed to a named lab in one click, moving the order to Ordered
- Re-sends flagged UPDATE so labs never work to a superseded copy
- Status pipeline through to collection, with full history
- Sale created from the order, including deposits and part payments
Stock
- Product catalogue
- Barcode support
- Stock movements
- Receiving and transfers
- Supplier and purchase workflows
- Low stock visibility
Till & POS
- Retail sales
- Patient-linked or anonymous transactions
- Cash and card recording
- Receipt printing
- Cash drawer support
- End-of-day reconciliation
- Sales reports
Communications
Controlled patient communications
- SMS and email templates
- Appointment confirmations
- Reminders
- Recall communication
- Communication preferences
- Opt-out handling
- Usage and segment visibility
- Delivery and audit history
Reporting
Clearer visibility for practice owners and managers
- Branch dashboards
- Appointment reports
- Unassigned booking visibility
- Clinician and staffing views
- Sales reporting
- Stock reporting
- Communication usage reporting
- Audit and export visibility
Branch Dashboard
NHS & Staffing
NHS paperwork and staffing capacity, handled in the platform
NHS-ready workflows
- GOS claim preparation from the appointment
- Referrals created, lettered and tracked
- NHS ODS lookup for referral destinations
- GP lookup from the same NHS directory
- NHS number checksum validation
Rota and capacity
- Rota, rota templates and availability
- Opening hours per branch
- Examiner coverage rules that block uncovered slots
- Locum support with same-day, clinic-only visibility
- Bank holidays and closures synced from GOV.UK
Scope, stated plainly: GOS claims are prepared in ZenOptix rather than submitted electronically to PCSE or eGOS, and referrals are created and tracked rather than transmitted to hospital systems. NHS ODS directory lookups are live today. ZenOptix does not perform live NHS demographic lookups.
Administration
Access control built into the platform
- Platform, organisation and branch roles
- Organisation and location context
- Role-based permissions
- Locum access support
- Controlled support access
- Audit logging for sensitive actions
- Secure file handling
- Controlled exports and accounting exports
- Support access requires practice approval, time-limited and audited
- Data protection and subject access request handling
- Billing portal with invoices, payments and plan visibility
- SMS allowance, usage and threshold visibility
- UK-based hosting for practice and patient data
The Connected Workflow
From booking to recall, keep the workflow connected
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Patient books
Online, or by phone with your team.
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Check in
Track arrival and status.
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Clinical visit
Notes, tests and prescriptions.
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Dispense
Orders linked to the patient.
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Take payment
Till, receipts and reconciliation.
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Send recall
Templates with opt-outs.
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Review reports
Visibility across branches.
See how ZenOptix fits your practice workflow
Book a demo and explore how ZenOptix can support your appointments, patients, dispensing, stock, tills and branch operations.