The membership defense for independent practice

Corporate isn’t buying your practice. It’s buying your clients.

Roughly 15,000 “first exam free” ads are live right now, aimed at the clients you bonded. Vetreve gives them a reason to ignore every one: they pay monthly, 110% comes back as a Care Rewards balance, and it spends on any service at your practice. Front desk redeems in five seconds.

Every demo starts with your practice's exposure report — the corporate offers running around you and where clients are leaking. Built before the call, yours to keep.

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Bella & Max
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A free first visit for your pet at Northgate.
One exam — no strings attached. Book whenever you're ready.
$75 value
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Angel Fund
100% goes to care · tax-deductible
Fund total · Northgate
$4,820
37 pets helped this year
Active case · this week
Luna
Emergency surgery · recovering
Luna was treated thanks to member donations to the Angel Fund. Her family couldn't have done it alone.
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Sarah Chen
Family Plan · Member since 2026
Your pets
Bella
Dog · 4y
Max
Cat · 7y
Membership
PlanFamily · $50/mo
Next renewalJul 28, 2026
Rewards loaded$55/mo
Your brand · not ours
Carries over · every pet

“One of the most innovative solutions I've seen for the biggest pain points smaller practices face — and the demands of the modern consumer. I always liked the earlier model; this is a massive jump on every level.”

Dr. Peter Weinstein, DVM, MBA
Dr. Peter Weinstein, DVM, MBA
Vetreve Advisor · 40 years in vet med
How it works

Live in three steps. No new software to run.

1
An offer ready on day one

A membership you can offer clients immediately — customized to your practice, built on 14 years of veterinary membership experience.

2
Clients join themselves

Explain it once. Then clients join on their own — at the front desk, and across your email, social, and referrals. No pitch required.

3
Redeem in seconds

Process member value with a 5-minute staff training and about 5 seconds at checkout — without touching a button. Built for independents to level the playing field.

Works with every PIMS — available now.
First 5 practices: $0 onboarding — no risk to start. $1,000 after that.
Book a demo →
Backed by veterinary leaders
Dr. Peter Weinstein
Dr. Peter Weinstein, DVM, MBA
Co-author, The E-Myth Veterinarian · Past President, SCVMA
Dee Allen
Dee Allen, RVT, CVPM
34+ yrs · SCVMA 2026 Team Member of the Year
The leak you can feel

You have the trust. You just don't have the offer.

Clients trust you more than any corporate group — but trust doesn't hold them. Corporate runs free-exam ads 24/7 and pays staff to work a wellness-plan machine. Independents have had no answer, and it shows: the average practice's active-client count has shrunk by about 95 active clients a year — a net loss of roughly 475 over five years (AVMA).

AVMA active-client benchmarking, Oct 2025 · 2025 Practice Owners Survey.

The 95-client leak, explained →

Active clients / practice ▾ −95 / yr
20192024 · 3,351
The 2026 industry numbers · Brakke / VHMA

Four straight years of falling visits.

That's the headline of Brakke Consulting's 2026 industry overview, presented to practice managers with the VHMA in July 2026. The falloff isn't sick visits — it's wellness visits. Brakke's read: budget-tight owners are stretching the annual exam to 15–18 months, and every stretched exam is a client drifting toward lapsed.

4th
straight year of declining visits
2025 closed at −2.8% — and it's wellness visits falling, not sick visits. (Vetsource, 6,624 practices)
No. 1
“Reduced client visits” — practice managers' top concern
The presenters called it a first: visits outranked burnout, the economy, and staffing in VHMA's own member survey. (VHMA, 2025)
81%
of vets say clients are more cost-concerned than a year ago
Up from 72%. And when clients decline care, diagnostics top the list at 66% — essential care stays protected. (Brakke survey, 2025)

The usual fix is spent. Practices raised prices 6.6% against 3.0% core inflation in 2025, and revenue growth still slowed to 2.4% — Brakke's own slides now question whether above-inflation pricing is sustainable at all. Meanwhile, recurring revenue kept growing right past the exam room: 84% of Chewy's sales run on Autoship. Pet owners already put pet care on subscription. Retail captured it. The exam room didn't.

Asked live: does a subscription model put clients off?

“The data is pretty overwhelming that they improve spend and profitability.”

John Volk · Senior Consultant, Brakke Consulting · VHMA industry webinar, July 2026

He named the real barrier, too: payment infrastructure. Small practices can't keep card numbers on file, so recurring plans have mostly stayed corporate. That's the exact gap Vetreve closes — members pay through the platform, and your practice never touches a card number.

Brakke Consulting / VHMA, “2026 Animal Health Industry Overview,” July 2026 · visit data: Vetsource, 6,624 practices · Brakke year-end survey of 351 veterinary professionals · VHMA 2025 member survey
What owners want

Owners want a simpler way to afford care.

52%
of pet owners skipped or declined recommended care — mostly on cost.

They want options — a simple monthly way to make care predictable and affordable, built into an easy flow. They already trust membership. They just want a real one — not a paw-stamp punch card that cheapens your brand.

Gallup / PetSmart Charities, 2024
What your clients open

Care Rewards — a balance they come back for.

Members pay monthly and get 110% back in Care Rewards — a balance that loads instantly, carries over, and covers every pet they own. The opposite of a plan they lose if they don't use it.

One member's care balance
$0
$55 loaded every month · 110%
Month 1Month 12
Now imagine every client paying for most of their care — ahead of time.
01
Carries over
Unused balance rolls forward. Nothing is lost.
02
Covers every pet · pause anytime
One membership for the whole household. Pause up to 6 months.
03
Built under your name
White-labeled to your brand. The relationship — and the revenue — stay yours.
A golden retriever trotting back across a sunlit yard with a ball — clients who keep coming back
The asset corporate can't buy

Recurring revenue you own — and they can't.

Recurring revenue isn't just money — it's clients who keep coming back. Every payment builds a balance they'd walk away from if they left, so they don't. Corporate can rent attention with ads; they can't buy a relationship that compounds every month. That's the asset — and it's yours, not corporate's.

Built to be shared

Corporate can't advertise their membership. You can.

Their wellness plan takes twenty minutes and a page of fine print to explain — so nobody shares it. Yours fits on one screen. Members gift exams and refer friends right from their phone, and you can invite any prospect to compare it, head-to-head, with the wellness plan they already have.

A built-in referral engine turns your members into your best marketing.

Wellness plan vs. reward membership: the full comparison →

The corporate war chest

You can't outspend them.

About 15,000 “first exam free” ads are live in the U.S. right now — the wall an independent practice is up against.

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Metro Pet Hospital
Sponsored
Free First Exam
B
Bright Paws Vet
Sponsored
$0 New-Patient Exam
A
Anderson Animal Hosp.
Sponsored
First Exam On Us
C
City Vet Care
Sponsored
Free Exam · New Clients
C
Companion Pet Clinic
Sponsored
New Patient Exam FREE
P
PetWell Animal Hospital
Sponsored
Free First Visit
…and about 15,000 more running right now · Meta Ad Library

You'll never win the spend. You can win the offer.

Where you win

Same $750 bill. Two different checkouts.

Corporate rents attention with ad spend. The membership wins at the counter — the moment that decides whether the client stays.

The money moment — a $750 visit
Your member $225due now
A $750 bill at checkout. She already has $450 in rewards, plus a covered exam worth $75 — and the exam never touches her rewards. Both come off the total. She pays $225 and walks out.
Fee-for-service $750due now
Same $750, nothing set aside. The front desk slides over a credit-card application — fine print, hard credit pull — and has the money conversation it dreads, one more time.

The cost-of-care problem finally has a real answer: a membership with monthly payments that cover the average pet's care at your practice.

Why the practice still wins
Locked in
Recurring revenue and a committed client — not a one-and-done visit.
Funds ready
Rewards sitting in the wallet to put toward the treatment you recommend.
Never the bait
A member building a balance won't chase a competitor's "free exam" ad.

On the demo we walk your exposure report — the corporate offers running around your practice — then build your plans, done with you.

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Why this isn't another vendor
Brian Macrae, Founder

“I built Rethink Veterinary Solutions — the first vet membership platform — 14 years ago. Practices across the country still run on it, clients and all, even though I closed onboarding in 2020. Every ‘loyalty card’ in today's practice software traces back to that idea. None became a real membership with numbers to show for it. Vetreve is that model, rebuilt for now.”

Brian Macrae Founder
Founder of Rethink Veterinary Solutions · 14 years building veterinary membership programs
Dee Allen, RVT, CVPM
Dee AllenSenior Advisor
RVT, CVPM · 34+ years · SCVMA 2026 Team Member of the Year

Has launched and run membership programs across multiple practices — a natural champion for the model — and founded BreastFriends.Care, a nonprofit helping breast-cancer patients care for their pets during treatment.

Dr. Peter Weinstein, DVM, MBA
Dr. Peter Weinstein, DVM, MBAAdvisor
40 years in vet med · Co-author, The E-Myth Veterinarian · CVMA Lifetime Achievement

“We've gone from a healthcare provider to a service industry that provides healthcare. Give the client an experience and they come back — that's good for pets and for profits.”

Plans · fully customizable

We build the plan around your practice.

Book a demo — we'll review how you work, answer your questions, and customize a plan that fits your services, your prices, your market. The three below are just a starting point.

Founding cohort · limited to 20 seats
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Cedar Creek Animal Hospital
Care Rewards membership
What $50/month gets you
Without membership
Pay $50 · get $50 in care
$50
no savings
With membership
$55 Care Rewards, loaded instantly
$55
in care value
110% of every payment · every month
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Bayshore Veterinary Care
Care Rewards membership
What $65/month gets you
Without membership
Pay $65 · get $65 in care
$65
no savings
With membership
$71.50 Care Rewards, loaded instantly
$71.50
in care value
110% of every payment · every month
Join now
vetreve.com/join/maplewood
M
Maplewood Pet Clinic
Care Rewards membership
What $30/month gets you
Without membership
Pay $30 · get $30 in care
$30
no savings
With membership
$33 Care Rewards, loaded instantly
$33
in care value
110% of every payment · every month
Join now
Three practices · three custom plans · one platform
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One call · your exposure report · no cost

See exactly where you're losing clients — then plug the holes.

Book a demo and we build your practice's exposure report before the call — then walk it together, through the same lens corporate uses on you.

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No cost, no obligation. You keep the full report whether you join or not — and the first 5 practices onboard for $0.

1
Your competitive map
The corporate practices advertising around you right now — and the offers they're running to take your clients.
2
Your SEO + AEO audit
Where clients can't find you — in search, and in the AI answers now deciding who gets recommended when someone asks “best vet near me.” It's the next front you're losing to corporate. We show the gap and the fix.
3
Your money-leak report + the plan
The revenue slipping out the door — and the membership we'd build to keep it, mapped to your practice.