Beyond Front Desk: make the migration count
Front Desk has run Australian allied clinics dependably for decades. Its cloud transition moment means every Front Desk practice is choosing a migration — the only question is the destination.
Where Front Desk is strong
Front Desk, by Adelaide's Smartsoft, is a long-established Australian practice management system popular with physiotherapy and allied health clinics, traditionally installed on practice hardware, with PracSuite as its cloud successor.
Decades of allied-health billing depth including HICAPS and Medicare claiming. Fast, keyboard-friendly front-desk workflows. Strong local reputation and support.
Why practices look beyond it
The classic product is server-based, with the usual hardware and IT overhead. Moving to its cloud successor is itself a migration decision — a natural moment to compare the whole market. Modern patient communications and AI assistance are not the core design.
How Intellicore answers
Here's the structural insight: moving from Front Desk to its own cloud successor is a real migration — new interface, retraining, data transfer. Since you're paying that cost regardless, the rational move is comparing every destination on merit. Intellicore's case: the billing rigour Front Desk practices are used to (claiming, reconciliation, end-of-day discipline) built cloud-native, plus the layer no legacy lineage offers — automated sequences, unified SMS/email inbox, live patient flow, and AI agents under human approval with full audit trails.
Moving from Front Desk
Front Desk migrations bring patients, appointments, billing and documents across. We run extraction, map item histories, and reconcile before cut-over.
Front Desk vs Intellicore, at a glance
| Aspect | Front Desk | Intellicore |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | On-premise server (hosted options exist) | Cloud-native — any device, no servers, continuous updates |
| Pricing model | Licence plus annual support; pracsuite is subscription-based | Quoted per practice; onboarding includes migration and training |
| Data residency & isolation | Varies by deployment — confirm hosting location and tenancy model | AWS Sydney, one isolated database schema per practice |
| Australian claiming | Established — verify your specific workflows in a demo | Medicare, DVA and health-fund claiming modelled end to end, GST invoicing |
| Automation & AI | Varies — confirm what runs unattended and what is add-on | Audited task engine + AI agents with human approval on every send |
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Common questions
What does migrating from Front Desk involve?
Front Desk migrations bring patients, appointments, billing and documents across. We run extraction, map item histories, and reconcile before cut-over. The whole process runs in five steps — demo and discovery, configuration, data migration, parallel testing, go-live — and our team does the work.
Is Intellicore built for Australian practices?
Entirely. Australian company (Intellisys Core Pty Ltd, Queensland), data hosted in AWS Sydney with one isolated database schema per practice, Privacy Act-aligned compliance posture, GST-compliant invoicing, and Medicare, DVA and health-fund claiming modelled end to end.
How does Intellicore pricing work?
Pricing is quoted per practice after a demo, and onboarding is done for you — our team installs, configures, migrates your data and trains your staff. There is no self-serve signup: every practice goes live with its data and workflows in place rather than an empty account.
How do I see it working?
Book a demo — we'll walk through Intellicore configured for your kind of practice, with your workflows. Use the form on this page and we'll reply to arrange a time that suits your team.
See it working with your kind of data
Register your interest and we'll arrange a walkthrough of Intellicore configured for your practice — your workflows, your questions, no obligation.