Most of what changed in KodaVet 1.7 comes down to the same thing: fewer steps between deciding to do something and having it recorded. A refill that doesn't need a full visit written around it. A schedule that shows up on the phone you already carry. A records email that contains only what you meant to send. Here's what your team can do now that it couldn't last month.
Refills without writing a full visit
A client calls because the dog is nearly out of its medication. Nothing about the case has changed, no one is coming in, and yet in a lot of systems the only way to record the refill is to open a visit and fill in a chart that describes an appointment that never happened.
You can now log a refill on its own. It's tracked against the original prescription, so the medication and everything dispensed against it stay connected rather than scattered across encounters that never took place. Refills of controlled substances capture the detail those records require. And if the refill started life as a task — the callback someone left for the afternoon — the task links straight to the refill form, so whoever picks it up isn't hunting for the right patient first.
Your schedule where you already look for it
Providers check their phone, not a practice management system, when they want to know what tomorrow looks like. KodaVet now connects to a provider's Google Calendar and puts their appointments there.
It's one-way by design: KodaVet pushes to Google, and nothing flows back. Your schedule stays the schedule, and a stray personal event can't quietly become a booking. Each provider connects their own calendar under Settings → Calendar, so a vet who wants this can have it without anyone else's calendar being touched.
Send only the records you mean to send
Emailing records from a patient's chart already let you choose which sections went in. Now you can go a level finer and pick the individual items: particular visits, specific vaccinations, the one attachment that was asked for. When a referral practice wants the history around a single surgery, that's what they get, instead of a decade of chart notes with the relevant page somewhere in the middle.
Owners you can find, and a portal you control
Pet owners used to be reachable mainly through a patient record — fine when you know the pet's name, awkward when you have a person on the phone and a surname to go on. There's now a Clients section you can browse and search directly, so looking someone up doesn't start with guessing which of their animals was seen last.
Portal access is now yours to set per owner. Turn it on for the clients who want it, leave it off for the ones who don't, and change your mind later without involving anyone else. When someone loses their sign-in link — which they will — you can send a fresh one from the same place.
The right people doing the right things
Clinics have rules about who prescribes and who signs a chart, and a lot of software leaves those rules to convention. In KodaVet, prescribing and signing SOAP notes are limited to veterinarians, owners and admins. Technicians can draft a note in full and hand it to a vet to sign, which is how the work is already divided in most practices — the software follows the same division rather than asking you to remember it.
Two smaller things
Dark mode. There's a toggle in the sidebar, and it's remembered per device. It is meant for the parts of the job that happen in a dim exam room or at an hour when a white screen is genuinely unpleasant — the overnight shift, the early surgery prep, the laptop in the corner of a darkened room while a patient recovers.
Password change alerts. Account owners are emailed when their password changes, so a change nobody made doesn't go unnoticed.
Where to find it
Google Calendar sync is the one thing each provider sets up for themselves, under Settings → Calendar. Dark mode is the toggle in the sidebar, and portal access sits on each owner's record. See the full feature list, or try KodaVet free for 14 days with your own clinic data — no credit card required.