Retention · Marketing Workflows

Lifecycle automation, wired to your PMS.

Most dental marketing automation is bulk email blasts. Xcare's Marketing Workflows fire on real PMS events - a new patient charts in, a treatment plan goes unsigned, a recall comes due - so every message is timely and earned.

  • ● PMS event triggers
  • ● SMS + email + voice
  • ● Treatment plan follow-up
  • ● Birthday & milestone touches
Inside the module

What it does, end to end.

Event-triggered, not blast

New patient welcome series, post-op care, treatment plan follow-up, birthday, milestone (1 year as patient) - each fires on a real PMS event.

Treatment plan follow-up

Treatment plan presented but not scheduled? Sequenced follow-up with educational content, financing options, and easy booking - typically recovers 20-30% of unscheduled plans.

Multi-channel by design

SMS for time-sensitive (recall, missed appt). Email for educational. AI voice call for high-value treatment plans over $3,000.

Branching logic

Visual workflow builder. Branch on patient age, insurance plan, treatment type, last visit date, lifetime value.

The deep dive

What practice owners actually need to know.

Lifecycle automation that fires on PMS events, not calendars

Most dental email tools blast the whole patient list on Tuesdays. The result is unsubscribes, spam complaints, and patients getting a "welcome!" email three years after they became a patient. Xcare Marketing Workflows fire on PMS events - the things that actually happened in the practice - not on the calendar.

New patient books their first hygiene visit? A welcome sequence kicks off. Treatment plan presented but not accepted? A follow-up sequence with financing options. Procedure completed? A post-op care sequence with the right instructions for the right procedure. Birthday? A real birthday message, not a generic blast.

The workflows we ship out of the box

Every Xcare practice gets a starter library of workflows that just work. They're tuned across hundreds of practices and ready to turn on day one. Customization is per-practice tone and offers, not architecture.

  • New patient welcome (5-touch over 30 days)
  • Treatment plan follow-up (financing, second visit booking)
  • Post-op care by procedure (extraction, implant, perio, ortho)
  • Hygiene recall (6-month, 12-month, 18-month sequences)
  • Reactivation (long-lapsed patients)
  • Birthday and patient anniversary
  • Insurance "use it or lose it" (Q4 benefits remaining)
  • Referral thank-you and Xcare Rewards points credit

Why "PMS-event-triggered" is the only architecture worth running

A workflow triggered by a PMS event is, by definition, relevant. The patient just had the procedure. The treatment plan was just presented. The recall is actually due. There is no guesswork, no list segmentation drift, and no awkward "we noticed you might be due" guess.

This is only possible because Xcare lives natively in the PMS. Standalone email tools have to import lists weekly and pretend the data is current. Marketing Workflows reads from the same unified ledger as every other Xcare module - it's always in sync.

How to measure whether workflows are actually working

Every workflow is measured against a simple counterfactual: did patients who entered the workflow book the next appointment, accept the treatment plan, or leave the review at a higher rate than patients who didn't?

Inside Xcare IQ, workflow performance is a one-question query: "compare booking rate for treatment plans presented in the last 90 days, with vs without the follow-up workflow." Workflows that move the number stay; workflows that don't get rewritten or retired. No vanity open rates, no theater.

FAQ

Practice owners ask.

What dental marketing workflows have the highest ROI?

Treatment plan follow-up, recall reactivation, and post-op review request - in that order. All three are PMS-event-triggered, which is why one-size-fits-all email tools underperform.

Can I run drip campaigns on my own list?

Yes - Xcare segments your PMS list by demographics, treatment history, insurance, and lifetime value, then runs sequenced campaigns with full attribution back to booked appointments.

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