Nerela vs WriteUpp: which is right for you?
WriteUpp is one of the UK's longest-established practice-management platforms for talk therapy and allied health, billed natively in GBP. Nerela is newer here, and built specifically around the three things that quietly cost a psychology practice money: no-shows, unbilled sessions, and payments you have to chase. Here's how they actually differ.
Pricing, compared honestly
WriteUpp publishes its Flex plan from £19.95 to £27.95 per user, per month, plus VAT, scaling with each additional practitioner you add. That's a real, published number in the currency you already budget in — and if a fixed GBP figure matters to you more than anything else, that's a genuine point in WriteUpp's favour.
Nerela's current plans are shown on our own pricing page, with 14 days free and no card to start. Rather than quote a figure here that could go stale, we'd rather you see the live number where we actually keep it up to date.
What's included in the base price
Historically, WriteUpp has sold some features — online booking, video sessions, its AI notes assistant — as separate add-ons on top of the base per-user price, rather than bundling everything into one number. Providers change this over time, so confirm exactly what's included at your team size on WriteUpp's own pricing page before you commit.
Nerela bundles scheduling with online booking, patient records with session notes, invoice-receipts with a card payment link, and automatic reminders by email and WhatsApp into one account price. The one genuinely optional add-on is the Virtual Receptionist, and it's labelled as an add-on rather than hidden in a higher tier.
Do the maths for your actual headcount. Per-user pricing like WriteUpp's is easy to underestimate once you add a third or fourth practitioner — multiply the per-user figure by your real team size, not just today's, before comparing it against a flat account price.
Who each one actually fits
WriteUpp tends to fit an already-established, growing multi-practitioner allied-health team that wants a mature, UK-native billed platform and is comfortable with pricing that scales per user as the team grows.
Nerela tends to fit a solo psychologist or a small practice that wants no-shows, invoicing and reminders solved as one flat account price, and is comfortable trying a newer, EU-hosted product without years of UK track record behind it yet.
See the current numbers side by side
Check Nerela's live pricing, then decide with your own numbers from the calculator.
The honest trade-off
Nerela is genuinely newer to the UK market than WriteUpp, which has a longer local history and a wider existing user base among allied-health practitioners here. What Nerela offers instead is a product built from the ground up around the three specific leaks — no-shows, unbilled sessions, and payments you have to chase — rather than a general-purpose scheduling tool with invoicing bolted on. Which trade-off is right for you depends on whether you value an established local track record more, or a narrower product built specifically around those three problems.
Switching from WriteUpp, practically
If you're already running your practice on WriteUpp and considering a move, the practical question isn't just price — it's how much of your existing history you can bring with you. Client records, appointment history and past invoices are the things worth checking before you switch anything, whichever direction you're moving. Most systems, Nerela included, support importing clients from a CSV export, so the switch doesn't mean starting your client list from zero, even if some manual tidying is usually needed either way.
Support, while you're deciding
One difference that's easy to overlook next to a pricing table: who you actually talk to when something doesn't work as expected. WriteUpp, as an established platform, has a larger support team and a longer history of documented answers. Nerela is smaller, which cuts the other way in a specific sense — a question tends to reach the people who actually built the feature, rather than a generic support queue. Neither is objectively better; it's a real difference worth weighing alongside the price.
Frequently asked questions
Is WriteUpp cheaper than Nerela?+
It depends on your team size and which currency you're comparing in. WriteUpp's published Flex plan runs from £19.95 to £27.95 per user, per month, plus VAT — multiply that by your real headcount and compare it against Nerela's current plans on our pricing page before deciding.
Does WriteUpp charge extra for online booking or video sessions?+
Historically, some of these have been priced as separate add-ons rather than included in the base per-user fee. This changes over time, so confirm exactly what's bundled at your plan and team size on WriteUpp's own current pricing page.
Can I move my clients from WriteUpp to Nerela?+
Yes. You import them from a CSV file, or, if you'd rather, we set up your schedule, session types and the import with you in one working session, so you're not doing it alone.
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