Give every patient a professional, branded intake experience and give your team the hours back they spend on manual form admin.
Conditional logic, body charts, digital signatures, and full Cliniko sync, all set and forget. Made for Cliniko.
Finger-Ink has been providing intake, consent and PROMS forms for allied health clinics since 2015 — prior to appointment, and in-clinic.
Cliniko’s built-in forms do the basics well. They collect patient information, attach it to the record, and cost nothing extra. For a new clinic getting started, that’s often enough.
Then your clinic grows. You want forms that reflect your brand. You need conditional logic so a patient with a funding path sees different questions to a private patient. You want body charts for physio assessments, calculation fields for outcome scoring, and a form experience that patients actually comment on — for the right reasons.
That’s where Cliniko’s native forms stop.
Cliniko’s native forms have no custom theming, no conditional visibility, no calculation fields, no body charts, no video fields, and no identity verification. They work — but probably not in the way your growing clinic needs.
You've invested in your brand, your space, and your standard of care. Your patient intake should reflect that investment.
I love the fact that the form looks designed rather than an afterthought designed by a hospital clinician.
— Allied health clinic ownerFinger-Ink is purpose-built for Cliniko. Every form you create syncs directly to your patient record — custom fields, referral sources, gender, consent, privacy policy, and more. Not as a PDF attachment. Field by field, into the right place in Cliniko. Once your forms are live, they just work. No daily maintenance, no manual intervention, no chasing.
Custom themes with your clinic’s logo, colours, and visual style applied to every form and every patient touchpoint. Your intake experience looks considered, not default. Patients notice. They comment on it. This is the most common reason clinics move from Cliniko’s native forms to Finger-Ink — the difference is visible from the first interaction.
Build forms that adapt. A patient on an NDIS funding path sees questions relevant to NDIS. A private patient sees different fields. A new patient gets the full intake. A returning patient skips what you already have. No irrelevant questions, no confusion, no wasted time in the waiting room.
Score patient questionnaires automatically. Whether it’s a pain scale, a functional assessment, or a psychometric outcome measure, Finger-Ink calculates the result and syncs it to Cliniko. Your practitioners get a score, not a stack of numbers to add up between patients.
Patients tap directly on an anatomical chart to identify areas of pain, injury, or concern. The result is visual, specific, and synced to their Cliniko record. Particularly valuable for physiotherapy, chiropractic, osteopathy, and podiatry clinics where location matters as much as description.
Digital consent forms for privacy policies, treatment consent, and terms and conditions — all signed and attached to the patient record in Cliniko. Privacy-policy consent lands as a structured field on the record, where you can actually report on it, not buried in a PDF. One less piece of paper. One less compliance risk.
Embed video directly into a form. Use it to show patients a treatment explanation before they sign consent, or walk them through what to expect during their first visit. The video plays within the form experience — no external links, no context switching.
Finger-Ink can verify a patient's identity before pre-populating their details from Cliniko — a quick code to their email confirms it's really them. The right patient fills in the right form: no duplicate records, no data entry errors. And progress saves automatically, so a patient who steps away picks up right where they left off.
Form responses land where they belong in Cliniko. The fields you map — standard or custom — update the patient record directly; everything else writes into the treatment note, with a full PDF on file too. No re-keying, no hunting through attachments. Over 1.5 million forms processed across 550+ clinics, without your team needing to think about it.
Let's look at some of the differences and similarities between the two.
| Capability | Cliniko native forms | Finger-Ink for Cliniko |
|---|---|---|
| Custom branding — colours & logo | logo only | logo, colours & style |
| Conditional visibility logic | show/hide by answer | |
| Calculation fields | auto-score assessments | |
| Body charts | draw-on body charts | |
| Digital signatures | no visibility logic | can use visibility logic |
| Video fields | ||
| Identity verification | via name & dob | via email address |
| Cliniko sync | core only + custom fields | core, referral & more + custom fields |
| iPad kiosk check-in | ||
| Price | included with Cliniko | separate subscription |
Want the full comparison? Read Finger-Ink vs Cliniko native forms: which should your clinic use? →
Luke Anthony runs a three-physio clinic without a receptionist. He tried Google Forms, dismissed Cliniko’s native forms for having no logic and no branding, and left a competing all-in-one platform because the patient-facing forms looked, in his words, terrible.
He found Finger-Ink in the Cliniko connected apps directory eight years ago. He hasn’t logged into the Finger-Ink portal in six months. There hasn’t been anything to fix.
I’d rather pay for two specialist subscriptions than put a clunky form in front of a patient.
— Luke Anthony, Owner & Principal Physiotherapist, Richmond RehabSebastian Swarbreck built PHYX with a deliberate market position: premium clinical experience, accessible price point. Cliniko’s native forms didn’t deliver the look and feel his clinic needed. He found Finger-Ink in the Cliniko integrations directory, set it up in about an hour, and sent a test form to a physiotherapist friend. The friend emailed back calling it a standout differentiator. Sebastian committed on the spot.
He now considers Finger-Ink a competitive advantage he’d rather his competitors didn’t discover.
Finger-Ink helps us deliver that premium experience right from the start.
— Sebastian Swarbreck, CEO & Co-Founder, PHYX PhysiotherapyStart a free trial. Syncs with Cliniko in under an hour. No credit card required.
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