Strategies
Practical plays for a growing practice.
SmilePass is a toolset. These are the plays our most successful practices run with it. Start with the essentials, then dig into the membership and payment-plan strategies that match the problem you're trying to solve.
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The essentials to get right before running any of the plays below.
Getting Started
The practices that launch memberships and payment plans most smoothly all do the same thing first: they learn the platform before going live.
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Example Dental Membership Plans: Inclusions and Pricing You Can Copy
Six ready-to-copy ways to structure dental membership plans — by clinical risk, treatment pathway, value, household, loyalty and hygienist-led care — with example inclusions, ADA item numbers and pricing you can adapt to your practice.
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Build predictable recurring revenue and lock in patient relationships.
How to Build Risk-Based Membership Tiers in SmilePass
A step-by-step guide to building risk-based dental membership tiers in SmilePass — scaling cleans, exams and recalls to clinical risk, with example inclusions and pricing you can adapt.
Read the playHow to Build Treatment-Pathway Membership Plans in SmilePass
How to build treatment-pathway dental membership plans in SmilePass — preventive, perio, ortho retention, cosmetic and implant maintenance — with example inclusions you can adapt.
Read the playHow to Build a Hygienist-Led Membership Plan in SmilePass
How to build a hygienist-led dental membership plan in SmilePass — preventive cleans, advice, fluoride and sealants within scope, with example inclusions and pricing.
Read the playHow to Build Good-Better-Best Membership Tiers in SmilePass
How to build a good-better-best dental membership ladder in SmilePass — Essential, Standard and Premium tiers — with example inclusions, pricing and discounts you can adapt.
Read the playHow to Build Family and Household Discounts in SmilePass
How SmilePass handles family and household memberships — a per-dependent discount percentage that accumulates for the account holder, plus a referral discount, with worked examples.
Read the playHow to Build Loyalty Membership Tiers in SmilePass
How to build loyalty and lifecycle membership tiers in SmilePass — reward longer-staying members with better discounts, price locks and perks, moved up manually as they qualify.
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How to Set Up Good-Better-Best Fee Schedules in Your Practice Software
Set up one fee schedule per membership tier in your practice software — prevention, fillings and major dental — so good-better-best discounts apply automatically.
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How to Pay Dentists on Membership Patients
Paying dentists on membership patients works like any other fee schedule — your practice software calculates each dentist's commission proportionally, automatically.
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How to set up a discount-only annual dental membership
A step-by-step guide to building an annual, discount-only dental membership in SmilePass: leave the included treatments out and let the discount tiers carry the value.
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