The architecture

Eight parts that keep a clinic moving.

QLive isn't a big hospital information system. It does one job — moving patients through your clinic in the right order, with everybody informed, and every one of them given a time rather than a number — and it does that job completely.

01 · The difference

The promise engine

Every other queue product tells a patient their position. A position is useless — it does not tell you whether to sit down or go home. QLive tells them a time, and it is a time the clinic can actually keep.

It works because QLive learns how long consultations really take in your clinic. Not an average of all clinics. Yours — per doctor, and per kind of visit, because a vaccination is not a first consultation. After a week of use it knows your rhythm better than your own estimate.

  • A clock time, not a position. "Dr. Rai will see you at 6:42" is something a patient can plan around.
  • It re-promises itself. When the doctor runs over, every waiting patient's time is recalculated and re-sent. Nobody has to be told twice.
  • It keeps score. Promise Kept % is the one number that says whether your clinic is running honestly. You can show it to patients.
  • It learns per doctor. A doctor who runs long is planned for, not apologised for.
What the patient sees
12:47
until your turn
Expected at 6:42 pm
86%
promises kept
7.4m
learned consult time

No other clinic queue product in India makes a promise it then measures itself against.

02 · Waiting room

The display that stops the questions

Mount any TV, monitor or old laptop in the waiting area and open one URL. From that moment your queue is public information — the current token, the room, and who's up next.

  • Readable from the back of the room. Oversized numerals, high contrast, designed to be legible at a distance.
  • Updates the instant the desk advances. No refresh button, no lag between the counter and the screen.
  • Shows the next two tokens. People know to start walking before their number is called.
  • Runs on your local network. On Basic it keeps working even if the internet drops.
  • A QR on the screen itself. Anyone in the waiting room points a camera at the TV and gets their own live page — their token, how many are ahead, and the time the doctor will see them. Sized to scan from across the room.
Now serving
42
Room 2 · Dr. Rai
Up next
43
Then
44
03 · Reception

A desk your staff can't get wrong

The single biggest reason queue systems fail in Indian clinics is that reception quietly stops using them. So we built a dashboard with almost nothing on it.

  • Two primary actions. Add patient. Call next. Everything else is a detail on the same screen.
  • Add a patient in about five seconds. Name and phone number, and the token is generated and messaged.
  • The full queue, always visible. Who's in, who's next, who's been waiting longest.
  • Multi-device sync on Pro and Premium. Two counters, two screens, one queue that never disagrees with itself.
Staff training takes one sitting. If your receptionist can use WhatsApp, they can run QLive.
QLive Desk Synced
Now serving
42 Sharma, A.FOLLOW-UP · Dr. Rai
  • #43Verma, R.NEW
  • #44Khan, S.REPORT
  • #45Gupta, M.FOLLOW-UP
  • #46Ansari, F.NEW
Add patient Call next →
04 · Patient communication

The messages that empty your waiting room

Every patient in India already has WhatsApp open. That's the entire distribution strategy — no app, no signup, no explaining.

On check-in

Confirms the token in writing, so nobody loses a paper slip or misremembers their number.

3 spots away

The message that does the real work. Patients wait at home, in the car or at the chemist and still arrive on time.

Your turn

No name shouted across a full room. Sent the moment reception advances the queue.

Templates in your voice

We configure the wording, the clinic name and the language during setup — English, Hindi or a mix of both.

No per-message charge

Messaging is covered by the ₹2,000/month maintenance. A busier week doesn't mean a bigger bill.

Patients can reply

Replies land on your clinic's WhatsApp like any other message — so a patient running late can just tell you.

05 · Patient side

A live page, on any phone, with nothing to install

Patients tap the link in their WhatsApp message — or type their phone number on the counter screen — and see exactly where they stand.

  • Their token, the current token, and the gap between them.
  • An honest wait estimate based on how fast the queue is actually moving today.
  • Updates by itself. No pull-to-refresh, no stale numbers.
  • Built light so it loads on an old phone and a weak signal.
Rai Clinic · Lucknow
Your token
45
42
now serving
~14m
est. wait
Live
07 · Analytics · Pro & Premium

Finally, real numbers about your own clinic

Most clinics run on a feeling — "Tuesdays are heavy", "evenings are worse". QLive turns that feeling into a chart you can staff against.

Daily patient volume

How many patients you actually saw each day, not how many were booked. The gap between those two numbers is usually the most useful thing on the dashboard.

  • Day, week and month views
  • Per-doctor breakdown on Premium
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Charts shown here are illustrative examples of the dashboard layout. Your figures come entirely from your own clinic's activity from day one.
The counter

The money and the history, taken once

The thirty seconds a patient spends at your desk is the only chance you get to collect the fee and find out what is actually wrong. QLive uses both.

The fee, settled properly

One screen shows what is owed, a QR the patient can scan, and how it was taken. No second window, no calculator, no arguing about the amount.

  • Your fee, set by you. Change it from the desk whenever you like. Professional lets you charge differently for a follow-up than for a first consultation, and differently per doctor.
  • A QR with the amount already in it. Your own UPI ID, your money, no gateway and no commission. The patient scans and approves — they never type a number, so they never pay the wrong one.
  • Cash, UPI or card, recorded. At closing time you know exactly what should be in the drawer and what went to the bank.
  • Concessions without a fight. Type a different amount for one patient. Premium adds a proper waiver, kept out of your takings so the books still reconcile.

What the doctor wants to know

A name and a phone number tells a doctor nothing. QLive asks the questions that save the first two minutes of every consultation.

  • The complaint, in the patient's words — and a free-text box for whatever does not fit a form.
  • How long, what they are already taking, what they are allergic to, and whether they have been to somebody else about it. Professional and above.
  • Every question has an escape hatch. Real answers are never quite one of the options, so every list ends in “Something else…” and opens a text box.
  • Premium clinics write their own questions. Insurance number, referring hospital, whatever your practice needs. It appears on the intake form immediately.

None of this needs us. Fees, UPI details and the questions themselves live in a Settings page your receptionist can open. A clinic that has to ring its software company to change its own consultation fee is a clinic that will ring every week.

06 · Appointments

Booking from home, without giving up your counter

Patients pick a slot from their phone. Nothing is confirmed until your reception says so, and nobody joins the queue until the fee is paid at your desk — exactly the way your clinic already works.

Patient

They ask

Open a link, enter a mobile number, pick a doctor and a free slot. No app, no account, no password. The number is the whole identity — so their history is already there next time.

Reception

You decide

Requests land in an inbox. Accept it, decline it with a reason, or suggest a different time — which bounces back to the patient to accept or refuse. The diary stays yours.

On arrival

They pay, then queue

A booking reserves a slot, not a token. The token is issued when they arrive and pay at your counter — and they enter the queue at the position their slot earned them, not at the back.

No payment gateway. Ever.

Online booking usually means online payment, which means a merchant account, settlement delays and a cut of every consultation. QLive skips all of it. The booking holds the slot; the money is collected at the counter in cash, UPI, or whatever you already use. Nothing about how you get paid changes.

  • No merchant account, no KYC, no settlement wait.
  • No commission. QLive never touches your money.
  • An "Expected today" list shows who is booked and still owes the fee, sorted by their slot.

And it cannot be spammed

An open booking form is an invitation to abuse — anyone could request every slot and shut a doctor's day down. QLive is built so that cannot happen.

  • A request holds no slot. Only a booking your reception has accepted comes off the calendar. Unanswered requests can never block a real patient.
  • One live request per number, and a cooling-off period after a decline.
  • The number must prove itself. One tap sends you a coded WhatsApp message from the patient's own phone. Verified requests are confirmed first.
  • Two no-shows and online booking closes for that number. Your desk can block a number outright, and undo it.

The bit clinics ask about first: if a booked patient does not arrive within an hour of their slot, the slot is released automatically and they are told why. You are never holding time for somebody who is not coming.

Under the hood

Where each plan actually runs

Hosting is the real difference between the tiers — not just how many features are switched on.

Basic · Local network

Runs inside your clinic. Fast, private, and resilient to internet outages — but accessible only from the premises.

Pro · Standard cloud

Hosted for you. Check your clinic's queue and analytics from your phone or laptop, wherever you are.

Premium · Isolated cloud

Your own dedicated infrastructure, separate from every other clinic, with CSV export and priority engineering support.

See it running before you decide.

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