For private-pay counseling practices
Never bring up money
in session again.
Tally keeps track of what each client owes and shows it to them in their own portal — so the fifty minutes stay about the work, not about an unpaid balance.
$29.99 a therapist — capped at $99.99 for the whole office.
You trained to be a therapist.
Then you became the billing department.
A client is three sessions behind. You have two options, and you already know both of them. Spend part of the hour on it — the hour they came to you for something else entirely — or let it slide again and carry it yourself.
Neither one is good. The first costs the session; the second costs you. And the longer it goes, the more awkward the conversation gets for both of you.
The fix isn't a better script. It's making the balance something your client can already see, so nobody has to raise it.
How it works
01
They see their own balance
Every client gets a portal with their past visits, what's been paid, and what's outstanding. No invoice to chase down, no email to send, no reason to bring it up in the room.
02
You see who's behind
One screen: every client, their next session, and what they owe. You know before they walk in, instead of finding out three months later.
03
Booking that fits how you work
Book a standing slot — same time, weekly or every other week, for a set number of sessions. Skip a week, move one session, or move the whole slot. It asks which you meant.
Pricing
$29.99 a therapist. Never more than $99.99.
One price, everything included — no tiers to compare and no features held back for a plan above yours. A solo practice pays $29.99 a month. A group practice pays $29.99 each until the bill hits $99.99, and then it stops. Four therapists or twelve, $99.99 is the ceiling for the whole office.
That ceiling is the part worth reading twice. Practice management software is priced per clinician and keeps climbing — at $49 to $99 each, a four-person practice is paying two to four hundred dollars a month. Here it stops at one hundred.
When a client pays for a session through Tally, they pay a flat $5 alongside it — itemized, visible before they pay, the same amount every time. It doesn't come out of your fee. You keep your full rate, including the rates you set low on purpose.
And a client who's short this week can split a session into payments instead of quietly falling behind. That's the same problem as the balance nobody wants to raise, caught one step earlier — they choose a smaller payment rather than choosing to say nothing.
- Your practice pays
- $29.99per therapist / month
Capped at $99.99 for the whole office, however many of you there are.
- Your client pays
- $5per session
Shown as its own line before they pay. Splittable into instalments.
Where this actually is
Tally is being built right now, by one person, in the open. Rather than describe features that don't exist yet:
Working today
- Counselor dashboard with balances
- Client portal — visits, balance, upcoming
- Recurring booking, skip and reschedule
- Separate logins for counselor and client
Not built yet
- Card payments, and splitting a session into instalments
- Text message reminders
- Insurance billing — planned, for a later release
- A signed BAA, so no real client data yet
On insurance: Tally starts with private pay because that's where the current tools fit worst, but insurance billing is on the roadmap for a later release. If your practice is part private pay and part insurance, you won't be stranded here.
And the BAA matters most: until one is in place, please don't put real client information into Tally. Early access means early — you'll see it before it's ready, and what you say will change what gets built next.
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