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Why Your Practice Should Try FluoretiQ’s ROI Calculator Before Investing in Rapid UTI Testing

For most veterinary practices, adopting a new diagnostic tool is not just a clinical decision. It is also a practical one.

Will it fit into the way your team already works?
Will clients understand the value?
Will it save time?
And, importantly, will it make financial sense?

These are fair questions. Veterinary teams are already managing busy consults, rising client expectations, pressure around pricing, and the need to make responsible antimicrobial decisions. So before introducing any new technology, it helps to see the numbers clearly.

That is exactly why FluoretiQ created the ROI calculator.

Rather than asking practices to imagine the potential value of VERI-5® VET, the calculator helps you estimate what rapid in-clinic UTI testing could mean for your own practice using your own assumptions around test numbers, pricing, lab costs and monthly return.

The real value of knowing your numbers

When people talk about ROI, the conversation can quickly become purely financial. But in veterinary practice, return on investment is about more than revenue.

It is about time saved.
It is about fewer delays.
It is about better conversations with pet owners.
It is about giving clinical teams clearer information, sooner.

Traditional urine culture remains an important diagnostic method, but it can take 24–72 hours to return results. During that time, veterinary teams may need to make treatment decisions while still waiting for confirmation. FluoretiQ’s VERI-5® VET system is designed to support faster decision-making by identifying common veterinary uropathogens in around 15 minutes.

That speed has a clinical value. The ROI calculator helps practices understand the business value too.

Why this matters now

Pet owners are paying closer attention to veterinary costs than ever before. In the CMA’s Vet Users Survey Final Report prepared by Accent, 30% of pet owners reported spending over £1,000 on vet services in the previous two years.

The same report found that 72% said their pet’s healthcare was equal in importance to that of a family member, while 42% of final open-text comments related to cost issues such as overcharging or a perceived focus on profit.

That creates a challenge for practices: clients want high-quality care, but they also need clarity around cost and value.

This is where rapid diagnostics can help. A same-visit result can make the purpose of testing easier to explain. It can help clients see why a diagnostic step matters, what it may change, and how it supports a more informed treatment decision.

The ROI calculator takes that one step further by helping the practice understand whether the service is also commercially sustainable.

What the ROI calculator helps you see

FluoretiQ’s ROI calculator is designed to give practices a clearer picture of what VERI-5® VET could contribute in real terms.

It helps estimate areas such as:

potential margin per test
monthly net return
possible lab savings
estimated payback period
the impact of different testing volumes

Instead of working from a rough assumption, your team can model a scenario that reflects your own caseload and pricing structure.

That makes the calculator useful for practice owners, clinical directors, operations managers and anyone involved in deciding whether rapid in-clinic diagnostics are right for the practice.

It helps turn interest into a practical decision

Many veterinary teams are interested in faster diagnostics. The harder part is deciding when and how to introduce them.

A practice might already know that suspected UTIs are a regular part of the caseload. It might already send urine samples externally. It might already spend time following up on results, speaking to owners, reviewing treatment plans and managing uncertainty while waiting.

But until those steps are connected to numbers, it can be difficult to judge the full impact.

The ROI calculator gives practices a more grounded starting point.

It helps answer questions such as:

How many UTI cases do we see each month?
How many samples are we currently sending away?
What are we spending on external testing?
How much could we retain in-house?
How quickly could the system pay for itself?
What would the monthly return look like?

These are the questions that turn a potential investment into a confident decision.

A better conversation with clients

Rapid in-clinic testing can also support the way veterinary teams communicate with pet owners.

When a client is worried about their pet, waiting days for results can feel frustrating. It may also make the cost of diagnostics harder to understand, especially if the outcome feels distant from the consultation.

A rapid result can help make the value of testing more immediate.

Instead of saying, “We’ll send this away and wait for the result,” the conversation can become more direct:

“We can run this in practice today and use the result to help guide the next step.”

That kind of clarity matters. It supports trust, helps owners understand the reason for testing, and gives the clinical team more information at the point of care.

Supporting smarter clinical and commercial decisions

FluoretiQ’s wider mission is not simply to make diagnostics faster. It is to help clinicians and veterinary teams make better decisions, sooner supporting more precise treatment, smarter spending and responsible antibiotic use.

The ROI calculator fits into that mission because it gives practices a simple way to explore the value of innovation before committing to it.

It does not replace clinical judgement.
It does not tell every practice what to do.
It simply helps each practice see what rapid UTI testing could look like in their own setting.

And that is the point.

Every practice is different. Caseloads differ. Pricing differs. Lab use differs. Workflows differ. The calculator helps make the decision specific to you.