Integrations/API

Hi Dentally Team, I hope you’re well I’m Ahmad co-founder of Clero, an AI Receptionist for dental practices. We have requested access through this form a few months ago https://www.dentally.com/en-gb/integrations/become-a-partner, and I’ve resubmitted again today since we didn’t hear back the first time.Do you know when we can hear back to become official partners? Many thanks,Ahmad Abdelaal

Hi,We're running a sync against the Dentally API and hit a problem we'd like your advice on.We were authenticating with a personal access token. The user that token belonged to was deleted, and our sync stopped working.We looked at using application tokens instead, but /oauth/token/info shows a user_id, so those appear to be tied to a specific user as well.Two questions:If the user who authorised an application is deleted, is that application token also invalidated? Is there a way to authenticate that isn't tied to an individual user, so the sync doesn't break when someone leaves the practice?Thanks

Our practice is in a town on the border of Milton Keynes (CMS) and Buckinghamshire, and as a result, we have patients who need to be referred with either FDS or Rego. We are unable to add more than one system into Dentally as the system seems to only accept one referral provider.

Hi, While probing the sandbox we found that GET /v1/deleted_items responds 200 and returns a paginated "deleted_items" collection — but it isn't in the public API reference. Could you clarify:- Is it officially supported, and safe to build on?- Which resource types can appear in it?- Is there a date filter (for example updated_after) so it can be polled incrementally?- Does an API key need a specific permission to read it? Thanks

I wanted to raise this as a feature request because the lack of meaningful tracking within Dentally Portal has become a major issue and restriction for practices using digital advertising.When patients move from our website into the hosted Portal, we lose visibility of what happens next. We cannot reliably track whether someone starts the booking process, selects an appointment, completes payment or confirms their booking.There is no practical way to add or meaningfully integrate GA4, Google Ads tracking, Google Tag Manager or Meta Pixel. The Portal also does not retain and pass through identifiers such as GCLID, GBRAID or WBRAID, which makes accurate attribution extremely difficult (and expensive)We have explored webhooks, Zapier and offline conversions, but there does not appear to be a reliable workaround. Without the original advertising identifier, bookings cannot be confidently connected to the advert or campaign that generated them. Matching using email addresses or telephone nu

I use Dentally API access to create custom reports, but have found v1 lacking in areas. I understand the “NexGen API” that has been promised for sometime has been released (congrats). When and how can we practice principals begin to use it? I can’t find the NexGen API documentation, and the v1 API documentation makes no mention of it as far as I can tell.

 Hi Dentally Team,We are working on DentPulse, and we're currently integrating with the Dentally API.We're using the Treatment Plan Item API to retrieve treatment data for reporting purposes.Our goal is to calculate the Total Amount exactly as it appears in the Practitioner Activity Report within Dentally. However, we're unable to determine how this value is derived from the API response.Could you please clarify the following?Is there a field in the Treatment Plan Item API (or its metadata) that represents the same Total Amount displayed in the Practitioner Activity Report? If not, what is the recommended approach to calculate this value so that it matches the report exactly? Are there any additional endpoints or related resources that should be used alongside the Treatment Plan Item API to reproduce the Practitioner Activity Report totals?Our objective is to ensure that the values displayed in our application match the Practitioner Activity Report in Dentally.Any guidance or best prac

Hi Dentally team,I submitted a partner / marketplace request for Aimee LLC on 2 July, but I haven’t received a confirmation or response yet.We’re building Aimee, an AI phone receptionist for dental practices. Aimee helps front-desk teams handle missed and after-hours calls, answer basic patient questions, and book or reschedule appointments directly in the practice management system.We would like to build the Dentally integration correctly and safely from day one, so I wanted to check:1. Has our partner request been received?2. Is there a way to get access to a Dentally sandbox practice for API testing?3. What is the correct process for API credentials and partner approval?For the first stage, read-only access to patients, appointments, practitioners, locations, and appointment types would be enough. Later, we would like to test appointment create/update/cancel in sandbox only.Company: Aimee LLCWebsite: [REDACTED]Contact: [REDACTED] / [REDACTED]Thanks,Aleksandr

HI Team,We are VoiceFleet an AI voice receptionist. We have requested a partnership request via this form  https://www.dentally.com/en-gb/integrations/become-a-partner to gain access to the Dentally API a couple of weeks ago and haven’t received a confirmation or response. Is there a way I can confirm the request has been received? Many thanksMariano

The xero integration is great and we were so relieved that this was a feature on Dentally, however since turning the xero integration on, we have since learnt it has some flaws.Payments can’t be amended - This is not realistic & as much as we’d like to ensure payments are added onto the patient’s account correctly, this is not always possible. Not being able to amend payments once they’ve been entered creates a huge issue.Daily automation - my suggestion is for there to be a delay with the uploading of the data from Dentally to Xero (even 48 hours). This will allow enough time for any amendments to be made & in order to ensure the accounts are correct.

Hello, when it comes to any change to the API, can there be communcation on either the community site or  the developer site of any change to API? as a recent example, there was some underlying changes made to the Appointments API on Monday (3rd November), which caused our ETL to timeout repeatedly.

Hi Dentally,When will we will be able to intergrate with Hot Doc? Thanks.

Hello, Is there a way to synchronize patients that are on the Short Notice List? I have checked the API documentation but could not find anything about it. Kind regards,Saimen

Hi Dentally Team,  I recently attended your stand at the Dentistry show. A team member named Blair actually rang me and told me to speak to rick gay in which I did.  My details were taken down and whilst I understand you’re very busy with a lot of requests, I’d really like this request to get seen to. Please let me know, Danny CEO 

The api docs have NHS and PPS number field for UK and Ireland but not one for Medicare (Australia) that i can see of. Coming from a legacy system which did not record medicare expiry date, the migration to Dentally meant the medicare number was inserted into notes, while the IRN (individual ref number) inserted into Health Fund Patient ID field. We are updating the Medicare number of patients and could not easily update it into the Medicare number field because of the lack of API endpoints. I hope this is in the works soon.

We have just started with Dentally and chose is specifically for the Xero integration.As a dental prosthetic clinic we have only a few items that include GST. When going over to Xero it seems to default as GST Exclusive, even for a day where no items with GST were charged. I can manually alter this in Xero but that seems clunky and not a true “integration”.A bigger problem I am having is a day where we did three transactions, two which were GST free and one that included GST but in Xero GST has been charged on the total which is not correct, and the only way I can see to fix it is to redo the invoice with the days transactions individually, but again this seems like a lot of manual work when it should just do it correctly in the first place. Has anyone had similar issues with the Xero integration?  How did you fix it or manage this?Thanks

HI Team,I have requested a partnership request via this form  https://www.dentally.com/en-gb/integrations/become-a-partner to gain access to the Dentally API a couple of weeks ago and haven’t received a confirmation or response. Is there a way I can confirm the request has been received? Many thanksTegan 

Dear Dentally team,I'm building a CRM and marketing tool on behalf of a client. Initially the client wants a simple feature that links a CRM contact record to a Dentally patient record (search by name/email/phone, store the patient ID, deep-link back into Dentally).The CRM is multi-tenant — the client is the first user, but other practices will sign up over time and connect their own Dentally accounts via OAuth. We'd like to design the integration correctly from day one.Could you advise on the following:Access & onboardingHow do we get access to the Dentally sandbox environment for development and automated testing? Is there a self-serve sign-up, or does someone on your side need to provision a sandbox practice for us? Do we (the CRM vendor) and/or our client need to be registered as a Dentally Partner? If so, what's the process, eligibility criteria, and rough timeline for approval?Many thanksPaul

Hi ThereI have built a voice AI receptionist designed for businesses including dental practices. It handles inbound calls, captures patient details, and manages appointment booking.We're exploring the integration with Dentally's API to support live appointment booking and availability checks for practices using Dentally. We'd love to discuss becoming an approved integration partner and understand the process for gaining access to a sandbox environment to begin development.We are also currently working with practices that serve NHS patients and would be keen to understand how Dentally supports NHS practices, particularly where it could be a stronger fit for their workflows alongside our AI receptionist.Would someone be able to point us in the right direction? Thanks!

We had been using Vantage Rego to send across NW London referrals for our NHS patients, this was integrated into dentally We have been told by the ICB that we need to use eRS now, they have requested details on a form to ask for the APIM id, what should we be adding here? If not how do we send referrals now?

Does anyone have a list of compatable terminals for use with Worldpay in order to integrate with Dentally i.e. send payments directly from Dentally to the card machine please? I have seen A920 Pro mentioned but it is still vague as to whether this would work. I was told if it had a screen then it should be ok. Of course I purchased one with a screen and it didn’t. A list of terminals that would work is impossible to find from the Dentally end unfortunatley so anything that is being used would really be appreciated. Thanks

Good morning everyone. We have an App that integrates with Dentally. We obtain a token at authentication. After 14 days the token expires and we need to ask our client to manually refresh the token. Is there a way to:Extend the to token lifetime (change “expires_in”) and/or refresh the token automatically ( POST grant_type=refresh_token)?Many thanks folks.

Hi there, I’m trying to create an appointment with Zapier. I can see this option in the screenshots on the help page but the option isn’t coming up in events? Please advise how I can do it so I create an appointment via zapier?

Hi Dentally Team,I recently signed up for the Dentally partnership programme as we’re looking to build an integration, but I haven’t heard back yet. I was in touch with Megan a couple of weeks ago about putting this through, so just wanted to follow up.I wanted to check on the status of the application and specifically request access to the sandbox environment so we can begin testing the API.We’re keen to get started with development and want to ensure everything is built correctly before going live.Thanks in advance — happy to provide any further details if needed. Thanks,Riyad

Hi,We’ve been using the Dentally API to power Dentext (our custom external patient communication platform). It handles our SMS routing, custom templates, and automated messaging beautifully but we’ve hit a specific challenge. We want to automatically text patients a link to complete their Medical History questionnaire prior to their appointment, exactly how it behaves natively in Dentally's SMS system. To do this, we need to inject that patient-specific link directly into our Dentext templates.Does anyone know how to retrieve or construct this unique link via the API? Is there a specific endpoint to request this token/link? Or is the URL structure predictable enough that we can build it programmatically using the patient_id or patient_uuid?I know we can use the practice portal link from Portal Admin > Customise, but that behaves differently. It forces the patient to register first, whereas the native Medical History link goes straight to the questionnaire after a simple Date of Birt