Comparison

Retain Dental vs Weave

Weave is a communications suite built around the front desk: VoIP phones, texting, appointment reminders, and payments, often paired with hardware.

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Where Weave wins

Weave is genuinely good at the phones. If you want one vendor for your phone system, texting, and reminders, it is a sensible choice.

Where Retain Dental wins

Weave stops at the front desk. Retain Dental follows the patient home: aftercare in your branded app, points they keep, family pooling, and referral rewards that bring new patients in.

Feature comparison

Capability Retain Dental Weave

Branded patient app (your logo and colours) Yes No

Aftercare checklists with adherence tracking Yes No

Loyalty points and membership tiers Yes No

Household points pooling for families Yes No

Referral rewards Yes No

Phone system (VoIP) No Yes

Two-way texting and reminders Yes Yes

In-app patient payments Yes Yes

Works alongside your PMS Yes Yes

Time to live About 20 minutes Varies with hardware install

Comparison reflects publicly available product information and may change. Verify current details with Weave directly.

Questions worth asking

Do I have to give up my phone system?

No. Retain Dental is not a phone system, so it does not replace Weave or your desk phones. It replaces the retention layer: aftercare, loyalty, and referrals.

Does Retain Dental do payments?

Yes. Patients can pay balances and treatment costs in your branded app, which reduces outstanding balances without extra hardware.

Give your patients a reason to come back, and a reason to bring a friend.

Start free, and watch aftercare turn into retention, reviews, and referrals, in weeks, not quarters.

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