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CrystalSolutions, PraxisClinic & SoleTrader — what’s new in 2026
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Most Business or Practice management software asks you to make a choice: convenience or control.
Although Cloud software is convenient — log in from anywhere, nothing to install, your client business or patient records live on someone else’s servers, under someone else’s terms, subject to someone else’s data breaches and usually on a recurring subscription model tying you in.
Our Local no subscription affordable (£40-£65) 1-off price software gives you control — your data stays on your own machine or server accessible at home, from a second office or clinic, or on the road.
The good news is there are several ways to run our database software — from a simple local install on your own computer right through to your own private server accessible from anywhere in the world.All hosted software carries some risk — but our optional included field-level encryption means that even if the server is compromised, sensitive records remain unreadable. For Businessses, sole traders, self-employed projects and practitioners in regulated or sensitive sectors like legal, health accounting etc, that’s the difference between a data breach and a near-miss.
Here’s a quick guide to the options.
Your own private server — practice & business software accessible from anywhere
Non-SaaS No Subscription Software
Holistic Business & Practice Management Software SiteMap
Financial Flow — how it all connects
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June 2026
just completed a task i’ve been wanting to do for ages;
cataloguing the bookcases — used photos & claude and got it done in a couple of hours!
not bad for 15 bookcases >700 books = which would have taken ages in old skool pen paper
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nice wee app — take a look
if you want a free copy to catalogue your own books (&CDs)
visit or share Bookbinder for more info and to download
there is also now a £10 version called ShelfMate where you photograph your bookshelves and record stacks with your phone, upload to Claude AI, and ShelfMate builds you a searchable catalogue of your entire collection — books, vinyl LPs, CDs and more.
It includes Everything in BookBinder +Genre field — sort & filter by genre +Batch edit by category, sub-cat & genre +Condition grading +Wishlist +Export to CSV +🎲 Random pick +Purchase value +Last read/played date
A quick guide to getting your photos ready so Claude can catalogue your library accurately — first time for BookBinder & ShelfMate
find that book or cd — where is that cd? (we recently moved and our shelves became somewhat mixed up. so a few photos here and there and voila we have a searchable catalogue of over 1000 titles – all done in < a day!)
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herewith a Five Elements & Astrology Profile Calculator as a free showcase for our 5 elements module in our practice mananagement software — simply enter a date of birth to generate a constitutional profile drawn from Chinese, western and Indian traditions.
or for more info visit Five Elements & Astrology — a constitutional profile for every patient
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We’ve just produced some Easy Install versions of our business and practice software that uses Docker — a free tool that packages everything the software needs (web server, database, PHP) into a single self-contained bundle. You don’t need to know anything about servers or databases. Just install Docker Desktop once on your Mac or PC, then double-click to start
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early May 2026
just released our latest holistic Business software SoleTrader
Business Management for Self-Employed Professionals
Clients, projects, invoicing, mileage and Self Assessment — plus a Holistic Impact score for every client relationship. Because the best businesses track more than money.
One-off £45 price · No subscriptions · Install on your own computer or shared hosting or your own web-page server
Built for the workers!! the consultant with a side project, the photographer who also teaches, the designer/farmer who cares where their work ends up. One system for all your ventures — and all your values.
“Business management with soul.”
TAKE A LOOK try out the working demo (no install necessary)
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April 2026
We’ve recently completely upgraded our Holistic Alternative Practice Management Software for Osteopaths, Chiropractors, Acupuncturists, Homoeopaths, Physiotherapists, Herbalists and similar complementary independent therapists & practitioners.
It was designed to augment detailed written case histories and allow speedy input at the end of the day.
One of its major features is the ability to quality audit where you can drill down and search any of the fields of info to see outcomes by getting a list of relevant patients before referring then to the detailed written case histories which can only be searched alphabetically.
Based on our original Crystalsolutions software developed and used by ourselves for > over 20 years (originally made in Filemaker this new modern release is simply used in your web browser and installed on a Practice’s or Practitioner’s intranet keeping patient data safe and secure)
Built by practitioners, for practitioners. See if you like it by using the free online working demo (no install necessary as it is the actual software in action)
If it floats your boat….Install it, try it, buy it when you’re ready.
It is a no subscription try b4 you buy; one-off purchase for you to keep (£65)
There is a demo you can try online with dummy patient records, where you can get to know it and create your own dummy records – no installation required for the demo – just a form to get login details
visit https://soul-trade.com/software.html
It’s deliberately low cost for cash-strapped practitioners because it is an intraweb installation that might require help from friends although we do provide full installation guides
Not technical? Don’t be put off. The installation only needs to be done once. If the steps look daunting, ask a tech-savvy friend, a local IT person, or a student — it’s a straightforward 30–45 minute job for anyone comfortable with computers. Once it’s running, day-to-day use requires no technical knowledge at all.
What to ask for:“I need PHP, MySQL and a web server installed on this Mac / PC / NAS / Raspberry Pi and a local folder set up as a website.”
more info at https://praxisclinic.co.uk and http://www.crystalsolutions.org/
and https://soul-trade.com/cspractice/features.html
UPDATE we now provide an easy-install for less techy folks that allows you to install on PC or Mac or NAS (Network Attached Storage) see Easy-Install
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+ earlier posts & more info
March 2026
just updated Matthew’s Switch a simple customisable program that may allow parents, teachers and helpers to play with young children &/or to introduce and practice simple switch choices and evaluate whether a disabled child could eventually make use of one of the more advanced and expensive systems
good feedback from Matthew — he’s been laughing at the animal sounds!!
try it out on any youngsters you know
feedback appreciated
version 2 of Matthew’s Switch just uploaded
no install needed = it runs in your browser
still a simple customisable program allowing parents, teachers & helpers to play with young children &/or introduce & practice simple switch choices
give it a try!
find the elephant?
which animal made that noise?
some version notes
v1 matthews-switch.html— the clean, simple version for helpers who just want tap-a-card-plays-sound without the name announcement
v2 matthews-switchv2.html — the fuller version with row scanning, per-mode speeds, pause-on-selection, favourites set, and name-before-sound
Both sharing the same card content via localStorage, so any edits you make to cards in one version carry across automatically — which is a nice bonus.
https://soul-trade.com/matthews-switchv2.html
Good site, easy to navigate although get distracted looking at all the random pictures!
thx, and yes also some of the pictures are a little large and the user then needs to scroll down, but some of the pics are well worth keeping to a good scale; as always it’s a trade-off