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About extension
The Helcim Payment Extension brings Helcim's transparent interchange-plus pricing directly into PracticeQ, letting clinics process patient payments with lower, honest rates — no hidden fees, no monthly charges — so providers spend less on processing and more time on care.
The Helcim Payment Extension is an independent productivity tool designed to help you work more efficiently across your favorite platforms. Please note that this extension is not a direct API integration and is not officially sponsored, authorized, or endorsed by PracticeQ or the third-party software providers it supports. Instead, it acts as a smart bridge in your browser, automating the manual entry of your Helcim payment data into other apps to save you time. We are proud to offer this innovative solution to give you more flexibility and choice in how you manage your business data!
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Assured HIPAA Compliance
Process payments confidently knowing your clinic's PHI is protected. Download Helcim's HIPAA Management Assertion now to see how we ensure compliance.
Features
Process patient payments—appointments, private invoices, co-pays, and outstanding balances—directly inside PracticeQ without exporting billing data or leaving the EMR.
Reduce double entry and manual updates—payments flow through Helcim while your administrative staff stays in PracticeQ.
Helcim safeguards patient payment data with PCI compliance, tokenization, and a rigorous HIPAA compliance program backed by annual audits—ensuring secure, fast, and reliable checkout.
Keep more of your revenue with Helcim's transparent interchange-plus pricing.
How it works with Helcim
The Helcim Payment Extension enables payments to be processed through Helcim while PracticeQ continues to manage scheduling, intake forms, charting, billing, and patient records. Transactions sync into Helcim for reporting and deposits, while your records remain in PracticeQ. Refunds or adjustments made outside PracticeQ may require manual updates, and invoice currency must match your Helcim account currency. This lets you replace PracticeQ's default payment processor with Helcim's lower-cost solution while keeping your existing workflow intact.
Requirements
Setup
Create a free Helcim account. If you already have one, you can skip this step.
Create a free Helcim account. If you already have one, you can skip this step.
Follow the guide that appears after downloading the extension. It will prompt you to log in to your Helcim account to sync the extension, and then select a currency.
If you have a Card Reader Gen 3 or Smart Terminal, you can pair it by copy-pasting your 4-digit device code onto your Payment Extensions tab in PracticeQ.
FAQs
Yes — Helcim's interchange-plus pricing is typically lower than PracticeQ's default payment processor, reducing your transaction costs. Helcim also has no monthly fees.
Yes — you can connect Helcim with PracticeQ using the Payment Extension, letting you take payments for invoices, appointments, and outstanding balances directly through the platform.
You get lower fees, the ability to process card-present transactions, faster workflows, and reduced manual reconciliation across your invoices.