Free microchips aren’t really free. Your customers pay the price – and so does your reputation.
Recently, we’ve heard from numerous customers being offered ‘free’ microchips. While these offers might seem attractive, there are hidden costs that could damage your practice’s reputation and leave pet owners frustrated with unexpected fees.
Here’s what’s really happening…
The Hidden Costs Behind 'Free' Microchips
Hidden Annual Fees: £15-£30 Per Pet just to register
When a microchip provider gives you free microchips, it’s your customers that end up paying. These providers charge anywhere from £15 – £30 a year to just register the microchip. This means the customer is paying you to implant the microchip AND then paying to register the microchip.
We hear from hundreds of pet owners who are seeking a better option than these high priced basic registration services.
Check out this review left recently about one of the companies that give microchips away
Lower Registration Rates Mean More Lost Pets
When a microchip comes with a high fee just to register the microchip, this leads to unregistered microchips and in turn leads to lost pets taking longer to be reunited and at times not reunited.
Quality Issues: 30+ Failure Points vs. Our 6
Over the last few years, we’ve heard from many pet owners and microchip customers that they’re seeing more and more “microchip failures”.
We believe this is due to poor quality microchips. Many of the free microchips supplied today come from low quality Asian manufacturers. These microchips are manufactured on human production lines and can have over 30 points of failure due to this. These failure points can be seen in the number of verified microchip failures we hear about.
What's the better option?
We believe that most microchip customers are more than happy to pay a fair price for microchips as long as their customers get great customer service, the microchip is of high quality and microchips can be easily registered. Here’s how we can help with that.
Always an option to register, update and transfer MyPet Microchips free of charge
When you choose MyPet Microchips, there is always an option to register, update and transfer MyPet microchips completely free of charge. For those customers that want more features and options we do have plans available, but they’re completely optional.
This gives your customers the best of both worlds, for those customers who just want their microchip registered and nothing more that’s free! For those customers who want a premium service with extra peace of mind we have plans for that! You can learn more about our pet owner plans HERE.
Did we mention we have different options to register microchips. You can do it for your customers on our website, we have integrations with veterinary practice management systems and Rescue platforms and pet owners can register their own microchips!
We have a MUCH higher rate of registration
92% of our microchips are registered within 3 months of being implanted. Based on our data, this is around 28% higher than databases who charge just to register a microchip. This means more pets get home safe and less time wasted by veterinary teams and animal rescues. (Note: The figures include all microchip registration routes, i.e. Practice Management system registration, MyVet registration and pet owner self) registration
German engineered microchips
We are the exclusive supplier of Trovan microchips in the UK. Trovan is a global leader in microchip technology supplying millions of microchips in 100 countries globally every year.
Trovan microchips are made in Germany, with the entire supply chain in Europe. They are made in a fully automated production line. A Trovan microchip has only 6 points of failure compared to Asia made microchips which have around 30. You can learn more HERE.
Want excellent quality microchips with lifetime guarantees AND an option where it’s always free to register update and transfer a pet?
You can try with our samples before committing!
