Open Reception

Open Reception at a glance

Open Reception is an open-source platform for online appointment booking that organizations can run themselves. Its focus is privacy: appointments and the associated data are end-to-end encrypted, making the software an alternative to cloud-based booking services. Medical practices, public bodies and institutions with high confidentiality requirements use it to set up their own booking page.

Implemented as a web application, the software is actively developed; new editions appear as numbered releases in the official repository, including regular security releases. Because the application handles personal appointment data, updates should be applied promptly.

Administrators should back up before an update and read the release notes. These name the vulnerabilities fixed, any changes to the database or configuration, and whether further steps are needed after applying. For an encrypted application in particular, it makes sense to follow new versions consistently.