pockt

What pockt does

pockt Pty Ltd is an Australian private company founded in 2020 that operates a unified video meetings platform targeted at professionals and their clients. The product consolidates four discrete workflows — booking, scheduling, in-meeting payments, and video conferencing — into a single browser- and mobile-based service accessible via the pockt.com.au website, native iOS/iPadOS and Android apps, and Chrome and Firefox browser extensions. The platform originated from a telehealth background but is explicitly positioned to serve all professional categories (e.g., health, finance, advisory, consulting) rather than only clinicians.

The underlying architecture supports two meeting modalities: anonymous free meetings that are auto-disposed within one hour and require no account, and authenticated scheduled meetings with retained records, screen and document sharing, and integrated payment collection. Payments are processed via Stripe, with pockt applying a flat 5% transaction fee and remitting the net amount weekly to the professional's nominated bank account. A premium subscription tier is referenced in the Terms of Use but its pricing is not publicly disclosed. The platform has no public or partner-facing API, no disclosed AI/ML capabilities, and depends on third-party providers (Stripe for payments; Google/Firebase and Crashlytics for analytics and crash reporting; Google, Facebook and Microsoft for federated sign-in).

Go-to-market is product-led and self-serve: users sign up directly via the website or app marketplaces, and free anonymous meetings function as the top-of-funnel acquisition vehicle. Revenue is generated primarily through the 5% take-rate on paid consultations, supplemented by the undisclosed premium subscription. No funding rounds, acquisitions, named enterprise customers, or institutional investors are disclosed. The company has stated a social-impact intent to keep the service free for at-risk Australians via partnerships with social organisations, though specific partner names are not disclosed.

Name

pockt

Legal name

pockt Pty Ltd

Website

https://pockt.com.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

pockt Pty Ltd is an Australian company that operates a video meetings platform combining booking, scheduling, Stripe-based payments, and video conferencing for professionals (health, finance, advisory) and their clients, monetizing via a 5% transaction fee and an undisclosed premium subscription.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Video Conferencing Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Vertical-Specific POS Financing (e.g., Healthcare, Auto, Home Improvement) (FSAGAIAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Marketplace / Multi-Lender POS Financing Aggregators (FSAGAIAJ)

Keywords

• Video conferencing platform
• Video meeting software
• Online consultation platform
• Professional booking system
• Integrated payment processing

Headquarters

HQ city

Australia (unspecified city)

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Transaction fee on consultations: Flat 5% fee per consultation; pockt collects the session fee from the client, deducts the pockt fee, and transfers the net weekly to the professional's nominated bank account.
2. Premium subscription: Premium subscription tier available beyond the free service (specific pricing not publicly disclosed).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

pockt provides a unified video meetings platform that combines booking, scheduling, in-meeting payments, and video conferencing into a single workflow for professionals (e.g., health, finance, advisory, consultants) and their clients. The platform supports both anonymous free meetings (auto-disposed within an hour) and authenticated scheduled consultations with Stripe-backed payment collection, screen/document sharing, and weekly payouts to professionals. It is accessible via iOS/iPadOS, Android, Chrome, and Firefox clients and originates from a telehealth background with stated intent to serve all professional categories.

Product overview

pockt offers a single unified video meetings platform — pockt Video Meetings — rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture with separately priced add-ons. Around the core meeting experience (anonymous free meetings, scheduled meetings, screen and document sharing), pockt bundles a professional-facing My Dashboard and My Profile for business setup, a public Business Profile listing, native iOS/iPadOS and Android mobile apps for clients, Chrome and Firefox browser extensions for quick meeting launch, and built-in Stripe-based payment processing that deducts a flat 5% fee and remits weekly to the professional.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• pockt Video Meetings Unified video conferencing platform that enables professionals to meet clients from any device. Supports anonymous free meetings (auto-disposed within an hour) and authenticated scheduled meetings with optional integrated payment collection, screen and document sharing, and retained meeting records.
• pockt Mobile App (iOS/iPadOS and Android) Native mobile applications for clients (and professionals on the go) to book appointments, view which professionals are online, and join paid video consultations with professionals via the pockt platform.
• pockt Browser Extensions (Chrome and Firefox) Browser extensions that allow users to launch or join pockt video meetings directly from Chrome and Firefox, broadening cross-device access to the platform.

Quantifiable outcome

• 5% flat transaction fee on consultation value, with weekly payout of net amount
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• StripecoreTechnology or IntegrationStripe is the payment gateway used by pockt to process consultation payments. pockt collects the session fee from the client, deducts its fee, and transfers the net weekly amount to the professional's nominated bank account.
• GooglecoreTechnology or IntegrationGoogle is integrated as a federated sign-in option on the pockt login page, enabling users to sign in with their Google account. Google Play Services and Google Analytics for Firebase are also used as third-party service providers per the Terms.
• Google (Firebase / Crashlytics)coreTechnology or Integrationpockt uses Google Play Services, Google Analytics for Firebase, and Firebase Crashlytics as third-party service providers to support app analytics and crash reporting.
• Social organisations (target partners)minorGTM or Marketing Partnerpockt states an intent to partner with social organisations to connect at-risk Australians with help free of charge; specific named partners are not disclosed.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Acuity Scheduling: Acuity Scheduling combines appointment booking with integrated payments and is widely used by consultants, coaches, and health practitioners. It overlaps directly with pockt's booking-plus-payments wedge and targets the same SMB professional customer.
• Calendly: Calendly is a leading scheduling platform that professionals use alongside video conferencing and payment tools. It competes with pockt's integrated booking workflow and represents the unbundled alternative to pockt's all-in-one approach.
• Practice Better: Practice Better is a practice management platform for health and wellness professionals that includes scheduling, video, and payments. It competes head-on with pockt in the telehealth-adjacent segment pockt's founders came from.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams is a broad incumbent in video meetings with deep enterprise distribution via Microsoft 365. It is not optimized for the SMB professional consultation flow pockt targets but competes for the same end-user attention and scheduling/payment adjacencies.
• Zoom Video Communications: Zoom is the dominant general-purpose video conferencing platform and the most direct reference point for pockt's core meeting capability. pockt differentiates via integrated booking and payments but is materially smaller and lacks Zoom's enterprise distribution, compliance certifications, and ecosystem.
• Google Meet: Google Meet is a broad incumbent offering free browser-based video meetings bundled with Google Workspace. Like pockt, it offers a low-friction meeting experience and is a default alternative for pockt's prospective users.

Direct peers

• Doxy.me: Doxy.me is a browser-based telehealth video platform built for clinician-patient consultations, sharing pockt's telehealth pedigree and its focus on a simple, no-install meeting workflow for professionals. Both target regulated professional-client use cases with integrated payments.
• Whereby: Whereby offers browser-based video meetings with no downloads required, closely matching pockt's lightweight, cross-platform meeting UX. Like pockt it targets professionals and small businesses and monetizes via subscriptions, making it a close functional peer.

Regional players

• Square Appointments: Square Appointments combines online booking, payments, and client management for service-based professionals, overlapping with pockt's professional consultation wedge. It is more retail/SMB-skewed but targets the same professionals in a different geography.

Others

• Stripe (as integrated payments): Stripe is both pockt's embedded payments partner and an alternative monetization path for professionals. It is a critical infrastructure dependency and a benchmark for what professionals can do with payment tools outside pockt's wrapper.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pockt

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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