Less time on day-to-day admin = more time to spend with your favourite furry friend.
Pet health insurance offers you many things: routine care, emergency cover, vaccinations, kennels… the works! It offers you all of the things, but the best one of all is this: pet health insurance offers you simplicity. It makes being a pet parent ten times easier, and eleven times more fun.
How pet health insurance makes being a pet owner easy-peasy
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Claim from the palm of your hand
Pet insurance has gone digital, people!
You’re busy. You don’t need to be downloading forms, printing them out, filling them in, scanning them, emailing them and so on.
Oneplan Pet Insurance is almost entirely app-based (we say almost because our human team are pretty fantastic and you may have to communicate with a real person for emergencies and updates).
All day-to-day claims can be made within the Oneplan App. In the app, you’ll have profiles for each of your pets. All you need to do is select your pet, file the claim and just like that, you’re done.
Discover: 4 Benefits of Pet Insurance for Multiple Pets
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Track your pet’s health
Digital pet insurance also lets you keep an eye on the health of your pet as the years go by.
If you don’t keep track of the health of your pet, you run the risk of forgetting important routine checkups, vaccinations or life stage changes.
This will save you (and your vet) a lot of time, which means more time spent on getting the correct treatment for your pet.
The Wellness Wheel in the Oneplan App has individual pet health trackers that sync with your dog’s age and lifestyle, as well as provide relevant resources. The Wellness Wheel can send notifications to remind you about:
- Vaccination
- Annual Checkup
- Dental Care
- Tick and Flea
- Next Deworming
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Make budgeting simple
The best route towards being financially stable is budgeting. It doesn’t mean holding on to your money and hoping that nothing bad ever happens.
Pet emergencies do happen, and they happen out of nowhere. Sometimes you can’t budget for the kinds of costs that come with a surprise vet bill. It’s easier to budget for a small fee every month to protect your pet and your bank account.
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Early insurance boosts your benefits
Do you know what isn’t easy? Trying to find cover for a pet with a pre-existing condition. It’s not that they’ll be unable to join a policy, but you often won’t receive cover for conditions that appeared before you got insurance.
It’s far easier to insure your pet from the get-go. It lessens your risk of something developing in the uninsured phases. This way you get a wider range of coverage if your pet falls ill during their insurance policy (and after the relevant waiting periods).
With Oneplan, your pet can get cover for pre-existing and hereditary conditions after your 12 month waiting period has passed.
Related: What’s A Pet Insurance Age Limit? Everything You Need to Know About Oneplan’s Age Limits.
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Choose your vet
Without pet health insurance, you might be limited as to which vets you can visit, which means you may not have the amenities and options you would have with pet insurance.
Some insurers will limit you to a certain network of vets. At Oneplan, you have unlimited access to a vet of your choice (as long as they’re in South Africa and are fully qualified).
Learn more: Is there a Vet Network with Oneplan Pet Insurance?
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Discounts on premium products
Oneplan has introduced the place where fur parents can shop: the Onepet Store. Oneplan Hospital, Primary, Classic and Super Plan members have access to exclusive discounts in our online store that stocks premium pet products that range from premium dog food to chronic medication and grooming products.
Products can be ordered online and delivered to your door!
Let’s check out how these discounts end up coming full circle:
You need tick medication, a new collar for your new pup, and age-appropriate dog food, so you pop it into your cart.
Altogether, you owe R1700. You’re a Classic Plan client and today you get a 20% discount. You save R340 on your pet care products, which you can put straight towards your pet insurance premium! Bearing in mind the Classic Plan currently starts from R280 per month, it could completely cover that month’s premium!
Please note that these prices are reflective of the date that this article was written. For up-to-date pricing, please follow this link.
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Get paid before you see the vet
We started off this list by talking about claiming from your Oneplan App.
What that also means is that you’ll get your claim money before you see the vet! If you have an appointment coming up, you just need to load it into the Oneplan App and we will load the money onto your Oneplan Claim Card.
You’ll swipe your Oneplan Claim Card just as you would a debit card – how much easier could it get to look after your pet’s health than with Oneplan’s pawesome pet health insurance?
Yours in tail-o-made pet insurance,
Oneplan
