Your own practice, not a marketplace listing.
Indian doctors may consult patients online under the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines, which let a registered practitioner charge a fee and ask for a receipt against it. Peerseek gives you one booking link for video, phone or chat consults, collects history and reports before the call, and takes UPI at checkout. The patient stays yours.
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Your comment section is not a consulting room.
A channel that teaches well will always produce people who want to be seen personally. The problem is never the demand. It is that there is nowhere proper to put it.
Clinical questions in the comment section
A video does well and the comments fill with symptoms, reports and requests for advice. None of it is a consultation, all of it expects an answer, and you cannot safely give one there.
Reports arriving on WhatsApp, out of order
Scans, prescriptions and old discharge summaries land as forwarded images across three chats. Nothing is attached to an appointment and nothing is easy to find again afterwards.
A personal UPI and no receipt
You share a UPI ID, wait for a screenshot, and have no clean record of the fee. The guidelines expect a receipt or invoice for every teleconsultation fee you charge.
A marketplace that keeps the patient you brought
Consultation desks bring volume, but they set the price, own the patient record and put you beside every other doctor. If your patients already come from your own channel, you are paying for an audience you built yourself.
Three ways doctors earn here.
Paid teleconsultations
Video, phone or chat, which are the three modes the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines recognise. Set a separate fee and duration for first consults and follow-ups.
- Video, phone or chat
- Your slots, your fee
- Paid before the slot is held
Health education sessions
A live session on diet, sleep, activity or quitting smoking. The guidelines name health promotion and disease prevention as things you may do, and an audience is exactly who it suits.
- Seats capped by you
- Auto Google Meet link
- Reminders to every attendee
Courses and guides
Package the advice you repeat in every video once, and let it sell on its own. Doctors with a channel already do this well, because the teaching is the thing people came for.
- Instant delivery
- Sells while you sleep
- No manual sending
What it actually adds up to.
Your fee, multiplied by the slots you fill. You can work the number out before you start, because there is no split to discover afterwards.
| Stage | Fee per consult | Consults a week | Monthly | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting out | ₹500 | 10 | ₹20,000 | ₹19,000 |
| Building | ₹800 | 20 | ₹64,000 | ₹60,800 |
| Established | ₹1,500 | 30 | ₹1,80,000 | ₹1,71,000 |
“You keep” is after our flat 5% transaction fee, which includes payment processing. There is no platform fee and no subscription. The comparison worth making is against a consultation desk that supplies the patient: doctors have publicly described being paid a flat ₹90 to ₹130 per consultation on those, while the patient pays ₹450 to ₹700. When you brought the patient yourself, that gap is the whole argument.
Set up the way the guidelines expect.
Most of what the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines ask of you is structural. Decide it once, put it on the page, and it applies to every patient the same way.
The patient starts the consultation
Under the guidelines, consent is implied when the patient initiates the teleconsultation. Someone who finds you, opens your page and books a slot has done exactly that, which is the cleanest position you can be in.
Your registration number, where patients see it
Every practitioner has to display the registration number given by their State Medical Council or the NMC on prescriptions, website, electronic communication and receipts. Add yours to your profile and to each service description so it sits on the page a patient books from.
A fee, and a record of it
The guidelines treat a teleconsultation the same as an in-person consultation on fees, and ask you to give a receipt or invoice for the fee charged. Payment is taken at booking and both you and the patient get a confirmation with the amount on it.
History and reports before the call
Attach a form to each service with the right field type for each answer, including file upload for scans and prescriptions. It is filled in at booking and stays attached to that booking rather than scattered across a chat.
What you do not treat online
Put the boundary in the service description itself: what the consult covers, what needs an in-person examination, and that an emergency should go to immediate in-person care rather than into a booking.
Cancellations and refunds, written down
Set your own cancellation window and refund terms once, on your page, so they apply the same way to everyone and you are not negotiating them per patient over chat.
This is a summary of the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines written for practitioners, not legal advice, and it is not a compliance service. The duty to practise within the guidelines, to prescribe only within the permitted drug lists and to keep records stays with you. Check your own workflow against the current NMC and State Medical Council requirements before you take a first booking.
History and reports arrive before you do.
Attach a form to each consultation with the right field type for each answer. Duration is a number, medication is text, and reports are a file upload, so scans and old prescriptions come in at booking instead of as forwarded images on WhatsApp. Each answer stays attached to that booking, which is also how the record stays findable afterwards.
Typical intake for a first teleconsultation
- Presenting complaint, in the patient's words
- How long the symptoms have lasted
- Current medication and known allergies
- Relevant past history
- Reports and scans, uploaded as files
- Age, and city for referral if needed
Who owns the patient you brought?
It is the right question to put to any platform you are considering, so here is our answer in plain terms, before you ask. The short version: no other practitioner here can open, list or search your bookings, and nothing about your patients is sold or passed to another doctor.
There is no doctor directory
You are not placed in a ranked list of practitioners for a patient to choose from. There is no queue, and no next available doctor.
Hidden from search by default
New profiles are not discoverable on Peerseek search unless you switch it on yourself. A patient reaches you through your link, from your channel.
You set the fee
Every consultation is priced by you, per service, and changed whenever you like. Nobody else decides what your time is worth.
We earn only when you earn.
Free to start. No upfront payment, no credit card, nothing to cancel later. You are not buying practice software, so there is no reason to pay a subscription before a single patient has booked.
The 5% covers payment processing too, so it is not a fee on top of a fee. What you see is what leaves your payout.
Want it on your own domain?
A page on Peerseek says you are listed somewhere. Your own domain says you run a practice. For a doctor whose name is the reason people came, that difference carries further than any feature does.
This is not another generic AI-generated template. It is a custom website, designed around how you actually practise, by our team.
Included with this plan: connect your own payment gateway
On the custom website plan you can plug in your own gateway, which brings the commission down further so more of every consultation lands in your account. It is set up with our team and is not available on the free plan.
For context, a professional website in India commonly costs ₹25,000 to ₹80,000 to build, and hosting with a domain runs ₹3,000 to ₹8,000 a year on its own. This is a separate optional service and is not a platform fee. Peerseek itself stays free to use.
Questions doctors ask.
How do I start online consultations as a doctor in India?+
Create a booking page, list each consultation with its fee and duration, attach an intake form that collects history and reports, and share one link from your channel. The patient picks a slot, pays by UPI and fills the form before the call. Under the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines a registered medical practitioner may charge a fee for a teleconsultation and should give a receipt or invoice for it.
Is online doctor consultation legal in India?+
Yes. The Telemedicine Practice Guidelines, issued in 2020 and placed in Appendix 5 of the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations 2002, allow a registered medical practitioner to consult remotely by video, phone or text. The same professional and ethical standards apply as in person, and prescribing is limited to the drug lists in the guidelines.
What is the best online consultation platform for doctors in India?+
It depends on where your patients come from. If a platform supplies the patients, it will set the price and keep the relationship. If you bring your own patients from YouTube, Instagram or word of mouth, what you need is booking, payment and intake rather than a directory. Peerseek is the second kind: there is no doctor listing you are ranked inside, and new profiles are hidden from search by default.
Can I charge a fee for a teleconsultation?+
Yes. The guidelines state that telemedicine consultations should be treated the same way as in-person consultations from a fee perspective, and that the practitioner may charge an appropriate fee. They also say you should give a receipt or invoice for the fee charged, which is why payment is taken at booking and confirmed in writing to both sides.
Do I have to display my medical registration number?+
Yes. The guidelines require every practitioner to display the registration number given by their State Medical Council or the NMC on prescriptions, website, electronic communication and receipts given to patients. Peerseek does not yet have a dedicated field for it, so add it to your profile title or description and to each service description.
Will you show my patients other doctors?+
No. There is no doctor directory on Peerseek that you are placed into, and new creator profiles are hidden from platform search by default. A patient who opens your link sees your page, your services and your fees. If you would rather be discoverable on Peerseek as well, that is a setting you turn on yourself.
Is my patient data shared with other doctors?+
No. A booking, its intake form and any reports attached to it belong to one doctor and one patient. No other practitioner on Peerseek can open, list or search your bookings. Access is decided from the logged-in account on every request rather than from anything the browser sends, so it cannot be changed by editing a link. Uploaded reports are not kept at a public web address either: they are served through signed links that expire after 30 minutes, and a link only works for the booking the file was attached to. Patient information is never sold, and it is never passed to another practitioner. Our own team can reach records where support or maintenance requires it, as with any hosted service.
Is it free to start?+
Yes. Creating your page, listing consultations, taking bookings and accepting payments are all free. No upfront payment, no credit card, no subscription and no setup cost. A flat 5% transaction fee applies only on what you actually earn, and it includes payment processing, so there is no separate gateway fee on top.
How much does a custom website with my own domain cost?+
₹11,999 a year, which covers the domain, a custom-designed site, hosting and end-to-end management by our team. For comparison, a professional website in India commonly costs ₹25,000 to ₹80,000 to build, with hosting and a domain adding ₹3,000 to ₹8,000 a year on top. It is an optional service, separate from Peerseek itself, which stays free to use.
Free to start. No card needed.