How much does copilot in Excel for vets cost?

About £16–19 a month for the tools, on the plans the setup needs. Microsoft 365 Copilot: Copilot Business is an add-on at £16.10 per user a month paid yearly (£13.80 in the first year on offers made by 31 December 2026), or £19.32 billed monthly, excluding VAT. It needs a Microsoft 365 business plan, priced separately, such as Business Basic at £5.40 per user a month paid yearly. Basic Copilot Chat is included with eligible Microsoft 365 plans at no extra cost.

About £75 a month in practice manager time saved, against £16 for one Copilot Business license paid yearly. It pays for itself: in about a week, in the worked example.

Which tools do I need?

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Microsoft's AI assistant built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams for business accounts. It drafts and summarizes documents and emails, analyzes spreadsheets and summarizes Teams meetings, using the work files and messages each person already has access to.

How hard is it to set up?

Easy to set up. 5 steps: Buy one Copilot Business license for the practice manager, £16.10 a month paid yearly or £19.32 monthly, excluding VAT, on top of the existing Microsoft 365 plan. Export the month's transactions and appointments with only the columns needed (date, vet, service, amount), leaving out client and animal names. Open the export in Excel and ask Copilot for income by vet and service, average transaction value and changes against last month, with charts. Check every total against the practice system's own reports before using it. Save the questions that work so next month's pack follows the same steps.

Copilot in Excel for vets: monthly practice figures

Copilot in Excel turns practice system exports into figures and charts for the partners' meeting. From about $21£16€19A$31C$30 a month, plus Microsoft 365.

At a glance

What it costs$21–25£16–19€19–23A$31–36C$30–36 a month
Worth, in extra profit or time saved in the worked example$100£75€89A$144C$141 a month
Pays for itselfIn about a week
Sign up and configure; no technical skills neededEasy to set up

Figures come from the worked example below, using its stated assumptions. Tool prices checked October 17, 2026. How we check prices

The problem

Partners want to know each month how consults, average transaction value, booster uptake and health plan numbers are moving, and for which vet. If the practice manager spends 5 hours a month pulling exports from the practice system into a spreadsheet and building tables and charts by hand, that's 5 hours of admin before anyone discusses the numbers.

What the AI does

Copilot in Excel analyzes workbook data, applies formulas across sheets and shows insights as charts, PivotTables, summaries, trends or outliers. The practice manager exports the month's transactions and appointments from the practice management system without client or animal names, opens them in Excel and asks Copilot plain-English questions: income by vet and by service, average transaction value against last month, which services are falling. The manager checks the totals against the practice system's own reports and builds the partners' pack. Copilot works within the Microsoft 365 service boundary and doesn't use prompts to train the models.

A worked example

A two-site small animal practice in Norfolk already pays for Microsoft 365 Business Standard. The practice manager adds one Copilot Business license and uses it to build the monthly figures for the partners' meeting.

Before

5 hours a month building tables and charts from exports by hand

After

About 2 hours, including checking totals against the practice system's reports

What it's worth

About $100£75€89A$144C$141 a month in practice manager time saved, against $21£16€19A$31C$30 for one Copilot Business license paid yearly. 3 hours saved a month, at an assumed $33£25€30A$48C$47 an hour.

How to set it up

Buy one Copilot Business license for the practice manager, $21.41£16.10€19.16A$30.91C$30.27 a month paid yearly or $25.70£19.32€22.99A$37.09C$36.32 monthly, excluding VAT, on top of the existing Microsoft 365 plan.
Export the month's transactions and appointments with only the columns needed (date, vet, service, amount), leaving out client and animal names.
Open the export in Excel and ask Copilot for income by vet and service, average transaction value and changes against last month, with charts.
Check every total against the practice system's own reports before using it.
Save the questions that work so next month's pack follows the same steps.

What goes wrong

Copilot can group or total data wrongly if columns are mixed up or blank. The practice system's reports are the record; check Copilot's figures against them.
Many practice systems already report the common figures. Use those first and Copilot for the questions they don't answer.
Whether free Copilot Chat works inside Excel depends on licensing; analysis in the workbook needs the Copilot license, charged per user.
Exports with client names and addresses are personal data. Leave those columns out and keep the workbook in the practice's Microsoft 365, not personal storage.

The tool you'll need

Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft's AI assistant built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams for business accounts. It drafts and summarizes documents and emails, analyzes spreadsheets and summarizes Teams meetings, using the work files and messages each person already has access to.
Copilot Business is an add-on at £16.10 per user a month paid yearly (£13.80 in the first year on offers made by 31 December 2026), or £19.32 billed monthly, excluding VAT. It needs a Microsoft 365 business plan, priced separately, such as Business Basic at £5.40 per user a month paid yearly. Basic Copilot Chat is included with eligible Microsoft 365 plans at no extra cost.
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Price checked Oct 17, 2026

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