An hour with your hands busy, and the receipt question on every new call
A massage therapy session lasts an hour, sometimes an hour and a half, door closed, hands on a client. Picking up is impossible, and that is exactly when the person looking for a spot this week calls, or the one who received a gift certificate, or the pregnant client who wants to know whether you offer prenatal massage.
In Quebec, massage therapy is not governed by a professional order. The opinion that Quebec’s professions office issued in March 2026 covers kinesiologists only, even though one of the requesting associations also includes massage therapists; oversight runs through the associations therapists choose to join. For receipts, the insurer decides which associations it recognises, under the person’s contract. In a province where the profession has a regulatory college, such as Ontario, the receipt also carries the therapist’s registration number.
Your receptionist takes those calls during the session. She records the type of massage, the length and the preference, a specific therapist, a man or a woman, writes down as said any condition the person wants flagged, and books inside your openings. She says a receipt is issued without promising reimbursement, and books nothing on an inappropriate call.