A complete reference of Lupa's keyboard shortcuts, plus how to open the built-in cheatsheet from anywhere in the app.

Press ? at any time to open the Keyboard shortcuts pop-up — a grouped, always-up-to-date list of every shortcut available to you. The pop-up is read-only; it tells you what to press, it doesn't execute anything.

Shortcuts let your team move through Lupa without reaching for the mouse between every action. A receptionist can jump straight to the clients list while on a call. A vet finishing a consult can save an invoice or open the client record without leaving the keyboard. The cheatsheet means no one has to memorise anything — it's one keypress away whenever you need a reminder.

Press ? from any screen in Lupa. The Keyboard shortcuts pop-up opens immediately.

The pop-up will not open if your cursor is inside a text field — this prevents the ? character from being swallowed when you're typing notes or search terms. Click outside the field first, then press ?.

At the bottom of the pop-up you'll see the reminder: Press ? any time to open this.

Close the pop-up by pressing Escape or clicking outside it.

The cheatsheet groups shortcuts into the same categories shown below. All shortcuts use Alt (on Mac: Option) or Alt+Shift combinations, so they don't conflict with standard browser actions.

These shortcuts work from anywhere in Lupa.

Open client details and Open pet details are only active on pages where a client or pet is already in context — for example, an appointment, an invoice, or a pet record. On a pet's page, Alt + C opens that pet's owner. On an imaging order, Alt + P opens the linked pet.

Save the invoice (Alt + S) is only active while an invoice is open in edit mode. It does nothing on other pages.

These groups appear in the cheatsheet when their shortcuts are available. Open the Keyboard shortcuts pop-up (?) to see the current full list — it always reflects what's actually registered in your session.

A small number of shortcuts are available but don't appear in the cheatsheet because they only work in a specific context and can't be triggered globally:

Pressing ? opens a character in my notes instead of the cheatsheet. Your cursor is inside a text field. Click somewhere outside the field — on the page background or a heading — then press ?.

A shortcut I expect isn't listed in the cheatsheet. Some shortcuts are context-specific (they only activate on certain pages or when a particular panel is open) and are intentionally kept out of the global cheatsheet. The command palette (Cmd/Ctrl + /) may surface additional actions relevant to your current screen.

Alt + A creates an appointment but I wanted to type the letter A. Alt-based shortcuts only fire when Alt is held. Typing a plain letter in any field is unaffected.