Smart scheduling for groomers

Book enough time for each dog and groomer.

Set booking times by experience, size and coat. Plan who does each step, and keep new bookings closer together.

Time by experience

Set booking time by your groomer’s experience.

A junior groomer may need longer than an experienced one. Set a slower or quicker pace for each experience level, so their bookings allow the time they need.

Same full groom
Junior75min
Intermediate60min
Expert45min

You set the pace.

Time for each dog

Add time for size, weight or coat condition.

A thick coat can need more grooming time. Set where the extra minutes go: bathing, grooming or drying. You don’t have to adjust every booking by hand.

Extra grooming time for a thick coat
StepUsual timeThick coat
Bath15 min15 min
Groom30 min45 min+15 min
Dry15 min15 min
Total60min75min

Your service steps

Choose which steps need your groomer or an assistant.

Set time for your assistant to help with bathing, drying or finishing. Your groomer can take another booking during that work. No assistant? Keep the whole groom with your groomer.

Set different steps for each service.

Choose the order and time for a bath, a full groom or any other service you offer.

Allow time for a treatment to work.

Add a pause between hands-on steps, where the dog’s care permits.

A full groom with assistant help
  1. Bath 15 min

    Groomer

  2. Dry 30 min

    Assistant

    Groomer
    available
  3. Groom 30 min

    Groomer

  4. Finish 15 min

    Groomer

While the assistant dries

Groomer: another dog’s nail clip

Day packing

Offer new bookings closer to the ones you already have.

One groom at nine, another at three. You’re left waiting in between. Turn on day packing to offer nearby times and leave fewer gaps.

Choose where bookings gather.

Mornings, afternoons or either end of the day. You can also concentrate bookings around fewer team members.

Open more times closer to the day.

With adaptive settings, choose when all available times open for last-minute bookings. Your staff still see every available time, and existing appointments stay put.

Morning bookings first

Already booked

9 am

Offer next

10 am

Closer to the appointment day

More available times open up

11 am12 pm1 pm2 pm3 pm4 pm

People, equipment and workload

Choose who can take bookings, and how much you take on.

Choose who can do each service.

Select the services each team member can perform. Customers only see times with someone who can do the work.

Full groom

Sam or Alex

Either can take this booking

Reserve the equipment each service needs.

Add the equipment or workspace the service needs. It is reserved for the full service time, so another booking cannot use the same space.

Full groom

Groomer + workspace

Space reserved for the full service

Leave time to clean up between bookings.

Set a gap after appointments so you can clean and get ready for the next dog.

Between appointments

15 min

For cleaning and getting ready

Set your maximum bookings per day.

Choose a daily limit that suits the workload your shop can handle.

Daily limit

8 bookings

You choose your limit

Planning your week

See the workload before you decide who to roster.

Compare past workload with bookings already taken and the staff hours you’ve planned. See searches that found no available times, so you can decide whether to add more people.

Friday staffing
Past Friday workload
18 hours
Already booked
16 hours
Staff hours planned
12 hours

3 searches found no available times.

Availability checked again before confirmation.

If someone else takes a time, your team’s availability is checked before the customer’s booking is confirmed.

Timed appointments and drop-offs in the same diary.

See the day’s work in one place, including dogs dropped off before their groom.

Set up bookings to suit your shop.

Try it for 14 days. No credit card required.