01 / Your real day
How many dogs a day can your shop actually do?
Enter your grooming times, team size and number of dryers to estimate how many dogs fit. This example assumes a drying pause when the groomer can do other work.
Bath
Somebody is on the dog
Drying
A pause without hands-on drying
Clip and finish
Somebody is on the dog
How many dogs a day, on your own minutes
Enter the minutes spent bathing, drying and finishing. This example assumes part of drying needs no dedicated groomer. If all drying needs hands-on work, this calculator does not represent your setup.
One dog, in minutes
30 min
Somebody is on the dog
45 min
Only time without hands-on drying
45 min
Somebody is on the dog
Your shop
2
8 hrs
2
5 a week
Optional. Leave it blank and the money line stays off.
Estimated dogs per day
12
Based on your times, with the groomer available during the drying pause. Breaks and other daily tasks are not included.
If one groomer handles the whole visit
8
For comparison, this figure reserves one groomer for the full visit, including drying.
What is holding the day back
Your groomers' hands.
One more dryer
Nothing
One more groomer
+5 dogs a day
Your dryers and your groomers run out at the same time. Adding one of either on its own buys very little.
Where the day goes
- Groomers with a dog in front of them
- 94%
- Dryers running
- 56%
- Groomer hours a day with nothing to do
- 1 hrs
- Dog hours a day spent bathed and waiting for a dryer
- 3 hrs
What the change is worth
- Extra dogs compared with reserving the whole visit
- 4
- Across 5 days
- 20 a week
The day this assumes
- Everyone starts when you open and works the same hours.
- Every dog takes the minutes you put in, and every dog is finished before you close.
- Any groomer can bath and any groomer can finish. It does not have to be the same one.
- The drying field counts only time without a dedicated groomer. Count hands-on drying with the finishing minutes. The example needs a drying pause and cannot model a fully hands-on visit.
- Nothing is set aside for lunch, check-in, checkout, or a dog that does not turn up.
- There is a dog waiting for every slot you free up. Capacity is not demand, and this page cannot see your diary.
Your real day is the number above minus whatever those last two cost you. The rest is minutes you know better than we do, so where one of them is wrong for your shop, change it and the answer moves with it.
02 / The questions this raises
Answered with your figures, not ours.
- How many dogs a day can one groomer do?
- Enter your own bath, dry and finish times to estimate it. Count any drying that needs a person as hands-on time; only put suitable processing time in the drying field.
- Why does drying time change the answer?
- The example lets a groomer work on another dog during the drying pause. It only applies when that part of drying does not need a dedicated person.
- What if a dog cannot be left on a dryer unattended?
- Count drying that needs a person in the finishing minutes. The drying field is only for a pause without hands-on work. If every minute needs a groomer, this calculator does not model your setup.
- How many dryers does a grooming salon need?
- Enough that a groomer never finishes a bath with nowhere to put the dog. Multiply your groomers by your own drying minutes, divide by the minutes a groom needs a person for, and round up. If your figures are two groomers, 45 minutes of drying and 75 minutes of hands-on work, that is two dryers. If your drying runs to 90 minutes, it is three.
- Is it my groomers or my dryers holding the day back?
- Whichever runs out of minutes first. Your groomers can take one dog every bath-plus-finish minutes; each dryer can take one dog every drying minutes. The calculator runs your day minute by minute and reports what one more of each would actually add, which is the form the question is usually being asked in: does the next dollar go on a person or on a piece of equipment.
Plan bookings around your team and equipment.
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