Full groom (medium dog) at £45Your services, priced and timed
Bath & dry, nail trim and the rest of the menu each carry a price, a length and a category, ready to book online.
Dog grooming booking and reminder software UK: A full grooming diary, fur real
Online booking for every groom, deposits, grooming notes and rebooking reminders, all in one place.
No commission on new clients. No per client charges.
One monthly subscription. 2.5% + 35p on standard UK cards, only when you take a card payment.
What dog groomers see in Youzse
Real screens from Pampered Paws, our demo grooming salon, with the numbers it shows today.
Full groom (medium dog) at £45
Waiting for your replyReviews that name the work
Every review names who it was with and what was booked, this one for nail trim. Reply from the same screen.
Hand stripping, 2 hr 30 minsEvery appointment in one place
Open any appointment to see the service, time, length, price and deposit, with the client and their history a scroll away.
Book by breed, groom with ease
Owners book the groom their dog needs, the right time is reserved and a deposit confirms the slot. Coat, temperament and clipper notes sit on the owner record.
No commission on new customers. No per customer charges.
One monthly subscription. 2.5% + 35p only when you take a card payment.
Charge for the coat, not the clock
A matted doodle is three hours and a double-coated husky is a de-shed and neither is the same job as a puppy trim. Price each groom by size and coat condition, take a deposit that reflects the slot and charge properly when a dog turns up in a worse state than booked.
No commission on new clients.
2.5% plus 35p on standard UK cards, with the platform fee inside it.
Every six weeks, or the mats win
A dog groomed on schedule is a quick, profitable job. One left twelve weeks is a de-mat you will resent. Recurring bookings and reminders keep the cycle tight. The coat notes tell you what you are walking into.
Unlimited owner records.
Unlimited customer records on every plan, yours to export at any time.
Running a dog grooming business
Grooming is the only trade here where the customer paying is not the one on the table and where the job can double in size the moment the door opens. Both of those have to be priced in before the dog arrives rather than argued about afterwards.
Coat type is the price, breed is only the starting point
A puppy trim, a de-shed on a double coated husky and a de-mat on a doodle nobody has brushed since March are three unrelated jobs taking one, two and three hours. A single groom price for all three means the worst dogs are subsidised by the easiest ones.
State the de-matting position when the booking is made and not at the door. A surcharge agreed in advance is accepted without comment. The same surcharge produced at collection is an argument. It is an argument you have while holding somebody's dog.
What actually fills a grooming day
| Part of the appointment | Roughly | Where it goes wrong |
|---|---|---|
| Check in and coat assessment | Ten minutes | The moment a booked tidy turns out to be a strip off |
| Bathing and drying | Often half the appointment | A thick coat dried badly mats within a week and comes back as your fault |
| The groom itself | What the owner thinks she booked | A dog that will not stand still doubles this and cannot be hurried |
| Nails, ears and finishing | Fifteen minutes | Routinely done free and almost never on the bill |
Four dogs a day is four handovers a day, which is why staggered collection times matter as much as the grooming slots themselves.
The six week cycle is a welfare question before it is a commercial one
A dog groomed on schedule is a quick and profitable appointment. The same dog at twelve weeks is a de-mat that would hurt the animal. You may be professionally obliged to clip it off rather than attempt to save the coat.
Standing appointments answer this better than reminders do. Set the recurring booking at the interval the coat needs and the diary becomes predictable enough to plan staff and van hours around.
Where an owner will not commit to a standing slot, time the prompt to the coat. A poodle and a labrador do not need the same message and sending both the same one tells the poodle owner you are not paying attention.
What belongs on a pet record before the dog is on the table
- Vaccination dates, prompted before the appointment rather than asked about on the day
- Coat type and the finish the owner actually wants, in the words she used
- Temperament notes, including anything the dog has done to a previous groomer
- Medical conditions, lumps, arthritis and anything limiting time stood up
- How the dog is with a high velocity dryer, which decides the length of the slot
- Who is permitted to collect, which matters in shared households more often than you would like
- A photograph of the last finish, so the next groomer matches it
- The owner record kept linked but separate, because dogs change hands and owners have several
Temperament notes are a staffing document
A dog that has snapped before is information the next groomer needs before it is lifted onto the table, not after. That single note is the difference between a near miss and a claim. It protects a junior who has never met the animal.
It also decides what you charge. A dog needing two people and double the time is a different job to the one on the price list. It should be booked and billed as a different job from the outset.
Built for dog groomers
Each of these sits in the same account, so a booking, its payment and the client record stay together.
Online booking page
Owners book a full groom, a bath and tidy or a puppy introduction from your page, with your prices and times.
Grooming notes and photos
Clipper lengths, temperament and matting go in notes, with before and after photos on each appointment.
Rebooking reminders per service
Set the gap per service and the owner is nudged when the next groom is due, unless it is already booked.
Card deposits and no show fees
A deposit holds a slot for a big breed that takes the whole morning. It comes off the bill at collection.
Loyalty for regulars
A stamp per groom with a reward at the number you choose, for the dogs you see every six weeks or so.
WhatsApp and SMS reminders
Owners get a reminder by WhatsApp, SMS or email before drop off, so you are not waiting with the table ready.
Clear answers before you switch
The details that usually slow down a move: setup, pricing, bookings, records and how Youzse fits into your day.
Yes. Set up a service for each size or groom, such as a small dog full groom or a large dog de-shed, each with its own length and price.
Simple pricing, nothing hidden
Try every feature on your plan free for 30 days, with no card needed.
- new customer fees
- 0%
- day free trial
- 30
- card rate, plus 35p
- 2.5%
- customer records on every plan
- Unlimited