Hourly billing for dog groomers

How Pawdmin calculates an hourly price

Every service in Pawdmin is one of two kinds:

• Timed. The service has a length in minutes. Its price is those minutes multiplied by your hourly rate divided by 60.
• Flat fee. The service has a fixed price, whatever your hourly rate is.

An order adds its lines together. A timed line costs its minutes at your rate, a flat-fee line costs its fixed price, and any product on the order adds its own price.

For example, at $120 an hour:

Pawdmin produces that table for the client as an itemized estimate, and later as the invoice.

Where your hourly rate comes from

You set your hourly rates once, on a page Pawdmin calls Tiers. A rate has a name and an hourly amount. You can have several, which is how client tiers work: a new client can be on $150 an hour while a long-standing client stays on $110.

When you create an order, Pawdmin copies the client's current rate onto it. You can switch the rate on a single order without changing the client's tier.

What happens to old orders when you raise your rate

Nothing. Each order keeps the rate it was created with, so raising your rate never changes an estimate a client already approved. New orders use the new rate.

Hours and dollars per hour, every day

Pawdmin's dashboard shows two figures for each day next to the money totals: the hours you groomed and your dollars per hour, which is what was paid, minus tips, divided by the paid hours. See the Money Meter.

What Pawdmin's hourly billing does not do

• No stopwatch. Pawdmin does not time a groom or record minutes actually worked. The price comes from the minutes on the order. If a groom runs long, you change the order before you check the client out.
• Hours only. A rate is always per hour. Pawdmin has no per-day or per-week rates.

Which plan includes hourly billing

Hourly billing is part of every Pawdmin plan, including the free Basic plan. See pricing.