Pawdmin for groomers switching to hourly rates

You do not have to switch everything at once

The fear with hourly pricing is that every client's price changes on the same day. In Pawdmin it does not have to.

• One service at a time. Each Pawdmin service is either timed or a flat fee. You can make your full groom hourly and leave nail trims as a flat fee, on the same order. See hourly billing.
• One client at a time. Each client is on a tier, which is a named hourly rate. You can keep an existing client on a tier that works out close to what they pay now, and put new clients on your real rate. See client tiers.
• One order at a time. An order keeps the rate it was created with. Changing a rate never changes an estimate a client has already approved.

Help converting your price list

Betty and Levi will get on a phone or video call, look at how you price today and walk you through turning it into hourly rates. If you would rather do it in writing, that works too. Say that you want this when you apply.

What your clients see

Clients do not get a lecture about hourly billing. They get an itemized estimate: each service, the time it takes and what it costs, with a total. They approve it before the appointment is confirmed, so the price is never a surprise at pickup.

If you already bill hourly with workarounds

Some groomers already charge by the hour and do the arithmetic themselves, in their head or in a spreadsheet, because their software only knows flat prices. Pawdmin does that arithmetic and writes the estimate and invoice. Moving over is mostly a matter of entering your rate and your services.

Finding your number

Before you choose a rate, work out what you earn per hour today. The method takes a few minutes and is in how to switch to hourly grooming rates.

Which plan you need

Hourly billing and client tiers are part of every Pawdmin plan, including the free Basic plan. See pricing.