Who Pawdmin is not a good fit for
Pawdmin is not a good fit for mobile groomers, salons with employees, or any business built on grooming many dogs a day. It was built for solo groomers working from home, and it leaves out the features those other businesses depend on.
Mobile groomers
Pawdmin is not a good fit for most mobile groomers. Pawdmin has no route planning and nothing else built for a day spent driving between clients. A mobile groomer who needs that will be missing it every working day.
This is deliberate. Betty and Levi do not build for mobile grooming because they do not think it is a good business for a solo groomer:
- The costs are heavy. A van has to be bought, fitted out, fuelled, insured and maintained whether or not the calendar is full. A home-based groomer has almost no overhead.
- Driving is time you cannot groom. The hours between appointments make the day longer without adding a dog to it.
- The liability is higher. A vehicle on the road and a dog in a confined space carry more risk than a room at home.
- It is hard physical work for what is left once the costs are paid.
That is their opinion, and plenty of groomers make a good living in a van. It is the reason Pawdmin has no mobile features.
Two exceptions:
- A mobile groomer who does not need route features and likes the way Pawdmin handles pricing and scheduling can still apply.
- A mobile groomer who plans to move the business home is exactly who Pawdmin is for. See leaving mobile grooming.
Salons with employees
Pawdmin is not a good fit for a salon with staff. Pawdmin has no payroll or commission tracking, and its workflow assumes that the person who talks to the client is the person who grooms the dog.
A solo groomer who rents a room, or runs a one-person shop, works the same way as a home-based groomer and can use Pawdmin as it is.
High-volume and batch grooming
Pawdmin is not a good fit if your business depends on grooming many dogs a day. Pawdmin has no cage, kennel, boarding or daycare management. It is built for one dog at a time at a premium hourly rate.
Features Pawdmin does not have
If any of these is essential to you, Pawdmin is the wrong tool today:
| Feature | In Pawdmin? |
|---|---|
| Route planning for mobile groomers | No |
| Payroll or commission tracking | No |
| Cage, kennel, boarding or daycare management | No |
| Deposits | No |
| Two-way texting inside the software | No. Pawdmin sends texts but does not receive replies. |
| QuickBooks sync | No |
| A stopwatch that times each groom | No. Prices come from the minutes on the order. |
| Importing appointments from other software | No |
| Working offline | No. Pawdmin needs an internet connection. |
If Pawdmin is not a fit
Other grooming software is built for these businesses. Which grooming software is best? answers by business type, including mobile vans, salons with several groomers and boarding facilities, and the comparison pages go through specific products.
If you are not sure
Apply anyway and say what you are unsure about. Pawdmin is invitation-only so that Betty and Levi can tell you honestly whether it suits your business before you move your clients into it. How it works describes the application.
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