How to start working with Pawdmin
Pawdmin is invitation-only. You send a short application, Betty and Levi review it personally, and if Pawdmin fits your business you set up your hourly rates, services and clients with their help.
1. You apply
The application is the form at the bottom of the Pawdmin home page. It asks five things:
- your name
- your email address
- where you groom: at home, mobile, in a salon, or somewhere else
- how you charge today: hourly, by breed, by size, by weight, flat rate, or "it's complicated"
- your biggest frustration right now
There is no payment step and no account is created when you apply.
2. Betty and Levi read it
Pawdmin is owned and run by two people, Betty Peto and Levi Peto. They read every application themselves and get in touch. Pawdmin takes on a small number of groomers at a time, so the reply is a person answering you, not an automatic welcome message.
The application exists because Pawdmin is built for one kind of business: a solo groomer working from home who wants a premium business, not a bigger one. If your business is a different kind, Betty and Levi will say so. Who Pawdmin is not a good fit for lists the cases where the answer is usually no.
3. You set up your business in Pawdmin
A new Pawdmin account opens with a three-step setup: business information, tax and fees, and your calendar hours. After that you add:
- Your hourly rates. Pawdmin calls each rate a tier. A common setup is one tier for existing clients and a higher one for new clients. See client tiers.
- Your services. Each service is either timed, and priced from your hourly rate, or a flat fee. See hourly billing.
- Your clients and their dogs.
If you bill by breed, size or weight today and want to move to hourly, Betty and Levi will walk you through the change on a phone or video call. Switching to hourly rates covers what that involves.
4. You move your calendar over
Appointments from another system or a paper calendar are not imported into Pawdmin. Other software stores services and prices in its own way, and a flat-rate appointment has no direct hourly equivalent.
What you do instead: build one order for each client, then schedule it forward. Pawdmin's appointment wizard can place a repeating appointment every 4 to 8 weeks through the end of the year in one pass. See year-ahead scheduling.
If your calendar is full, we recommend running your old system and Pawdmin side by side for a month while it moves over.
What it costs to start
The Basic plan is free and has no time limit. Paid plans begin with a short free trial. Pawdmin pricing has every plan and price.
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