Grooming scheduling software
A calendar that understands a grooming day.
Grooming scheduling software for a real grooming day: groomers, services and the times they really take, on one calendar that knows who is working and when.
A sample screen from the scheduling part of Bandana.
Try it: two dogs, one ticket
The Whitfields are bringing Marlow and Pip on Saturday. Give each dog a service and a groomer, and watch what the calendar would do.
This is a simulation that runs in your browser, with made-up dogs and no account. In Bandana the same thing happens on Find a time: add another dog, and every time offered places each dog with a groomer, on one ticket with one checkout.
Saturday
One ticket · minutes · taken once at pickup
Sample only: made-up dogs, groomers and prices.
All of it, in detail
- Multi-pet, multi-staff tickets
- Two dogs from the same family on one ticket: a bath with one groomer and a full groom with another at the same time, or one after the other. Find a time offers the times that fit them all, and it is one checkout.
- Recurring appointments
- Every six weeks, same groomer, same time. Set it once and the series looks after itself, refilling the calendar as time passes and surviving daylight saving. Anything that will not fit is listed rather than skipped quietly.
- Conflict warnings that explain themselves
- When a slot cannot be booked, the reason is on screen: the groomer is off, the run is full, the drive time does not work. Not a silent refusal.
- A waiting list that does not get forgotten
- A client whose dates will not work can join from your booking page, and they arrive on the same queue as your booking requests — in order, with their number one tap away.
- Find a time while they are on the phone
- Search by the dog's name, get times that actually work with the reason for each, and book it there and then.
- A staff schedule the calendar respects
- Set who works when, per location, with a break in the middle of the day that nothing gets booked across.
- A day sheet for the back room
- Print one location's day: times, pets, services and groomers, with what to watch for beside each. A groomer who sees only their own appointments gets only their own, and phone numbers and addresses appear only for people allowed to see client contact details.
- Drag to reschedule
- Move a booking to another time or another groomer by dragging it, and the calendar checks the new slot before it moves.
Every booking the desk makes, and every online request it accepts, goes through the same checks — so the calendar and the desk never disagree.
How it works in detail
- Booking an appointment — Booking from Find a time, two dogs from one family, and what to do when a time is refused.
- Finding a time on the phone — Answering "when can you fit Bella in?" while they are still on the line.
- Booking a standing appointment — Every six weeks, same groomer, same time — set once while they are on the phone.
- Setting who works when — The schedule — and why an empty one makes the calendar look fully booked.
- Opening hours — Setting them per location, and the lunch-gap trick.
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