You didn't open a pet business to spend your evenings answering texts and your Sundays catching up on paperwork. You opened it for the animals, the craft, and the freedom. Animal Friends OS is how you get back to that.
This is an industry-wide problem. The shops that fix it gain a lasting edge over the ones that don’t.
This isn’t a discipline problem. It’s a systems problem. Here’s what’s driving it.
Scheduling requests, client messages, reminder texts, invoicing — all of it bleeds into nights and weekends when there's no system handling it. The business never fully turns off.
Groomer, scheduler, receptionist, accountant, marketer. Every hour spent on a task that a system could do is an hour not spent on the thing that actually earns revenue.
For many groomers, adding clients means adding stress rather than adding income. Without the right infrastructure, growth just means a longer workday.
Specific features, built for this exact problem.
Booking confirmations, reminders, ready-for-pickup texts, and follow-ups all run without you. Your phone stops being a second job after hours.
Clients book their own appointments, update their pet's information, and view past invoices — without calling or texting you. You open the next morning to a full calendar you didn't manually build.
Invoice is ready at checkout. Client pays via card, text-to-pay, or the client portal. No chasing payments, no cash reckoning at the end of the week.
Revenue by week, service mix, best clients — all visible at a glance. Know exactly how your business is doing without building a spreadsheet on Sunday night.
“Chase built the automation layer with solo operators specifically in mind. The goal was a system where a single-person shop could run client communication, booking, invoicing, and follow-up on autopilot — so the groomer could be fully present during work hours and fully off the clock when the last dog goes home.”
Yes. Animal Friends OS is specifically designed to help solo operators run a professional, fully automated business without a front-desk staff member. Every task that a second person would handle can be automated.
Operators typically report saving 10–15 hours per week on admin tasks — primarily client communication, scheduling management, and invoicing. The exact number depends on appointment volume and current workflow.
Yes. The online booking page and embeddable widget let clients select a service, time, and groomer, pay a deposit, and confirm — all without your involvement. Bookings land in your calendar automatically.
When your calendar reaches capacity for a given day, online booking automatically shifts clients to the next available slot. You never get accidentally overbooked.
At checkout, one tap sends the client a secure payment link via SMS. They pay via card from their phone. The payment posts to their invoice immediately. No card reader required.
Yes. You configure your working hours, days off, and service-specific time windows. Clients can only book inside the availability you've set.
Blocking a day on your calendar automatically cancels or pauses online booking for that day. The system sends affected clients an automated notification with a reschedule link.
Yes. You can configure multiple concurrent service slots — for example, two dogs bathing simultaneously with staggered finish times. The calendar manages the concurrency without you tracking it manually.
Yes. Revenue reports by date range, service type, and client are available at any time. All payments and invoices are logged. Export to CSV for your accountant or for self-filing.
Animal Friends OS scales with you. Add staff members, assign them to specific services or time blocks, and set their individual capacity rules. The same system that ran your one-person shop manages a multi-groomer salon.
Yes. Month-to-month, no contracts. Pause or cancel any time. Your data is preserved and exportable whenever you need it.
$69/month. No per-booking fees, no per-client limits, no add-on modules. Everything included: booking, client portal, invoicing, SMS automation, reporting, payroll, and more.