Grooming salon software built to run your whole shop.
Buddyz brings scheduling, pet style history, a live operation board, customer updates, and payments into one platform — built specifically for grooming salons.
Pets Today
Manage current operations and workflow
Most grooming salons run on tools that were never built for grooming.
Appointment books, texts, style notes, and payments end up spread across different systems — which creates mistakes, wasted time, and an inconsistent client experience.
Scattered tools
Appointment books, texts, style notes, and payments live in different places and rarely agree with each other.
Repeated manual work
Your front desk retypes the same reminders, ready-for-pickup texts, and check-in questions every single day.
No floor visibility
Owners and managers can't see which pets are running late or which groomer needs help until a customer is already upset.
One platform, built around how a grooming salon actually runs.
Buddyz replaces the calendar app, the CRM, the group texts, and the separate payment tool with a single system your whole team already understands.
Deposits and reminders that cut down on no-shows.
Automated updates instead of repeated front-desk texts.
Style history and notes any groomer can pick up.
Smart scheduling built around real grooming capacity.
Book appointments around groomer skill, service length, and true daily capacity — not just open calendar slots.
- Service-length-aware booking so the calendar reflects real time per groom
- Groomer-specific schedules, skills, and availability
- Deposits and card-on-file to protect the calendar from no-shows
- Automated confirmations and reminders sent without front-desk effort
A faster, cleaner check-in for every drop-off.
Replace paper intake forms and rushed front-desk questions with a smart check-in that already knows the pet.
- Digital intake with vaccine and health flags surfaced automatically
- Instant pull-up of the pet's last visit, style, and notes
- Fewer questions at the counter, faster drop-off lines
- Consistent record of every visit, not just the ones someone remembered to write down
Style history and grooming notes for every pet, every visit.
Give any groomer on your team everything they need to deliver a consistent cut, without relying on memory or index cards.
- Style history and before/after photos attached to each visit
- Grooming notes: coat condition, temperament, technique and product preferences
- Vaccine records and expiration tracking
- One shared profile across grooming, daycare, and boarding visits
See your whole grooming floor at a glance.
A live board shows every pet's status, service stage, and ready time — so nothing slips through and nobody has to ask.
- Real-time status for every pet in the building: in progress, ready, delayed
- Clear task ownership so groomers and bathers know what's theirs
- Delay alerts before a customer has to ask where their pet is
- One shared view for owners, managers, and staff
Automated updates that keep customers informed without extra work.
Ready-for-pickup texts, delay notices, and review requests go out automatically, so your team can stay focused on the dogs in the chair.
- Automatic ready-for-pickup and delay notifications
- Photo updates customers actually want to see
- Review requests sent after a great visit
- Fewer phone calls asking "is my dog ready yet?"
Deposits, cards on file, and checkout in one flow.
Protect your calendar and speed up checkout with payments built into the same platform as your scheduling and profiles.
- Deposits collected at the time of booking
- Cards on file for faster, no-fuss checkout
- Clear daily view of collected, pending, and outstanding payments
- No separate payment app or manual reconciliation
From scattered tools to one grooming operating system.
| Without Buddyz | Buddyz. | |
|---|---|---|
| Paper books or spreadsheets | Smart, capacity-aware scheduling | |
| Sticky notes and memory for style history | Style history, photos, and notes on every pet | |
| Manual texts to update customers | Automated ready-for-pickup and delay updates | |
| No visibility into the grooming floor | Live operation board for the whole team | |
| Chasing no-shows and last-minute cancellations | Deposits and cards on file that protect your calendar |
Start free. Add only the capabilities your salon needs.
Every account starts with the free Core Platform — scheduling, pet profiles, and check-in. Add Grooming Intelligence, Operations, Communication, and Payments as your salon grows.
Grooming businesses of every size.
Independent groomer
Run your own book, protect your calendar with deposits, and keep every client's style history in one place.
Multi-groomer salon
Coordinate a full team with a live operation board, clear task ownership, and shared pet profiles.
Grooming + daycare
Add daycare or boarding on the same account, with one shared customer and pet profile across every service.
Multi-location salon group
Shared profiles, location-level controls, and consolidated reporting across every store you operate.
Common questions.
What is grooming salon software?
Grooming salon software is a platform that manages the day-to-day operations of a pet grooming business: appointment scheduling, pet profiles and style history, check-in, live workflow visibility, customer communication, and payments. Buddyz brings all of these into one system instead of separate tools.
How is Buddyz different from pet grooming scheduling apps?
Most scheduling apps only manage the calendar. Buddyz adds a live operation board that shows every pet's status in real time, grooming-specific pet profiles with style history and photos, automated customer updates, deposits and card-on-file payments, and reporting — a full operating system built around a grooming salon's actual workflow, not just bookings.
Can Buddyz track pet style history and grooming notes?
Yes. Every pet profile stores style history, before/after photos, grooming notes, coat condition, temperament notes, and product or technique preferences, so any groomer can deliver a consistent cut without relying on memory or paper cards.
Does Buddyz help reduce no-shows at a grooming salon?
Yes. Buddyz lets you collect deposits at booking, save cards on file, and send automated appointment reminders and confirmations, which significantly cuts down on last-minute cancellations and no-shows.
Can I see what's happening on the grooming floor in real time?
Yes. The live operation board shows every pet in the building, which stage of the service they're in, who owns the task, and which appointments are running behind — so managers and groomers always have a shared, accurate view of the day.
Is Buddyz built for single-groomer shops or larger salons?
Both. Buddyz scales from a single groomer managing their own book to a multi-groomer salon coordinating a full team, up to multi-location grooming businesses that need shared customer profiles and consolidated reporting across stores.
Does Buddyz support daycare and boarding in addition to grooming?
Yes. Grooming Intelligence is one modular capability on the Buddyz platform. Salons that also offer daycare or boarding can add those capabilities on the same account, with shared customer and pet profiles across every service.
Is Buddyz free to start?
Yes. Buddyz starts with a free Core Platform that includes smart scheduling, pet intelligence, and smart check-in. Grooming-specific features and other add-ons like operations, communication, and payments are available as modular add-ons you turn on when you need them.
Ready to run your grooming salon on one platform?
Start free. Add only what your salon needs. Scale as you grow.