Changelog
New features and improvements we ship to Argus. Newest first.
- Checkout
Charge more than the bill for extra work
A dog that took longer than planned? Turn on Charge more than the bill at checkout in Settings → Booking Settings. When you take payment, type the amount the customer actually pays: anything above the bill is added as an extra charge, counts towards the groomer’s and assistant’s commission, and shows in the customer’s visit history as what they paid.
- Languages
Hrvatski: Argus now speaks Croatian
Croatian joins the languages your team and customers can use — the dashboard, the booking portal, the text messages customers receive, and the standard breed and size names. Turn it on in Settings → Customer / Staff languages.
- Staff
Your team hears about their own bookings by email
Turn on Team emails in Settings → Notifications and each groomer and assistant gets an email when a booking becomes theirs or its time moves — in your salon’s language, with the pets, services and a link to their calendar. Nobody is emailed about a change they made themselves.
- Customers
Find a customer by their pet's name
When booking from the calendar or searching the Customers page, type the pet's name — Georgian or Latin — and its owner comes up, alongside the usual search by name, phone, email or chip.
- Mobile
Point customers to your app from the login page
Add your app's App Store and Google Play links in Settings → External links. Customers opening your booking portal's login page on an iPhone then see the App Store badge, and on Android the Google Play badge, so they can install your app in one tap.
- Booking
Online booking keeps working when the map can't load
If Google Maps is blocked or unavailable, the branch step now shows a short note instead of the map, and customers can carry on booking from the list.
- Booking
Choose how customers book online: any free time, or no gaps
A new Online booking mode setting. Standard works as before — customers see every free time. With No gaps, customers are offered one time per day: the earliest that follows straight on from a groomer's shift start or previous appointment, so your days fill without empty holes between bookings. Find it in Settings → Booking Settings.
- Languages
Norsk: Argus now speaks Norwegian
Norwegian joins the languages your team and customers can use — the dashboard, the booking portal, the text messages customers receive, and the standard breed and size names. Turn it on in Settings → Customer / Staff languages.
- Staff
See how customers rate each groomer on the Team page
Owners and admins now see each groomer's average star rating and how many reviews it's based on, right on the Team page. Click the Rating column to sort the team by it.
- Customers
Directions to the salon from every booking
Customers can open the salon on Google Maps straight from their bookings and from the portal home page, which now shows the same salon address and phone details as the bookings list.
- Booking
Customers see a groomer's first name only
When customers choose a groomer while booking online, they now see just the groomer's first name.
- Calendar
Weeks start on Monday, on your salon's clock
The calendar starts the week on Monday, and "this week" and "today" follow your salon's own time zone, so early-morning reports no longer show yesterday.
- Dashboard
Easier-to-read money figures
Amounts across the dashboard are now grouped in thousands — 108,714.02 rather than 108714.02.
- Services
A price list you can search by breed, in your own language
Search your services by breed — using the breed names your salon actually uses — and see service and breed names in the language you've chosen. The price list shows what each service really costs, and managers can now view it too.
- Reviews
Turn happy customers into Google reviews
Customers who give a visit top marks are invited to review your salon on Google, and the link opens your listing on the Reviews tab so leaving one takes seconds. The Reviews page shows how often the invitation is shown and followed.
- Reports
Branch performance report
Compare your salons side by side: revenue, occupancy, completed sessions, no-shows, cancellations and average ticket, each against the same dates last year — for the week, the month, or just Friday to Sunday.
- Booking
Eight weeks of dates to choose from
The online booking calendar now shows eight weeks of dates, so customers can plan further ahead.
- Customers
New customers give their first and last name
When someone signs up through the booking portal, they now enter both their first and last name, so your customer list is complete from the start.
- Reports
SMS analytics: what your texts cost and what they brought in
A new Analytics section, starting with SMS: how many messages and segments you sent, what they cost, how many failed, and — after a grooming reminder — how many customers clicked the link and went on to book.
- Staff
Before-and-after photos and video on every appointment
Groomers can capture up to five photos or short videos before a groom and five after, straight from their phone in the staff portal. Video clips run up to a minute, and everything is stored privately.
- Sales
Clearer transactions and exports
Each line on a transaction now shows its share of the discount, and exported transactions say which salon they came from.
- Reminders
Book again in one tap from a text message
Grooming reminders, cancellations and missed-visit texts now include a link straight to online booking, instead of asking the customer to call.
- Customers
Managers search for a customer rather than browsing the whole list
Managers find the customer they need by name, phone, email or pet chip when booking, without being able to page through your entire customer list.
- Customers
Customer history shows cancelled visits and what was paid
A customer's history now includes cancelled visits as well as completed ones, shows what the customer actually paid, and fits properly on a phone.
- Reminders
Fewer, clearer appointment texts
Argus now stays quiet when an appointment changes in a way the customer doesn't need to hear about, instead of sending a text that says nothing new. And the day-before reminder no longer misstates the time. Fewer needless messages, and the ones that go out are right.
- Mobile
A mobile app your customers can call their own
Your salon can now have its own native app for iPhone and Android — your name, your logo, your icon on the home screen, with booking, pets and visit history built in. It's not a shared marketplace app; it's yours. Talk to us to get it set up.
- Payments
Usage-based pricing, with a monthly invoice you can see
Argus is now paid for as you use it — per active team member and per text message, no subscription and nothing up front. Each month's invoice sits in your dashboard, itemised, so you can see exactly what you owe and why.
- Customers
Customers can close their own account
A customer can now delete their own account and data from the portal themselves, without having to ask you to do it for them.
- Dashboard
The same date picker everywhere
Every date field across the dashboard now opens the same calendar, so choosing a day feels the same whether you're setting a shift, a price date or a time block.
- Staff
The staff portal works on a phone
The pages a groomer uses most — their calendar and their earnings — have been rebuilt to fit a phone screen properly, rather than being a desktop layout squeezed small.
- Reviews
Groomers can read their own reviews
Switch it on and each team member sees the scores customers gave them — their own only, never a colleague's and never the salon's. Each review names the pet and its breed, in the reader's language.
- Reminders
A second reminder, a couple of hours before
Alongside the day-before text, Argus can send a short nudge on the day with the appointment time and where to come. It's switched on separately, so you can have one, both or neither.
- Platform
The message log grew up
Search it, narrow it to a date range, filter by message type, and page through properly — and every message now shows in full instead of a clipped line.
- Dashboard
Wide tables stay in their own lane
One oversized table used to drag the whole page sideways. It scrolls on its own now.
- Reminders
Keep customers posted about their appointment
Argus can now text a customer when their appointment is booked, when it moves, when it's cancelled, the day before it happens, and after a missed visit. Each of the five is switched on separately, and each carries your salon's name, address and a map link.
- Staff
Clearer staff sign-in
Settings now shows one sign-in link for the whole team and explains where each role lands. A failed sign-in says the email address isn't recognised, instead of hinting at a permissions problem that isn't there.
- Reviews
Hear about a poor rating the same day
When a customer scores any part of a visit three stars or lower, Argus emails the owner and anyone with the quality role — so you can call them back while it can still be put right, instead of noticing at the end of the month.
- Reviews
Reach the customer straight from their review
A review now shows the customer's phone and email, each with a copy button, so following up takes one click rather than a search.
- Staff
A Quality assurance role
Give someone reviews and nothing else. The new role reads and moderates ratings without access to your calendar, customers, team or takings.
- Platform
See the app as your team or your customers
Owners can sign in as any team member, and owners and admins can open a customer's portal as them — to check what they see and help directly.
- Reviews
Customer reviews
Customers get a “rate your visit” text after grooming and can leave a rating from their portal. Owners review and moderate ratings on a new Reviews page.
- Booking
Pet breed on bookings
Each pet's breed now shows beside its name in the booking dialogs.
- Payments
Export transactions to Excel
Download the transaction list exactly as filtered on screen, with one row per item.
- Calendar
Paid appointments are protected
A checked-out appointment can no longer be dragged or edited by accident, and taps on touchscreens no longer move appointments.
- Calendar
Appointments stay visible
Booked appointments show on the calendar even when the assigned groomer isn't rostered that day.
- Platform
Message the Argus team
Reach us directly from a button in your dashboard when you need a hand.
- Dashboard
Payments over a date range
Total your takings across any custom From/To range.
- Dashboard
Recent-sales chart defaults to month-to-date
- Customers
Branch directory for customers
A Contact page in the customer portal lists every branch with its address and a map link.
- Staff
Assisted grooming
Split a job between a groomer and an assistant with a live commission breakdown, and see what each person earns.
- Staff
Richer earnings
Per-line discounts, a gross price column, and clearer handling of capped commission rates.
- Sales
Quick sale
Formerly “New sale” — ring up walk-in services fast, filtered to your non-bookable services with category and price.
- Services
Per-service commission cap
Cap the commission paid on any individual service.
- Booking
Clearer booking details
Per-pet pricing with discounts applied, the payment method and amount actually paid, and what the groomer and assistant each earn.
- Payments
Fairer commissions
Commission is calculated on the discounted price the customer actually pays.
- Payments
Search transactions across all pages
Find a transaction across your whole history, not just the current page.
- Reminders
Automatic grooming reminders
Argus texts customers when their pet is due for its next groom, based on a per-breed interval, with a friendly localized date and a booking link.
- Platform
Message log
Owners can review every SMS the salon has sent.
- Customers
Customer history at a glance
See a customer's past visits and when each pet is next due.
- Calendar
Calendar polish
Click the date to jump to any day, clearer solid-gray blocked time, and a hover indicator for the exact time slot.
- Pets
Cleaner pet records
Duplicate pet names under the same customer are blocked, and the date-of-birth picker is tidier.
- Reports
Timezone-correct reports
Day boundaries and reports respect your salon's timezone.
- Languages
Multilingual dashboard
The staff dashboard joins the customer portal in 8 languages, and your service names can be translated too.
- Staff
Better staff profiles
Key fields are required (last name, job title, phone) and job titles show in the calendar column headers.
- Staff
Personal staff portal
Each team member gets their own calendar, appointment details, and an earnings view with a “you earn” breakdown.
- Legal
Terms, Privacy, and Contact pages added
- Customers
Customer portal polish
A scannable QR code and a cleaner business-details card.