Choosing software for a grooming salon
The questions owners actually ask when they are choosing a tool, answered directly.
What software runs a grooming business with more than one location?
You need software where a location is a first-class concept rather than a second account: its own calendar, team, price list, opening hours and booking page, with owner-level reporting that spans all of them. Argus is built that way — one login covers every branch, each branch keeps its own timezone and hours, managers are restricted to the branches they run, and earnings and takings can be read per branch or across the whole business.
Read the answerHow do you track groomer commissions without doing it by hand?
Commission should be calculated at the moment of sale, from the price the customer actually paid, and it should be visible to the person who earned it. Argus gives each groomer a rate, lets you cap the rate per service, calculates commission on the discounted line total, splits it with an assistant when two people worked one dog, and shows both the manager and the groomer the effective percentage that really applied after caps and discounts.
Read the answerIs there grooming salon software that works in more than one language?
Yes — and the useful version translates both sides, because your team and your customers may not share a language. In Argus the staff dashboard and the customer booking portal are both available in 8 languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Ukrainian and Georgian), each person chooses their own, and your service, breed and size names can be translated too, so a customer reads your price list in their language while your groomers work in theirs.
Read the answerHow do I move my grooming salon off a paper diary or spreadsheet?
Move in the order that removes the most manual work per hour spent setting up: your price list and team first, then your calendar, then let customers book themselves. In Argus that is roughly an afternoon — import a starter catalogue of 205 breeds with sensible grooming intervals, add your services priced by pet size, set your team's shifts, then share your booking link. Your existing customer list can be added as you see each client, so you are never blocked on a data-entry project before you get value.
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