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The Live Demo: Clicking Around a Sample Mobile Pet Grooming Company

Screenshots and feature lists only tell you so much. The quickest way to understand grooming software is to click around in it. But setting up your own account just to look can feel like a commitment. That is what the live demo is for.

Before the Trial, or Alongside It

The 14-Day Free Trial: Setting Up Pet Grooming Software Before You Pay covered running your own business through the software. The demo is the step before that, or a companion to it: a business that is already set up, so you can see what yours could look like.

What the Demo Is

The PetGroomBossPro live demo at my.petgroombosspro.com/demo.html is a fully stocked sample mobile grooming company. There are clients, pets, vans, repeat appointments, scheduled days and invoices already in it. There is no signup. You open the link and start clicking.

Because it is sample data, you can try things without worrying about breaking anything.

Things to Look At

Here is a short tour that covers the main parts of the product in about the time it takes to drink a coffee:

• A client with pets. Open a household and look at the pets on a visit: name, dog or cat, breed, size, coat, rabies due date and the cut notes. Look at the add-ons and van notes.
• A repeat series. Find a client on a recurring schedule and see their slot: weekday, time, van and frequency. Look at the Recurring Clients list.
• Pending Jobs. Open the map and list, look at tomorrow's tab and the No Day tab, and see how planned visits wait to be confirmed.
• The Scheduled list. Filter by van, try auto-route Closest First and Furthest First, and see the appointment times on each card.
• A completed job. Look at the grooming checklist for each pet, the note to the owner, the photos, and the invoice it created.
• Leads. See what a booking request looks like when it comes in from the Book Now page, with the pets and quoted price.
• Billing. Look at invoices with their line items and sales tax, and how payments and tips are recorded against them.

Look at It Like Your Own Business

The demo is most useful when you picture your own week in it. Find a household that looks like one of your regulars and ask: would this card tell my groomer everything they need? Find a day on the Scheduled list and ask: is this how I would want my day ordered? Look at Pending Jobs and imagine confirming your own tomorrow.

If you run more than one van, look at how the demo company's days are split between vans on the Scheduled list. That part is covered in more depth in Running a Two-Van Mobile Pet Grooming Company: Groomers, Bathers and Shared Vans.

Questions the Demo Answers Quickly

Some questions are easier to answer by looking than by reading:

• How much is on a pet record, and is it enough for my notes?
• How many clicks does it take to confirm tomorrow?
• What does an invoice look like to my customers?
• Does the schedule make sense for a business with set appointment times?

Try the Groomer and Customer Side Too

The office screens are only half the picture. While you are in the demo, look at what a groomer sees on an appointment card and what a customer sees in their app, because those are the screens your team and your clients will use every day. If you can picture your groomer reading that card in a driveway and your customers checking that map on grooming day, the demo has done its job.

Open it on your phone as well as your computer. Mobile groomers spend most of the day on a phone, so it is worth seeing how the screens feel at that size before you decide anything.

From Demo to Trial

The demo shows you a business someone else set up. The trial shows you yours. Once the demo has answered your first questions, start the 14-day free trial, with no credit card, and put a week of your own clients through it. The two together give you a clear picture before you spend anything.

Share It With Your Team

If you have a groomer, a bather or someone helping in the office, send them the demo link too. They can look around on their own time and come back with their own questions, which is often a better test than the owner's alone.

No Pressure, No Signup

The demo is there for anyone who wants a look. Click around as long as you like. When you are ready for more, the trial is a click away. For the full list of guides, go back to the pet grooming software page.