PetGroomBossPro Blog — Repeat Appointments

Multi-Pet Homes on One Repeat Grooming Slot

For a mobile groomer, a home with three pets is one of the best stops of the week. One drive, one parking job, one hookup, three grooms. It is also the stop most likely to go sideways if the details are not straight, because three pets means three cuts, three sets of quirks and a longer block on the schedule. PetGroomBossPro books the whole household on one repeat slot and keeps each pet separate on the card.

One Slot, Several Pets

Keeping each pet's cut consistent is covered in Cut Notes That Stay With the Client Across Every Repeat Grooming Visit. In a multi-pet home, those notes matter even more, because the groomer has to keep several pets straight in one visit.

Every visit holds the pets at that home, up to four per visit. Book the household once with Add Recurring Grooming and every visit in the series carries all of them, each with its own name, Dog or Cat, breed, size, coat, rabies due date and notes line. The doodle's teddy bear face and the cat's “hides under the bed” note never get mixed up, because they belong to different pets on the same visit.

Dogs and Cats Together

Plenty of homes have both. A family might have a goldendoodle on a full groom, a shih tzu on the same, and a long-haired cat who gets a groom on the same slot. Each pet is marked Dog or Cat, with the right coat type, so the groomer sees exactly what is coming.

The groomer decides the order once they are on site. The software just makes sure every pet is listed with its own details, and the grooming checklist runs per pet, so each one gets its own checked steps and its own note for the customer. Cats on repeat schedules have their own article: Cats on a Repeat Grooming Schedule: Setting Up Recurring Cat Grooms.

Add-Ons Per Visit

Add-ons are ticked on the job, so a multi-pet visit can carry whatever that household gets: teeth brushing, nail grinding, de-shed treatment, ear cleaning, a bow or bandana. Put the detail of which pet gets what in each pet's notes line — “teeth brushing for Pepper only” — so nobody brushes the wrong dog's teeth or skips the right one.

The add-ons carry forward like the pets do, so the household's usual extras show up on every visit without being ticked again.

Pricing a Multi-Pet Home

Pricing is set by you. Services can be priced off the pets at the address, since the property can hold counts of pets, dogs and cats. A common approach is a price per pet, such as an $85 full groom for a small dog plus $30 for a large dog, with a cat groom added on. The series holds the total, and you can adjust it if you have agreed on a household price.

On the online booking page, customers pick how many pets and each pet's name, breed and size, and they see the price instantly based on the base prices, size add-ons and minimum you set. That request lands in Leads with every pet listed, ready to book onto a slot.

Giving the Slot Enough Time

A three-pet stop takes a bigger block of the day than a single small dog. When you choose the time on the series, think about what comes next on that van's weekday and leave room. Because every visit is written up front, you can look at the coming weeks on Pending Jobs and see whether the slot after it is tight.

Some groomers like to give big households the first slot of the day, when nothing is running late. Others put them right before a lighter afternoon. Either way, the set time on the card tells the groomer when the household is expecting the van, and the next client's set time shows what has to be protected.

When the Household Changes

Multi-pet homes change more often than single-pet homes. A new puppy arrives. An old dog passes. A cat moves in with a new partner. When that happens, update the pets on the next visit so the rest of the series picks it up, and update the price on the Recurring Clients list if it changes.

A new puppy is often a natural fit for a puppy intro groom on the same visit as the older dogs. The household stays on one slot; the card just gets one more pet.

One Invoice, Every Pet

When the groomer taps Complete, one invoice is created for the visit with its line items and sales tax, and the card on file can be charged. The customer sees the visit in the customer app and can leave a tip on the paid invoice. For the rest of the repeat tools, return to the PetGroomBossPro recurring grooming software page.