Your dog grooming website is built in trimly in about ten minutes and without any code: name, services by size — bath and cut for a small, medium or large dog — opening hours, and it goes live with online booking. The owner picks a size and a service and only sees slots that fit. Free if you work on your own; with a team, €19.99 a month and no commission.
About ten minutes in total. None of the steps asks you to know anything about websites.
Just an email and a password. No card, no call first and no deadline running out: if you work on your own, the free plan stays with you as long as you want.
The name you choose becomes the website's address: “Guau Estilo” ends up at guau-estilo.trimly.es. It is what you will be giving out over the phone from tomorrow, and if you already have a domain it connects later without us charging you for it.
Bath and cut for small, medium and large dogs come already separated, and with them the bath on its own, the scissor cut, de-shedding, nail clipping and ear cleaning. You write your price on each one and adjust the minutes each size really takes you.
You state the days you open and from what time to what time. Since a large dog with a long coat can run to two and a half hours between bath, drying and cut, that stretch is blocked whole and nothing is offered inside it; a one-hour small dog leaves room where the large one would not fit.
The page publishes itself when you finish. Put it on your Google Maps listing, which is where someone who has just moved into the neighbourhood looks, and on Instagram next to the before-and-after photos. Whoever opens it books at eleven at night without writing to you.
Afterwards, if you want to: connect your own domain, add more languages, switch on deposits or card payment, and upload your logo and your photos. None of that is needed to get started.
The client who pays is the owner, but the one on the table is the dog, and the time it takes depends on size and coat. A diary that does not tell those apart gets the day wrong every day.
Small, medium and large are not variants of one service: they are three services, each with its own minutes and its own price. The owner picks the one their dog falls into when booking, and the time that size needs is set aside, rather than an average that falls short on the big ones and is generous with the small. If you work particular breeds you can split it further still, and keep the scissor cut apart with its own time.
Between one animal and the next there is hair to sweep, a table to disinfect and sometimes a drying that runs longer than it should. You can set aside a few minutes at the end of each service, the same for the whole salon or different depending which one it is, and appointments that would eat into that margin stop being offered. It is what keeps you from reaching five in the afternoon forty minutes behind, with no idea where the day went wrong.
A dog you do not know, a big long-haired crossbreed or a first-time puppy are appointments you would rather look at before waving them through. You can have whatever comes in from the website sit as pending until you accept it: your phone tells you, you see which service and which size the owner asked for, and you confirm or say no. Whatever you write down yourself at the desk always comes in confirmed, without going through that.
How the dog is with the dryer, the breed, the cut they wanted last time and the one they will not hear of: that is written once on the client's record and comes up whenever you open any of their appointments. When they book again you have it in front of you without digging through your phone or asking the same thing twice, and if somebody else takes them one day, they read it too. The visit history is kept with each record, so you can see when they were last in.
What a new dog grooming salon starts with, with a reference duration for each service by size. It takes a moment to adjust.
The duration decides which slots are offered when someone books; adjust it if yours is different.
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€19.99 a month
Founder price; the list price is €39.99
If you work on your own, nothing: the one-professional plan includes the website, the address on trimly.es, online booking and card payment, does not expire and does not ask for a card to get started. With more hands on the table you move to the flat team fee, with no limit on professionals and without us keeping a percentage of every bath. Messages are bought in packs when they are needed.
By having a service per size, which is how they come out of the box: bath and cut small, medium and large, each with its own price and its own minutes. The owner picks theirs when booking, so you neither have to ask afterwards nor correct the amount when the animal arrives. And if you often meet dogs that fall between two sizes, you can add one in the middle.
Yes. It is called the gap between appointments and it is set in minutes, for every service or only for some. That time is not offered to anyone: the slots are worked out counting the service plus the margin, so the next appointment cannot start until you have finished clearing up. On a day with three large dogs in a row it is the difference between being on time and running late.
Yes, by turning on manual approval in the settings. Bookings made on the website then arrive as pending; you get the notification, you see the service, the size and the owner's details, and you decide. Until you accept, that hour is not counted as closed. You can keep it on for a while and take it off once you know your clients.
In the notes on the client's record. You write the breed there, how the dog takes the dryer, whether the ears need care and what cut it had last time, and that information comes up whenever you open any of their appointments. There is no hunting for it in a notebook or trusting your memory when fifteen dogs go through in a week.
Yes. The confirmation comes with a link where they see their appointment, move it to another time or cancel it, within whatever notice you have set. The slot goes back to being free on the website as soon as they do, without you touching anything, and you see the change in the diary. Better that than someone not turning up because they were too embarrassed to ring.
Yes, and you can ask more for them: the deposit applies to every booking made online, and the amount is set service by service. You put a high one on the bath and cut for a large dog, the one that takes half your morning, and a token one on the nail clipping. It is charged by card at booking and comes off the total when the owner picks up. The other option, if you ask nobody for a deposit up front, is for it to be asked automatically of whoever has already left you with an empty slot.