Scheduling built for grooming

Your book, without the bloat.

Appointments, reminders, deposits, and your drive order. That's the whole product, and that's on purpose.

$25 a month, month to month, cancel anytime. Bring your own Square or PayPal for deposits — the money goes straight to you.

Tuesday 4 dogs · 21 mi
8:30
Bella · Goldendoodle
Full groom + dematting
14 Maple St
Deposit paid
9 min
10:15
Otis · Frenchie
Bath & tidy
22 Elm Ct
11:30
open
Pepper · Shih Tzu
Bath & brush
9 Cedar Way
Booked online
Afternoon Back by 4:30
1:00
Sadie · Std. Poodle
Full groom
8 Ridge Rd
Deposit paid
14 min
3:15
Moose · Newfoundland
Deshed — 2 hr block
41 Oak Ln

Pepper's owner just booked that open 11:30. You didn't have to answer the phone.

The gap

Groomers don't need a CRM. They need Tuesday to go smoothly.

Most grooming software was built for a salon chain and sold down to a one-person van. You end up paying for modules you'll never open, and still texting reminders by hand.

I spent a weekend setting it up and still can't find where to change a price. Mobile groomer, 1 van
Two no-shows last week. Both said they never got a reminder. Shop owner, 2 tables
My book is a paper book. It works. I just can't take a deposit with it. Solo groomer, 11 years

A book that thinks in dogs

Breed, coat condition, and last cut travel with the pet, not the appointment. Block two hours for a Newfoundland deshed without fighting a 30-minute grid.

Reminders that actually go out

Text and email confirmations, a nudge the day before, and a note when you're on the way. Set once. You'll stop hearing "I never got a reminder."

Deposits, through your own processor

Connect the Square or PayPal account you already use. Money goes straight to you — we never hold it. A paid deposit is the cheapest no-show insurance there is.

Your day in drive order

Built for mobile first. See the day as a route with real drive times, so you stop discovering at 2pm that you booked across the county and back.

The trade-off

We left things out. Deliberately.

Every feature you don't need is a setting you have to understand, a screen you have to scroll past, and a reason the thing feels heavy. So here's what Slickerbook won't do:

Marketing automations Loyalty points Sales funnels AI caption writer A 40-minute onboarding call

If it doesn't help you get through the day, it isn't in here.

Pricing

One plan. Twenty-five dollars.

No tiers to compare, no features held back to sell you an upgrade. You pay for the seats you use and the texts you send — nothing else.

Slickerbook

Everything, for one groomer

$25 / month

plus SMS usage, billed at cost

  • Unlimited appointments, clients, and pets
  • Online booking page
  • Email reminders and confirmations, included
  • Deposits through your own Square or PayPal
  • Route view with real drive times
  • Every feature. There is no higher plan.

Extra groomers

+$5 /user/mo

Only for groomers who need their own login.

Bathers, assistants, and anyone working off your book cost nothing. A paid seat gets that groomer their own book, their own route, and shared access to client and pet records — add or remove them whenever your staffing changes.

Text messages

at cost

Texts run about a penny each, passed straight through with no markup. A busy solo groomer sending confirmations, day-before nudges, and on-my-way notes typically lands around $4–8 a month.

A two-van shop, for example

Base$25.00
Second groomer$5.00
~700 texts$7.00
Per month$37.00

Month to month, cancel anytime, and you can export your book whenever you want. No setup fee, no contract, no per-booking cut.

Get started

Open your book. See if it fits your Tuesday.

Takes a minute. Add your services, share your booking link, and you're taking appointments.