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Step-by-step articles for the first 30 days with SmoochiPet. Each one says what to press, what you will see, and what to check if it does not work. Everything here describes what the app does today.
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Getting started
Set up your shop and get to your first booking.
- Set up your shop with the onboarding checklist
Work through the six steps that take a new shop from nothing to bookable: profile, hours, first service, first groomer, payouts and plan.
- Create your shop account
Start a new grooming shop on the platform with your shop name, your name, email and a password.
- What the owner, manager, front desk and groomer can see
The four sign-in roles, the menu items each one gets, and what only the owner can do.
Calendar and appointments
Book, move, check in and cancel.
- Use the calendar: Day, Week and Month views
Switch views, show or hide groomers, filter by service line, and read the dogs-per-day figures.
- Book a new appointment
Book one pet or several for a household, check the calendar as you go, and use Book anyway or the waitlist when needed.
- Check in, move, rebook or cancel an appointment
Use the appointment's quick view for check in, no-show, ready for pickup, move, rebook and cancel.
- Add a client to the waitlist and offer them a slot
Keep a list of clients who want a time that is not free, and message them when one opens up.
Clients and pets
Households, pets, vaccines and groom notes.
- Add a client and edit their household
Create a household with its first pet, then edit contact details, address, notes and tags.
- Add a pet, groom notes and photos
Fill in a pet's profile and behaviour tags, keep carry-forward groom notes, and add a photo.
- Record a pet's vaccines and read the warning badges
Add vaccine records on the pet's Health tab and understand what Current, Expires soon, Expired and No record mean.
Services, stations and team
Your menu, tubs and tables, staff and hours.
- Add a service and its add-ons to your menu
Set a service's price, length, online visibility, who can do it and what it needs, then add optional add-ons.
- Set up stations: tubs, tables and dryers
Add the equipment a booking holds, so two dogs never share a tub, and see what limits your day.
- Add a staff member, set their weekly hours and block time off
Add groomers to the calendar, set when they work, block days or hours, and make them bookable online.
- Invite someone to sign in to your shop
Email a groomer, front desk person or manager a link that gives them their own sign-in.
Checkout and payments
Take payment, set up a card reader, tax and tips.
- Set up card payments, a card reader, sales tax and tip presets
Connect payouts, register a Stripe smart reader, and set sales tax and the tip buttons shown at checkout.
- Take payment at checkout: card, cash, pay link, split and refund
Start a sale from an appointment or as a walk-in, add items, discounts and tips, take payment, and refund if needed.
- Sell, redeem and check a gift card
Sell a gift card as a line on a checkout, pay with one, and look up a balance.
Online booking
What clients can book on their own, and the rules you set.
- Set the rules for online booking
Choose whether online bookings need your approval, how far ahead and how soon clients can book, and what happens to same-day bookings.
- Approve, decline or reschedule an online booking request
Answer the requests that wait in Requests: approve them, decline with a reason, or offer the client up to three other times.
- Find and share your booking link, and add your logo and colour
Copy the link clients use to book, and set the logo and brand colour they see on your booking page and in booking emails.
- What clients see when they book online
The steps on your booking page, from picking pets to the confirmation, so you can answer client questions.
Messages and inbox
Text clients and answer their messages.
- Turn on appointment texts and set the wording
Switch on confirmation, reminder, moved and cancelled texts, edit what they say, and send yourself a test.
- Reply to client messages in the Agent inbox
See conversations from your connected channels, link them to a client, use saved answers and send replies.
Social
Connect channels, make posts and schedule them.
- Connect a social channel
Link a social account once from the Social Groomer area so you can post to it.
- Create a social post and save it as a draft
Write a caption, add photos from your appointments or upload them, pick channels, and save a draft, schedule it or submit it for approval.
Reports and forecast
The dashboard, reports and the forecast.
- Read the forecast: demand, idle weekdays, no-show risk and pay models
What each Forecast tab shows and how it is worked out, and what to do when it says there is not enough history.
- Run a report and download it as a spreadsheet
Pick a report, a period and a grouping, press Show, and save the result as a CSV.
Your account and the app
Sign-in security, connected apps and getting support.
- Turn on two-factor authentication
Add a code from an authenticator app to your sign-in, and keep backup codes.
- Send a bug report or feature request with Get support
Report a problem to the platform team from any page, with a screenshot.
- Sign in, and reset a forgotten password
Sign in with Google or email and password, and get a reset link when you forget your password.