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Put regular grooms and walks on a repeating schedule, keep each pet's details on the owner's profile and sell treats and shampoo at checkout. Payaroo helps you set up Square's booking tools around your day.
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What your pet business needs
The dog is the client, but the owner books, pays and worries. Every visit depends on details someone has to remember: the doodle who hates the dryer, the terrier who slips his harness, the code for the side gate.
Most of the calendar repeats: a groom every few weeks, a midday walk every weekday, a training class every Saturday. The right setup books those visits once, keeps the notes where your team can find them and gets you paid at the grooming table or on a client's front porch.
Rebooking every walk and groom by text eats your evenings.
How Square helps Book regulars as recurring appointments on the Square Appointments calendar, and owners get automatic reminders before each visit.
Temperament, allergies, the last cut and the vet's phone number live in your head or a notebook.
How Square helps Keep pet details as dated notes on the owner's profile and attach files like vaccination records, so any groomer or walker can check them before the visit.
A missed grooming appointment leaves a table and a groomer idle for two hours.
How Square helps On a paid plan, show a cancellation policy when owners book, require a card to hold the appointment and charge a no-show or late-cancel fee to it.
Owners ask for the shampoo you used or a bag of the treats their dog loved.
How Square helps Add retail items to the appointment at checkout, with stock counts and low-stock alerts, and scan them with Square Handheld's built-in scanner.
Recommended setup
The Square tools that matter most for a pet business — and why each one earns its place.
Online booking, repeat visits, reminders and staff calendars for groomers, walkers and trainers in one app.
Book a regular walk or groom once and it repeats on the calendar, so standing clients stay on the schedule.
Each pet's name, breed, quirks and last cut on the owner's profile, with files like vaccination records attached.
A card on file and a clear cancellation policy protect grooming slots from last-minute no-shows.
Sell a bundle of training sessions up front, and each session is applied automatically when the owner books.
Run group puppy or obedience classes with a set number of spots owners reserve online.
Rings up treats, toys and shampoo with its built-in scanner and takes payment at the table or the front desk.
Connect pet-business software such as MoeGo or ProPet; those integrations are built and supported by their makers.
How Payaroo helps
Tell us how your business works. We'll help you understand the Square tools that fit.
Core capabilities
Set services at the client's location so owners book a van visit at home. Collecting their address online needs a paid plan. Square won't add drive time between houses on its own, so leave room for it in each service's length.
Sell a set of training sessions as a prepaid package, in person or online. Square applies a session each time the owner books, and packages expire within a year. Packages need a paid plan.
On a paid plan, set the spots, assign a trainer and run a recurring puppy class that owners reserve online. Changing a class's date or time cancels and refunds everyone booked, so lock the schedule in first.
Send a boarding or daycare agreement through Square Contracts for owners to sign online. On a paid plan it can go out automatically when someone books a service, though automatic forms don't work with classes.
Owners add a tip on Square Register, Stand or Terminal, or in the POS app on a phone or tablet, choosing one of your presets or entering their own amount.
Bill a monthly daycare plan with Square Subscriptions on a paid plan. It charges the owner on schedule but doesn't count the days a dog has used, so track attendance separately.
Hardware options
You don't need every device. Start with what matches where you take payments — and add more later.
A pocket-sized point of sale with a built-in barcode scanner and camera.
A built-in scanner and camera for ringing up retail, plus tap and chip payments anywhere in the shop.
A countertop point of sale with two touchscreens: one for your team and one that faces the customer.
A two-screen front desk for grooming salons and daycares, where owners tip and pay on their own side.
A countertop stand that turns a compatible iPad into a point of sale, with a card reader built in.
Turns an iPad into the front desk and swivels to the owner to tip and pay.
Accept contactless cards and phone wallets on your own phone with no extra hardware.
Walkers and sitters take contactless cards on their own phone at the door, no reader needed. It needs a data connection.
Software and tools
Recurring appointments, classes, packages, reminders and no-show protection for your services.
Owner profiles with pet notes, attached files and visit history.
Automatic welcome and win-back emails, plus texts to owners who opted in.
Schedules and timecards for groomers, bathers and kennel staff, with custom permissions.
Pet-business software such as MoeGo and ProPet, plus Acuity Scheduling and QuickBooks, from third-party makers.
How it works
One realistic day at a pet business, with the setup above doing the work.
Setup finder
Answer a few quick questions about your pet business. We'll stop as soon as we can point you to a useful starting setup.
Tell Buckaroo how your business works and he'll help you figure out which Square tools make sense.
FAQs
A front desk can run Square Register, or Square Stand if you already have an iPad, and owners tip and pay on their side. Square Handheld's built-in scanner rings up treats and shampoo anywhere in the shop. Walkers, sitters and mobile groomers can use Tap to Pay on a phone or pair Square Reader for chip cards.
Yes. Square Appointments lets you book regular clients on a repeating schedule from the calendar, and owners get automatic reminders before each visit. Square's pet services page calls out recurring appointments for grooms, walks and training.
Square's client profiles belong to the owner rather than the pet, but you can add dated notes about each animal, such as breed, temperament, allergies and grooming style, and attach files like vaccination records.
Yes, on a paid Square plan. Packages bundle sessions an owner pays for up front and are applied automatically when they book; they expire within one year. Classes set a number of spots and a trainer for single or recurring sessions, but they can't use the waitlist or automatic forms.
Not necessarily. Square Appointments handles booking, reminders, repeat visits and payments on its own. If you'd rather use pet-specific software, Square's pet services page names integrations such as MoeGo and ProPet in the App Marketplace. They're built and supported by those companies, so check what each one syncs.
Square sets its own pricing. On Square Free there's no monthly subscription, just processing fees on each payment, and you get a free online booking site and client profiles with notes. Square Plus and Premium add no-show fees, packages, classes, staff scheduling and marketing. Check Square's pricing page for current rates, and we'll help you decide whether your book of regulars calls for a paid plan.
Tell us which services you offer and how owners book today. When you apply, Square reviews the application and verifies your identity and your business before deciding on approval. Payaroo then helps you set up services, recurring clients, pet notes and your booking site.
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