Dog grooming software that guards your diary.
Sable runs the appointment book for dog groomers: services with real durations and prices, online booking that only offers times you can actually do, payment in full at booking so no-shows are rare, and payments that reconcile to the penny. £0 in fees to your business — no monthly fee, no setup fee, no per-booking fee. It brings you customers too, through the app and through AI assistants that can check your live availability — the marketplace's job, without the marketplace's commission. Built and tested every day inside a working pet-care business in Scotland.
Tested every day on real coats, real owners, and real running-late Fridays.A full column of appointments, none of them a surprise.
Up-front payment stops no-shows
Every booking is paid in full when it's requested, against a clear cancellation policy. Decline it, or let it expire, and the customer is refunded automatically. The surest cure for no-shows there is.
Online booking from real availability
Customers pick from the slots your diary can actually take — your durations, your hours, your stations. No double-booking, no phone tennis.
One table or four
Tell Sable how many dogs you groom at once and the diary fills exactly that — a solo groomer or a salon of stations, never overbooked.
One profile per dog
Coat notes, quirks, vet details — captured once, attached to every appointment. The next groom starts where the last one ended.
Money that reconciles
Every payment lands on a ledger that matches your bank account to the penny. No more Sunday-night spreadsheet archaeology.
Ask Sable
Type "who's in on Saturday" and get the answer. No filters, no digging through menus.
Built inside a pet business, not an office.
Sable runs a real working kennels & cattery in Scotland every single day, and the same engine now runs groomers, day care, pet taxis and trainers. When something annoys the person actually doing the work, it gets fixed. That's the whole product philosophy — the features above are the jobs that eat your day, not the ones that demo well.
- 1We come to youFree in-person setup at your salon — services, durations, prices, policies.
- 2Your clients come with youWe migrate your existing client and pet records. Nobody fills in a form twice.
- 3Live in about half an hourFirst real booking taken while we're still in the room.
Asked by groomers, answered straight.
What is the best booking software for a dog groomer in the UK?
The best grooming software is the one that fits how a grooming day actually runs: online booking that only offers times your diary can really take, payment in full at booking so no-shows are rare, one profile per dog with the notes that matter, and payments that reconcile with your bank. Sable does exactly these jobs and bills your business nothing — no monthly fee, no setup fee, no per-booking fee.
How is Sable different from monthly-fee grooming software?
Most grooming software wants a subscription every month, busy or quiet. Sable never bills your business: you receive your full price on every appointment, and where Sable applies a pricing adjustment you receive 20% of it while the customer's all-in price carries Sable's booking-service charge. Sable only earns when your diary fills — a quiet month costs £0. And it's built inside a working pet-care business, so the features are the jobs that actually eat a groomer's day, not the ones that demo well.
Can customers book grooming appointments online?
Yes. Customers pick a service and a time from your live availability — your durations, your working hours, your stations. You stay in charge: every request is paid in full up front and confirmed by you. If you decline, or the request expires, the customer is automatically refunded in full.
What happens when a customer cancels?
If they cancel before your cancellation deadline, 50% of the price is refunded automatically — after it, no refund is due. Requests you haven't accepted yet are always refunded in full, automatically.
Do I have to set it up myself?
No. We come to your salon, configure your services, durations, prices and policies, and migrate your existing client and pet records. Free, and usually done in about half an hour.
Let's have a cuppa.
You pour the tea, we'll do the rest. Also for day care and boarding kennels.