Price the groom from your real costs, not the shop down the street. Free, no signup.
Compares your real take-home per hour (after products and travel) against your target rate.
Price the groom from your real costs, not whatever the shop down the street charges. Start with your target hourly rate and your product cost per groom, both preloaded with editable defaults. Choose Salon or Mobile; mobile adds travel minutes, which are billed at your hourly rate, plus miles at a per-mile driving cost, because mobile groomers routinely give travel away for free.
Pick the service, size, coat type, and coat condition. The tool starts from base minutes per service and size, then applies coat and condition multipliers, since a matted doodle is not a smooth beagle. Add any extras with their editable prices. The quote rounds up to a clean dollar, and a pelted coat triggers a warning to price a shave-down consult instead of dematting.
Finally, enter what you would actually charge for the groom, and the reality check compares your real take-home per hour, after products and travel, against your target rate with a PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE BUT LEAKING, or UNDERPRICED verdict.
Example only, not typical earnings/pricing/numbers. A bath and brush on a small dog with a curly coat and light tangles: 40 base minutes x 1.35 coat multiplier x 1.15 condition multiplier = 62.1 minutes. Labor is 62.1 / 60 x $50 = $51.75, plus $4 products and a $12 nail grind add-on = $67.75, which rounds up to a $68 quote for about 1 hour and 2 minutes of your time. Enter $75 as what you would actually charge, and the reality check gives ($75 - $4) / 1.035 hours = $68.60 per hour, which beats the $50 target: PRICED RIGHT.
Because the tool bills travel time at your hourly rate and adds a per-mile driving cost. Mobile groomers often absorb travel silently; this makes the cost visible so you can charge for it.
Severely matted coats often need a shave-down consult, not dematting. The tool warns that dematting a pelted dog can be inhumane and wrecks your tools, so price the shave-down instead of the hours.
No. They are planning starting points, not industry standards, and your timing will differ. Adjust your rate and inputs until the quote matches the pace you actually work at.
It takes what you would actually charge, subtracts product and mileage costs, and divides by total hours including travel. That effective hourly rate is compared to your target, and the verdict tells you if you are hitting it.
It rounds up to the nearest dollar for a clean, quotable number. The unrounded price is shown in the breakdown if you want the exact figure.