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A paper appointment book and a stack of index cards on a wooden table, beside grooming scissors and a slicker brush on a folded white towel, a coiled red lead, sticky notes, a phone face down and a mug of coffee.

Is this your rebook list?

The scheduling app for dog and cat groomers. $9/month flat — you and up to four helpers included, unlimited owners and appointments.

Start your free month

1 month free. No card.

Your free month

It fits, because somebody makes it fit.

Tell us how you run things. We build the rest.

  • First

    Start the free month

    Your email and your business name. That is the whole signup. 1 month free. No card.

  • Then

    Write to us in the app

    Talk to Anda is a screen in the app, and a real person reads it. Say what is missing, how you colour your calendar, which screens you never use. Several of the screens on this page began as one customer writing to say what she was missing.

    Rather not start with an empty calendar? Send your client list, a spreadsheet, or a photo of your paper diary to contact@tendmatehq.com, and we set it up for you before you log in. Included in the price.

  • By the end

    An app that fits your business

    What you ask for gets built, free, and it arrives for everyone. Your job types, your colours, only the screens you use. $9 a month after, you and up to four helpers included.

One price. That is the whole pricing page.

$9per month, flat

1 month free. No card.

  • You and up to four helpers. More are $1 a month each.
  • Unlimited clients, unlimited visits. No appointment caps.
  • Phone and laptop, always in sync — and it works with no signal.
  • Your schedule fills itself in from how often each client is due.
  • Setup done for you, free — send your client list or a photo of your spreadsheet.
  • One-click export, no contract, cancel any time.

Already in another app, or in a spreadsheet?

Send it to us as it is: an export, the sheet, or a photo of your diary. We bring your clients, how often each one is due, your prices and your history across before you log in. It is free, and your old app keeps working while you decide.

Founding members keep $9/month for good. We expect to settle at $12.

Before you start

Questions people ask

Does it text or email my clients?

Not yet, and if you want it, ask: a feature a customer asks for gets built, and it is free. Emails to your clients would cost you nothing. Text messages would be a small package, because the SMS providers charge for every message sent, not us. Today TendMate keeps the schedule and the records, and you message your clients the way you already do. For somebody who asked for a price it keeps the message you sent and what they replied.

Can my clients book online?

Not yet. Your work is the same clients coming round again and again, so the calendar fills itself in from how often each one is due, and a new enquiry is written down as a lead with the day to come back to them. If your clients want to book themselves, say so: a calendar you share with your free days, where a client picks one, is the kind of thing we build for the person who asks, at no extra cost. We will work out together what suits your business best.

What does a helper see?

The schedule, the addresses and the notes for the work she is sent to, on her own phone. Not your prices, your expenses or your totals. You choose, screen by screen, what each helper can open.

What if I have more than four helpers?

Contact us. Extra seats are $1 a month each, and we add them for you. Tell us how you run them too: if you want them in teams, or there is something that would make managing them easier, that is exactly the kind of thing we build for you, free.

Does it work without signal?

Yes. Everything you need is on the phone already, and it catches up when you are back in range.

I already have a spreadsheet, or another app. What happens to it?

Send it to us: a spreadsheet, a CSV, an export from another app, or a photo of your paper diary. We bring your clients, your schedule and your history across before you log in, and that is included in the price.

What happens after the free month?

$9 a month, flat, for you and up to four helpers. No card is taken during the month, so nothing is charged unless you choose to carry on. Cancel any time and export everything, clients, visits and history, in one click.

Your rebook list is a stack of index cards.

Not because you like it. Because grooming software starts at $49 a month for one groomer — MoeGo's basic plan — and the cheaper end is a booking page that knows nothing about the dog.

So the doodle that needs doing every six weeks gets remembered when the owner rings, which is usually two weeks late and matted. That is the whole problem we are solving.

Today, and after

Why a card file stops telling you who is due

  • The next date

    On the spreadsheet

    Nearly every card file we have seen has the same flaw: it holds the next appointment. That works until one owner pushes a fortnight, one dog goes from eight weeks to six for the summer, and one cat only comes when the mats are bad. Now every date after that is wrong, and the only way to fix it is to go through the box again.

    In TendMate

    The fix is small and it changes everything: record the last groom, not the next one — per pet, because the two dogs in one house are on two clocks. The last groom is a fact; the next one is arithmetic:

    Next due = Last groomed + Interval (in days)

    4 weeks = 28 · 6 weeks = 42 · 8 weeks = 56 · 12 weeks = 84 · Only when booked = no interval

    Push a booking, change one dog's cycle for the season — you only ever update one thing, and every date after it corrects itself. That is the whole trick, and it is what TendMate is built around.

What you get

  • One clock per pet

    A household with a doodle on six weeks and a terrier on twelve is two clocks under one owner. Each pet carries its own cycle, its usual service and its price, and comes due on its own.

  • The card, on the phone

    Breed, size, the usual cut, temperament, allergies and the vaccination date sit on the pet, and whoever is holding the clippers sees them. Deposits and balances sit on the appointment.

  • You and your helpers, flat

    $9/month covers you and up to four helpers. More helpers are $1 a month each. No cap on owners or appointments. A helper sees the day — the pet, the cut, the notes — and not what you charge for it.

  • It works in the van

    Everything you need is on the phone already, so a driveway with no signal is not a problem. It catches up when you come back out.

  • Your data stays yours

    Export everything — owners, pets, appointments, history — in one click, any time. No contract, cancel whenever, and take your data with you.

Built for you if…

  • The same dogs come back on a rough cycle and you are tired of working out who is due.
  • You have more than one pet in some households and want each on its own schedule.
  • You take a deposit on a first booking and want the balance in front of you on the day.
  • You have a second groomer or a bather and need to share the day without sharing the prices.
  • You want something genuinely simple — not “simple” with forty settings.
Start your free month

1 month free. No card. Your email and your business details — that is the whole signup.