Some clients will always ask if there is a deal. Now you can have one ready, with the rules you would have explained at the counter built in.
Discounts & Deals is live for every Petboost business. It sits in the sidebar under Marketing & Sales, or under What you sell if Marketing & Sales is not on your account. Here is how to create a discount code in Petboost, and what else the new section does.
2 tabs: Discounts and Deals
Discounts take money off a booking: % off takes a share off the price and $ off takes an amount off the booking once. A client can type the code when they book online, it can apply by itself, or both.
Deals carry the saving inside one booking:
- A Bundle is 2 or more services booked together for one price, such as a Full Groom and Nail Clip for $95
- Book more, save more lowers the price the more they book, such as any 2 pamper extras for $25 or 3 for $35
- A Free extra adds an add-on at $0 when they book a service, such as a Nail Trim with every Full Groom
Packages and memberships stay their own features. You can now run an offer on them too: a sale on a pack, or an intro price for a new member's first payments.
How to create a discount code
- Open Discounts & Deals and select New discount. A 5-step guide opens: What kind, The offer, Who and when, How they get it and Check and save.
- On What kind, choose % off or $ off.
- On The offer, enter the amount, then choose Everything or Choose services.
- On Who and when, choose Who can use it and set the Visit dates.
- On How they get it, type a Code of 4 to 20 letters and numbers or select Generate, then turn on Customers can type it when booking online, Apply automatically, or both.
- On Check and save, read the Offer terms, tick I have reviewed these terms and select Go live.
A code clients can type adds Have a discount code? to the last step of your booking page. Your team can add any code to a booking from its invoice.
The rules you would have explained yourself
Who can use it covers Everyone, First-time customers, Chosen customers, Pets in their birthday month and Customers who have not been back. The birthday and win-back choices text each client a code of their own in the morning, only to clients who said yes to marketing. Those texts need a paid plan and an active dedicated number, and use your SMS credits.
Turn on Advanced options for the rest: weekdays and times of day, last minute or book ahead, a minimum number of pets, a limit per day, week or month, total uses, one use per customer, a minimum spend, a release time and an expiry date. Members get whichever is cheaper lets a code beat a member price on a visit where it saves more.
A few things always hold. One code per booking. A repeating booking uses the code on every visit that qualifies. Cancelling a booking gives its use back. And a paid or finished booking is never repriced.
Show it on your booking page
Show on your listing puts an offer for Everyone in the Deals section of your booking page, with a Book with this deal button. Add Show a countdown and Show how many are left and clients see the end coming and the real places left, such as 18 of 40.
Every live offer also has a booking link. A discount's link opens your booking page with its code on; a bundle's opens it with the services already picked. Petboost sends nothing to clients by itself, so you put the link where you want it: a post, a newsletter, a text.
Bundles have their own page
Bundles also sit under What you sell, next to Packages. Each tile shows the services, the bundle price, a green Save badge and the usual price for one pet. New bundle builds one on a single screen. A bundle that applies automatically to Everyone, with no limit, shows as a tile on your booking form, so clients can pick the pair in one tap.
See what it did
Open any offer and select Results. Total usage, Total clients, Discount sales and Total sales show what it brought in and what it took off, and the History log lists every booking that used it.
Getting started
Black Friday is Friday 27 November, so it is a good first offer. Our guide to running a Black Friday offer covers the setup step by step, and bundle pricing strategy covers how to price a pair.
The Petboost Academy has the full guide to Discounts & Deals, and the Discounts & Deals page shows every screen.
Not on Petboost yet? Book a demo and we will build your first offer with you.
