You wouldn't take your dog to a barbershop for a groom. So why run your Darwin salon on barbershop software?
Full Groom tomorrow · 9:30 AM
Whether you are opening your first salon or switching from software that never understood grooming, here is what makes the difference.
Bookings, SMS reminders, card-on-file payments, client records and your daily run sheet in one place. Retire the paper diary, the card machine app and the spreadsheet.
No per-seat fees, no module unlocks, no hidden costs. Add a second groomer or a third station without the bill moving.
Body-area grooming notes, breed and coat profiles and station capacity all came from time spent inside established salons and boutique one-person studios. Notes and profiles follow the pet, so any groomer on shift can pick up a regular and repeat the usual style.

Bella
Plenty of salons grow into daycare, boarding or puppy grooms. Every Petboost service category is individually designed, so expanding never means a second system.
Bella
Full Groom
Coco
Bath & Tidy
Pepper
Daycare
Bandit
Overnight Stay
Ziggy
Puppy Intro Groom
We bring across your clients, pets, grooming notes and packages from your current software or spreadsheets. Simulate Pet Owner shows exactly what your clients will see when they book, before you go live.
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From solo groomers to multi-station salons, we have a plan that fits your workflow.
For smaller salons
AUD
Over -
Best For
Grooming salons with 1-2 stations ready to take online bookings, reduce no-shows, and automate client follow-ups.
“I'm losing bookings to groomers with online booking. I need to modernise without the complexity.”
For busier salons
AUD
Appointments
Best For
Grooming salons booking more appointments and sending more reminders than Pro includes. Every feature, with more room.
“We've outgrown our appointment allowance. I want room to grow without paying for features we already have.”
For established salons
AUD
Over -
Best For
Multi-groomer salons with 3+ stations, multiple team members, and high appointment volumes needing enterprise reliability.
“We need one system the whole team can rely on: consistent, scalable, and professional.”
Included on every plan
Every plan has every feature. Pick by how busy you are, and change any month.
Generic booking tools don't understand grooming. Darwin businesses need a dog grooming booking system designed for how they actually work.
AUD pricing and invoices with your ABN, built from every appointment. No converting from USD.
Australian-founded and operated, with support in AEST and AEDT business hours, not when a US team wakes up on Monday.
Automated SMS reminders from an Australian number. With Communications Booster, get your own local number from Settings, verified in the app, usually within one to three business days. 50%+ of appointments are now self-service.
A free, SEO-optimised microsite with your services, pricing, and online booking. Branded with your colours.

Pawfect GroomingDog grooming in Marrickville
Open until 5:00pm · 3 services
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For new and existing clients
Set capacity per station, not daily limits. See availability across all tables. Colour-coded calendar shows exactly when each station is free.
Weight Restrictions (kg)
Only pets in this weight range can book
Min weight
Max weight
Age Restrictions
Only pets in this age range can book
Min age
Max age
Included Breeds
Excluded Breeds
Create XS, S, M, L, XL grooming tiers with different prices and durations. Customers only see services their pet qualifies for. No more phone calls clarifying "is my dog small or medium?"
Grooming Templates keep notes for Head and Face, Body and Tail, and Feet and Legs on every pet, with reference photos, beside attributes such as coat type and blade. Your knowledge is never lost when staff change.
Round teddy-bear face, scissor finish, leave 2 cm. Go slow near the eyes - sensitive. No clipper on the muzzle.
Blade #7 reverse on the body, natural tail lightly tidied. Brush out matting behind the ears first.
Automatic Actions
Auto-start appointments
At the scheduled start time
Auto-complete appointments
When the appointment duration ends
Auto-finalise appointments
Generate the invoice and prepare for payment
Auto-pay invoices
Charge the card on file as soon as the invoice is finalised
With Pre-hold funds on, the card is held 72 hours before. SMS reminders at your intervals, once switched on. A card on file before an online booking completes. Record a no-show, choose Charge Cancellation Fee, and it goes on the card on file.
Set Bella's full groom to repeat every 6 weeks. Petboost books the whole series, holds each slot, and reminds the owner before every visit. Your calendar fills itself.
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Pawfect Unlimited
Plan Summary
Bundle a monthly groom, unlimited nail trims and retail discounts into a membership. Stripe bills it automatically, benefits track themselves, and your revenue becomes predictable.
Attach a set of booking properties to the attributes you already use. It can adjust the price, add or take away minutes, and cap how many pets carrying those attributes you take at once.
Add Booking Properties
Applies to attributes
Pets carrying any of the selected attributes get these booking properties.
Price adjustment
Duration change
Attendance cap
Limit how many pets carrying these attributes can be in at the same time.
Required for these services
The pet must have these attributes to book. Same rule as Required badges on the service.
Blocked from these services
Any of these attributes blocks the booking. Same rule as Blocked badges on the service.






Kiwi
Bichon Frise
Rosie
Cavoodle
Overdue petsa bulk message segment with Communications Booster
Petboost learns each pet's normal rhythm from their real appointment history and flags them once they slip past it.
These aren't trivial feature differences. They're architectural advantages that solve real customer pain points.
Automate as much or as little as you want, from booking to payment. With customers booking for themselves, day or night, the admin looks after itself and your front desk stays calm. Customers book, confirm, pay, and get reminded without a single phone call.
Two modes for different workflows. Magic Availability Check handles availability-checked bookings with confidence. Quick Create gives you direct control to schedule without restrictions.
Get paid automatically with Auto-pay invoices. Built-in invoices branded with your logo, colours & ABN. Stripe Bank Feeds carry card payments into Xero for your bookkeeper to reconcile. We use Stripe under the hood to securely manage all payment processing.
Customers buy 10-walk bundles at 3am and redeem credits as they book. Lock in prepaid revenue.
Set precise limits for every kennel, play area, grooming station, and van, and online bookings never go past them.
Purpose-built for dog trainers. Not recurring appointments pretending to be courses.
Dozens of automated insights analyse your revenue, team, services, customers, and geography. Period-over-period comparisons, forecasting, and ready-to-use email templates.
Design Principle
Not mobile-friendly. Mobile-native. 100% feature parity across desktop, tablet, and phone. We even wrote custom drag-and-drop code for iPad.
When your team adds customer-facing notes or photos to a visit, the pet owner can open a visual report card with them, plus a gentle nudge to rebook and leave a Google review.


Jess
at Pawfect Grooming

Kiwi loved their time at Pawfect Grooming. Book their next full groom
Pawfect Grooming recommends a visit every 6 weeks.
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Included when you book again
Pet owners are prompted to leave a Google review, right when they feel most connected to your business.
How was Kiwi's experience with Pawfect Grooming?
Report cards are included on every Petboost plan. Notes, photos, rebook prompts and a Google review prompt, built from what your team already records. Texting a card needs Communications Booster or Enterprise.
Trusted Industry Infrastructure
Powering businesses Australia-wide big & small
300+
pet businesses
500,000+
bookings processed
9
specialised business types
Shown at a regional level. Exact locations and counts are never disclosed.
Google reviews are the lifeblood of grooming businesses. Petboost makes it easy to ask every client for a review right after their groom, with a personalised message ready to go.
A quick Google review helps Hound Health Bondi and other pet owners find great care.
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Plenty of grooming salons also run daycare, boarding or training. Petboost handles every service type in one system, so a pet's whole day lands on one calendar, one invoice and one profile, with no duplicate data entry. Add a daycare room or a boarding run later without changing software.
Built for hybrid pet businesses
When a daycare client also books a groom, both services appear on the same calendar, the same invoice, and the same customer profile. Your team sees everything in one place.
See how multi-service businesses use PetboostHonest, side-by-side comparisons to help you choose the right dog grooming booking system for your Darwin business.
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Compare featuresThe Northern Territory stays on central standard time all year: half an hour behind Sydney from April to October, and an hour and a half behind while Sydney is on daylight saving.
The City of Darwin covers the city itself, and our council directory found no animal business permit on its own pages. Of its neighbours, Palmerston and Litchfield have none, so check the council your premises sits in. The Territory has no pet business licence of its own.
Open the permits mapWhich approval pathway your premises is on, and how to find out before you sign a lease.
Read the guideNational median $107.50 across 20 Australian salons. A city figure needs five local prices, and the index holds fewer for Darwin.
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