Nine calculators. Operating costs, wages, equipment you will replace, and the pay you actually want. Not a Facebook average.
9
calculators, one per trade we cover
Opex + capex
rent, wages, insurance, the van and the tank
Your numbers
no recommended prices and no market average baked in
Each one uses a different unit and a different cost stack. A groom is not a dog-day. A hydro session is not a walk.
What you need to charge per groom
What you need to charge per dog per day
What you need to charge per night
What you need to charge per walk
What you need to charge per session
What you need to charge per course
What you need to charge per visit
What you need to charge per session
What this site needs to take a week
A published rate does not know your rent, your award bill or the treadmill you still have to replace. Two businesses can charge the same dollar and only one of them is paying the owner.
Each calculator adds the monthly bills, the team, the per-job consumables and a replacement reserve for the kit that wears out. Your target pay and super sit on top. Card fees are grossed up so the price you see is the price you have to put on the list.
Grooming and walking live or die on minutes and cancellations. Daycare and boarding live or die on occupancy. Puppy school lives or dies on fill. Hydro lives or dies on how many sessions that tank actually runs.
Australian-shaped numbers are pre-filled so you can move. Overwrite every line. A $0 you mean is better than a default you did not look at.
After you have a floor, check what published businesses charge on the price index. The two numbers together tell you whether the market pays, or whether the market is the problem.
The model is simple. The inputs are where people lie to themselves.
We built these because owners kept asking what to charge, then quoting a number that could not cover the week. The software it came from runs the bookings and the record of what you actually charged.
