Why should I use pet care software?
Pet care software is designed to make your life easier and your business more efficient. Here's how:
- Easy scheduling: No more juggling calls or manually updating calendars. The software lets clients book appointments online, based on your real-time availability. It's like having a personal assistant, minus the cost!
- Streamlines payments: Get paid quicker and easier. Clients can pay online when they book, making the process smooth and hassle-free
- Keeps everyone in the loop: Automatic reminders? Yes, please! These nifty emails reduce no-shows and keep your clients informed.
- Organized days: With a clear dashboard, you'll have your day's appointments, client info, and more, all in one place. It's like having a neat, organized desk, but online.
How do I choose the best pet care software?
Selecting the right pet care software can feel like finding the perfect leash for a playful puppy – it needs to be just the right fit! Here's a step-by-step guide to help you make the best choice:
- Identify your needs: First, list what you need. Do you want something simple for booking appointments, or do you need more features like payment processing and customer management?
- Ease of use: Look for software that's easy to navigate. You don't want to spend hours figuring out how to schedule an appointment. A user-friendly interface is key.
- Reliable customer support: Good support is like a trusty vet – always there when you need them. Ensure the software provider offers solid customer service.
- Price matters: Budget is always a consideration. Compare prices, but remember, the cheapest option isn't always the best.
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“Using software helps me spend more time with the pets ”
How does pet care software simplify appointment management?
Think of pet care software as your digital assistant, making appointment management a walk in the park. Here's how it simplifies the whole process:
- 24/7 Online booking: Easy access for clients to book appointments.
- Instant calendar updates: No more manual updates.
- Automated email reminders: Reduce no-shows.
- Super easy CRM: Check anything anywhere.
- Simple rescheduling: Easy for clients to change appointments.
- Daily overview: Quick snapshot of your day's schedule
Don’t get interrupted during work, let your customers book themselves.
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How to get started with pet care software?
Jumping into pet care software is like teaching a new trick to an eager puppy – it's easier than you think! Here's your quick guide to getting started:
- Choose the right software: Start by picking a software that fits your needs. Consider features, ease of use, and pricing and the fact that Vev is the best in the game.
- Set up your account: Once you've chosen your software, it's time to set up your account.
- Customize your booking page: Add a personal touch. Customize the look of your booking page with your business colors, logo, and any other brand elements.
- Integrate your calendar: Sync your existing calendar with the software. This way, you can manage all your appointments in one place and avoid any scheduling conflicts.
- Add payment options: Set up payment processing. This could mean linking your bank account or setting up a payment gateway.
- Train yourself and your team: Spend some time playing around with the software. Get familiar with its features and functionalities. If you have a team, make sure they're trained too.
- Inform your clients: Let your clients know about this new way of booking appointments. You can use email, social media, or whatever method you believe to be best.
Run your pet care business on auto-pilot With your new toolset
Sell
Marketing
Payments
Business
Learn
Auto pilot
Overview
No-shows
Customers
Add your pets and more
Decide what you offer at your salon. Add descriptions for your pets, add an image, and best of all set your own prices.
Your day at a glance
See exactly how much your pet care business makes, what your pet owners schedule most and even learn how they made their appointment.
Schedule again
In just a tap your pet owners become regulars. Get the best date and time for the next appointment. No upcoming appointment? You and your pet owners are reminded to schedule a pet again.
Sell smart
Add options, durations, variations, preparation time, cleanup time and your duration to help your pet owners schedule.
Define your own duration
Some appointments don’t require your attention the whole time, so you can help another pet owner.
Schedule deadline
Choose till what time pet owners can schedule a pet.
Time suggestions
With 'Smart suggestions' you can optimize your day by letting pet owners choose from suggested times. Or choose 'Show all slots', this will show the best times first, but pet owners can then choose to see the full list of time slots.
Hide items
Hide pets so you can only schedule them for your customers.
Sell
Add your pets and more
Decide what you offer at your salon. Add descriptions for your pets, add an image, and best of all set your own prices.
Your day at a glance
See exactly how much your pet care business makes, what your pet owners schedule most and even learn how they made their appointment.
Schedule again
In just a tap your pet owners become regulars. Get the best date and time for the next appointment. No upcoming appointment? You and your pet owners are reminded to schedule a pet again.
Sell smart
Add options, durations, variations, preparation time, cleanup time and your duration to help your pet owners schedule.
Define your own duration
Some appointments don’t require your attention the whole time, so you can help another pet owner.
Schedule deadline
Choose till what time pet owners can schedule a pet.
Time suggestions
With 'Smart suggestions' you can optimize your day by letting pet owners choose from suggested times. Or choose 'Show all slots', this will show the best times first, but pet owners can then choose to see the full list of time slots.
Hide items
Hide pets so you can only schedule them for your customers.
Marketing
Get reviews from pet owners
Without lifting a finger you will receive reviews from your customers. And in the future these will show up on your page.
Share your link
Add your link to your website and socials. A link in bio could boost the appointments of your salon up to 40%.
Custom emails
Change the message of your emails to your pet owners with Vev+. Change the what and when to send.
Embed
Let your customers schedule from your own website.
Cover your pet care business
Add a cover to your header that matches your salon. Impress your pet owners of your pet care business even more.
Schedule with a QR-code
Include your QR code on flyers, business cards, stickers and other placements in your salon to let your pet owners schedule pets by scanning it on their phone.
Policy
Vev automatically sets a policy for you so it's clear for your pet owners what to expect. Works perfectly with payments, deposits and refunds.
Page description
Add a slogan that describes why you're the best pet care business. So your pet owners can spread the word.
Show your colors
Choose how your page looks, so it connects to your salon.
Social handles
Add the profiles of your salon from Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok, X, and your website.
Payments
Scan to Pay
Let your pet owners scan your QR for you to get paid. Vev will keep track of who has paid for their pet so your pet care business administration is always up to date.
Tap to Pay on iPhone
Accept contactless payments with only your iPhone. No extra terminals or hardware needed.
Get paid ahead
Have your pet owners pay ahead for their appointment. Only if you want to, you're the pet care professional, and you are in control.
Deposits
Have your pet owners put down a deposit to get their appointment. This has proven to reduce no-shows.
No extra payment devices
No need to fill in the amount again. Or sync, connect and charge that extra device in your salon. Simply use your phone to have pet owners pay for their pets on the spot.
Discounts
It's easy to give your pet owner a discount on their pet. Choose a percentage or fixed amount. Whatever works best for your pet care business.
Upsell & Tipping
Add a percentage or fixed amount to the price of the appointment, in the simplest way possible for you as a pet care professional.
Refunds
Pet owners who've paid ahead will automatically be refunded when their appointment is cancelled. Yet another thing less to worry about for pet care professionals.
Payments work out of the box
Payments are set up automatically for you. So you can get paid out of the gate. No need for any set up.
Policy
Vev automatically sets a policy for you so it's clear for your pet owners what to expect. Works perfectly with payments, deposits and refunds.
Business
Your overview of pets
See exactly who will get what pet, and at what time the appointment is due.
Your opening hours
You decide when your salon is open (or closed) for appointments.
Capacity
Set up the number of pet owners you can have at the same time.
Choose a time and date
Let your pet owners choose what time works for them. You can decide how strict or flexible you want to be with your time.
Add your breaks
Plan when you want a fixed break. Looking for more flexibility? Turn on smart breaks.
Add 'Me time'
Got a personal appointment? With just a tap you can block time off. This way pet owners can't make an appointment.
Exceptions
Want to open up during public holidays? Or close for a vacation? Your decide when your salon is open.
Schedule deadline
Choose till what time pet owners can schedule a pet.
Export your appointments
Export data of your salon on a monthly basis. Including all the information of your appointments soon this will also include taxes. Giving you all the information you need.
Sync to your calendar
Automatically sync your appointments to your personal calendar app.
Ahead of time
Set up your booking horizon, this let you define how far in the future pet owners are able to schedule pets.
Define your own duration
Some appointments don’t require your attention the whole time, so you can help another pet owner.
Notifications for you
When your pet owner makes an appointment, cancelation or change you will receive a notification.
Time suggestions
With 'Smart suggestions' you can optimize your day by letting pet owners choose from suggested times. Or choose 'Show all slots', this will show the best times first, but pet owners can then choose to see the full list of time slots.
Learn
Your month wrapped up
Every month we email you analytics of last months' appointments, cancelations, most popular pets and revenue. This way you know exactly how your salon is doing.
Your day at a glance
See exactly how much your pet care business makes, what your pet owners schedule most and even learn how they made their appointment.
Auto pilot
Communication made easy
Every appointment, cancellation, change and reminder is automatically sent to your pet owners. Emails are sent in your style so they feel familiar to your pet owners.
Appointment reminders
On the day of the appointment, your pet owner receives a reminder from you. It's send automatically and includes all the information of their pet.
Your month wrapped up
Every month we email you analytics of last months' appointments, cancelations, most popular pets and revenue. This way you know exactly how your salon is doing.
Share your link
Add your link to your website and socials. A link in bio could boost the appointments of your salon up to 40%.
Bookkeeping
Make your administration of your salon run smooth.
Plus, a lot more
There's a lot more coming in Vev+ that will make doing business even easier. But we keep those under wraps for the moment.
Custom emails
Change the message of your emails to your pet owners with Vev+. Change the what and when to send.
Overview
Your overview of pets
See exactly who will get what pet, and at what time the appointment is due.
Your day at a glance
See exactly how much your pet care business makes, what your pet owners schedule most and even learn how they made their appointment.
Delivery overview
See exactly where and at what time you need to deliver pets. Everything shown on an interactive map to make it crystal clear for you!
Calendar view
See all your pet care appointments in a calendar view.
Focus on your pet owners
Your daily overview of pet owners. Showing you exactly who's you will see today, and an easy way to let you schedule again.
Notifications for you
When your pet owner makes an appointment, cancelation or change you will receive a notification.
Sync to your calendar
Automatically sync your appointments to your personal calendar app.
Your month wrapped up
Every month we email you analytics of last months' appointments, cancelations, most popular pets and revenue. This way you know exactly how your salon is doing.
No-shows
Appointment reminders
On the day of the appointment, your pet owner receives a reminder from you. It's send automatically and includes all the information of their pet.
Policy
Vev automatically sets a policy for you so it's clear for your pet owners what to expect. Works perfectly with payments, deposits and refunds.
Change the time
Pet owners can change the time of their upcoming appointment as long as the cancelation deadline hasn't passed.
Add to Calendar
Pet owners can add the appointment to their calendar. This way they receive a notification before their pet. The address, travel time and link to their confirmation page can be found in the event details.
Add to wallet
After pet owners schedule pets, they get a pass for their digital wallet. When added they get a notification on their phone at the right time. The pass contains all the details like; date, time, location, total cost, payment details and link.
Communication made easy
Every appointment, cancellation, change and reminder is automatically sent to your pet owners. Emails are sent in your style so they feel familiar to your pet owners.
Pet owner details
For pet care professionals it's super handy to have all the details of pet owners at their finger tips. Allowing you to send a text, call or email whenever you need.
Cancelation deadline
Decide until what time pet owners can cancel for free. Whenever a cancelation is made, pet owners receive a message including a link to schedule their next pet with your pet care business.
Pet owner history
See exactly what pet your pet owner scheduled before.
Customers
Fields
Soon you can ask your pet owner more specific information to make running your salon even better.
Get reviews from pet owners
Without lifting a finger you will receive reviews from your customers. And in the future these will show up on your page.
Customer management (CRM)
See your pet owners in the best way. This lets you build relationships and get more appointments. And soon you can search and find your most valuable pet owners.
Edit pet owners
Edit pet owner details, merge and remove to keep your pet owner list up to date.
Pet owner details
For pet care professionals it's super handy to have all the details of pet owners at their finger tips. Allowing you to send a text, call or email whenever you need.
Notes
Add notes about your pet owners. These notes show up around the appointment, so you can pick up the conversation with your pet owner where you left off last time.
Focus on your pet owners
Your daily overview of pet owners. Showing you exactly who's you will see today, and an easy way to let you schedule again.
Schedule again
In just a tap your pet owners become regulars. Get the best date and time for the next appointment. No upcoming appointment? You and your pet owners are reminded to schedule a pet again.
It's your data
It's your data. The pet owner information is yours. Vev doesn't sell, resell, target or advertise with the data from your pet care business. Of course not!
Pet owner history
See exactly what pet your pet owner scheduled before.