Every groomer knows the problem with putting prices online. A full groom is ninety minutes and thirty-five pounds for a well-kept cockapoo, and it is three hours and a great deal more for a matted golden retriever who has not been near a brush since spring. The same three words on a price list, nowhere near the same job.
So most groomers do not publish prices at all, or publish one number and spend every intake conversation explaining why it does not apply. Meanwhile the booking happens over Facebook Messenger between dogs, at eight in the evening, with the diary in another room.
The way through is to make size and coat part of the booking rather than a conversation afterwards. Set up your services the way you actually charge, small, medium, large or by breed group, each with its own real duration and price. Someone booking a large double-coated dog takes a large double-coated slot in the diary, because that is the slot they chose.
Where a price genuinely cannot be known in advance, show it as "from", take a deposit against that, and settle the rest once the dog is on the table.
