Late pick-ups that stack up
A dog is ready at noon and the owner arrives at one, with the next dog waiting in the hall. The day runs on goodwill.
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One dog at a time, booked simply, from home
You groom in a garage or spare room, one dog at a time. Owners drop off and collect, and the day follows how long each dog takes.
- 0% commission on every booking, including a first booking. CA$29 a month for the Founding 50, then CA$49, one price for the whole team.
- Live in 48 hours from your Fresha export: booking page, calendar and reminders. Card payments start when you are ready: connect Stripe, or keep your current card machine and record payments in Fairbooked.
What gets in the way for home-based pet groomers
Owners who guess the breed
Someone books a bath for what turns out to be a matted doodle. An hour becomes three, and the price was wrong.
No-shows when the dog is not a priority
A missed groom is an empty table, but owners treat it as minor. A policy they agreed at booking works better than a reminder.
How Fairbooked fits home-based pet groomers
The pet's details with the booking
The page asks for the pet's name and its breed and size, and both show on your appointment. You can price the real job first.
Services set by dog size
List small, medium and large grooms as separate services, each with its own time and a buffer to clean the table.
A deposit and a reminder
Ask for a deposit on a full groom once you connect Stripe, and set the notice you need. Reminders go by email and text.
A starting service list for home-based pet groomers
An example only. Every name, length and price here is a placeholder you change or delete when you set up your own list.
- Bath and brush1 hCA$65
- Full groom, small dog1 h 30 minCA$90
- Full groom, medium dog2 hCA$115
- Full groom, large dog2 h 30 minCA$145
- Nail trim only15 minCA$20
- Cat grooming1 hCA$90
Your maths, on a CA$95 full groom
Fresha lists 20% on a new marketplace client's first booking (minimum CA$6): CA$19.00. We take 0%. For an in-person card Fresha lists 2.29% + CA$0.20, Interac included: CA$2.38. A Stripe Interac tap is CA$0.15. The calculator below opens on 55 card visits a month and one person; change any number to match yours.
What would Fresha cost you, next to us?
Put in your own numbers. We work out Fresha's monthly bill from its published prices, and ours as Stripe's card rates plus our flat monthly price, and show every line of both. The figures start on an example home-based pet groomer.
You would keep
CA$564 a year
That is CA$47.02 a month, 29.6% less than Fresha.
- Fresha, per month
- CA$158.74
- With us, per month
- CA$111.72
Rates as of September 2026. Fresha can change its prices. With us means Stripe's published Canadian card rates, paid to Stripe, plus our CA$29 a month. Card reader optional for deposits and no-show fees. For in-person tap checkout, Stripe readers from about CA$79 (Bluetooth) or CA$419 (countertop, S700).
How we calculated this
LineFreshaWith us
Software subscriptionFreshaCA$29.95CA$29.95 (Independent plan)With usCA$29.00CA$29 Founding 50 price, locked 24 months, for the whole team
Card fees, in personFreshaCA$106.282.29% + CA$0.20 on CA$4,250.00 across 44.7 paymentsWith usCA$58.60Stripe, paid to Stripe: 23.7 Interac taps × CA$0.15, plus 2.7% + CA$0.05 on CA$2,000.00 of credit across 21.1 payments
Card fees, onlineFreshaCA$22.512.79% + CA$0.20 on CA$750.00 across 7.9 paymentsWith usCA$24.12Stripe, paid to Stripe: 2.9% + CA$0.30 on the same payments
New-client commissionFreshaCA$0.0020% of the ticket (minimum CA$6.00) × 0 new clientsWith usCA$0.000%, never charged on any booking, including a first booking
Total per monthCA$158.74CA$111.72
Savings = Fresha's total minus ours = CA$47.02 a month, times 12 = CA$564.24 a year. We assume 85% of card volume is taken in person and the rest online, that 45% of it is Interac debit in person at CA$0.15 a tap, and that the number of payments is card volume divided by your average ticket.
What this does and does not include
- Fresha's prices are the ones on its own pricing page as of September 2026, and it can change them. Check fresha.com/pricing before you decide anything.
- Fresha says its 20% new-client fee applies only to clients who first find you on its marketplace, and that returning clients pay nothing. Enter only the clients you would expect Fresha to count. Fresha also says the fee has a maximum cap that its pricing page does not state, so on large tickets we may overstate it.
- We leave out Fresha's per-tap surcharge, text messages beyond the free allowance, premium support, add-ons and terminal hardware. Every one of those makes Fresha dearer, so leaving them out favours Fresha.
- Taxes are excluded on both sides. Payout timing, chargebacks and your bank's own fees are not modelled.
- The savings estimate uses Stripe's published Canadian card rates (2.7% + CA$0.05 in person, CA$0.15 flat for Interac debit, 2.9% + CA$0.30 online), paid to Stripe directly; we make nothing on card payments. It is modelled on a typical Toronto card mix (45% Interac debit in person, the rest credit), so your real Stripe bill will differ with your own mix. Rates read from stripe.com/en-ca/pricing in September 2026; check the page before you decide.
- Card reader optional for deposits and no-show fees. For in-person tap checkout, Stripe readers from about CA$79 (Bluetooth) or CA$419 (countertop, S700).
- We launch in Toronto first. The savings estimate is modelled with Stripe's Canadian rates, in Canadian dollars. UK and US figures reuse the same Canadian model and the same subscription number in local currency as an indication only. Fresha's UK prices are unverified: we could only read them on two competitor sites.
Questions from home-based pet groomers
Something else? Ask us on the switch form and a person will answer.
Keep what you earn.
Start your own booking page, or ask us to move you over from Fresha. A named person replies on WhatsApp, usually within the hour during business hours.