Free software for your school.
A head start for your students.
Partner with GroomSlot and run your training salon on a free account. Every student you qualify gets their first year for £180 instead of £240, and a session from us on the business side of grooming.
No cost to the school. No sales targets. No exclusivity.
What a graduate's first customer looks like
Scroll through one booking with a graduate three weeks into her new business. These are the real screens, from our demo salon.
A customer books online, out of hours
A dog owner opens your graduate's booking page in the evening, picks a service and a time, and books. The breed price is already set. No phone call, no messages back and forth.
The deposit is paid at the same time
The deposit goes through as part of the booking and shows in the diary. A no-show now costs the owner, not the groomer. Works with Stripe, Square, SumUp or Lopay.
The reminder goes out the day before
By email, WhatsApp or SMS, at the time and in the style your graduate chose. The owner can reply if something has changed.
Everything about the dog is on one screen
Breed, weight, behaviour notes, vaccinations, vet details. Your graduate marks the groom done and takes the balance. The record updates itself.
The next visit is booked before it is forgotten
Fill My Diary shows which dogs are due back and sends the rebooking message in one tap. A first-time customer becomes a regular.
The review request goes out that evening
A couple of hours after the groom, the owner gets a link to leave a Google review. Reviews start in week one, not year one.
What GroomSlot did
- Took the booking
- Took the deposit
- Sent the reminder
- Took the balance and updated the record
- Rebooked the dog
- Asked for the review
Why schools partner with us
Students who start organised stay in the trade. That reflects on you, and they come back to say so.
Your own account, free
Book model dogs, keep owner records and send reminders on it. Students watch it work for weeks before they graduate.
The business unit, on real software
Salon management is already on the syllabus. Teach it on the system your graduates will actually use.
You can see what happened
Every student who signs up with your code appears on your page: on trial, paying, or not.
Built here, supported here
A UK product with the founder on the end of the email. Your students get a person, not a ticket queue.
What you get
The partner pack, and what we ask in return.
A free GroomSlot account for the school
Model-dog bookings, owner and pet records, reminders. No monthly fee for as long as we work together.
The graduate offer, with your name on it
Your own link and code. Students get the first year for £180 instead of £240 after the free 30-day trial.
A session for each cohort
Twenty minutes online with the founder, on the business side. Educational, not a sales pitch. Recorded if that suits you better.
The words, written for you
A graduation email to paste, a one-page handout for the startup pack, and a line for your student group.
A named contact for your students
When a graduate gets stuck, they message a person who knows they came from you. Free import of any client list they already have.
The student offer
£180 first year
Instead of £240. After a free 30-day trial, no card needed. Every feature, nothing stripped out.
See the page your students will seeWhat we ask
- Tell your students the offer exists
- Share the link once per cohort
What we never ask
- Selling or sales targets
- Exclusivity
- Admin on your side
This is for providers whose students go on to groom for a living: City & Guilds, iPET, OCN and similar routes, independent academies, and tutors running career courses. We would rather have three partners whose graduates open businesses than thirty logos.
Questions tutors ask
Does it cost the school anything?
No. The school's account is free for as long as we are partners, and the student offer is funded by us. The one thing with a cost is text messages, which are bought in packs; email reminders are included.
What do you ask in return?
That your students hear the offer exists: in the graduation email, in the startup pack, or in the session we run. There are no sales targets and no exclusivity. If you also recommend another system, that is fine.
Do you pay commission?
Not at the moment. Every student who signs up with your code is tracked, so if the partnership brings real customers we can talk about what is fair, openly, with the numbers in front of us.
Can a student use it before they have started trading?
Yes. The 30-day free trial starts when they sign up, with no card needed. Most set up their services and price list while they are still finding premises or a van.
Is it only for salons?
Salon, home-based and mobile. Mobile groomers get travel-aware availability and route planning, so a student who goes mobile is covered from day one.
What about students in Ireland?
GroomSlot runs in euros for Irish businesses, with Irish phone numbers and SumUp or Stripe for deposits.
A short call, then your account
Tell us about your courses and roughly how many students qualify each year. We will set the school's account up, send the pack, and book the first session around your next cohort.
Prefer email? hello@groomslot.co.uk