Grooming booked without warehousing the vaccination intake.
Rabies records, bite history, medications, the owner's home address and cell. Your intake describes a whole household and its dog. Harbor delivers the answers and forgets them. Standing every-6-weeks appointments and deposits on the free plan.
Free for solo groomers. No credit card. Your intake never stored.
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Tell us a little about your business and we'll set up a personal demo of Harbor Booking. No pressure, and nothing gets stored that you don't want stored.
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Everything Acuity has. Plus the things they hold back.
The features small businesses actually pay other tools for, included from day one.
SMS reminders
Twenty-four hour and one-hour text reminders fire automatically. Owners can reschedule from the link in the text. Carrier-registered for reliable delivery.
Deposits via Stripe
Charge a percentage of the groom price at booking. Money lands directly in your Stripe account. Per-org refund rules for cancels and reschedules.
Intake questions
Ask breed, coat, vaccination status, temperament, vet contact at booking. Answers go straight to your inbox. Harbor never writes them to a database.
Embeddable widget
Drop a single iframe snippet on Squarespace, Wix, WordPress, or plain HTML. Your customers book without leaving your site.
Auto-waitlist
Table full? Owners join the waitlist with one tap. When someone cancels, the next match gets a book-now link. No staff time required.
Standing appointments
Every four, six, or eight weeks. Up to 26 occurrences booked in one click with automatic conflict detection. Cancel one or cancel the whole series.
Co-branded everything
Your logo and business name appear on the booking page, the admin dashboard, the confirmation emails, and the reschedule pages. Harbor sits underneath as "powered by".
Prices, deposits, buffer time
Per-service pricing and deposit percentage by breed or coat. Buffer minutes before and after each groom so back-to-back slots stop wrecking your day.
Staff scheduling
Shift templates, time tracking, PTO, shift marketplace, internal messaging. Most booking tools make you pay extra. We don't.
A dog's records and an owner's address don't belong in a booking SaaS forever.
Most grooming platforms log every intake answer indefinitely. Rabies certificates, bite incidents, medications, plus the owner's home address and cell — sitting in a database alongside thousands of other clients, waiting for the next breach.
Harbor's intake is pass-through. The answers reach your inbox at booking and disappear from our servers. Your own client cards hold what you actually need groom to groom.
- Intake answers never persisted
- Free-text capped server-side, no LLM piping
- Owner address and cell stay between you and them
- Self-hosted on infrastructure we own
What other tools charge extra for.
Honest comparison. Things Acuity, Square Appointments, and Setmore typically gate behind their higher tiers.
| Feature | Harbor Booking | Typical competitor |
|---|---|---|
| SMS reminders | Included | Paid add-on or per-message |
| Booking deposits | 2% platform fee | Pro tier or higher |
| Embeddable widget | One iframe snippet | Limited on free plan |
| Waitlist with auto-notify | Included | Often missing |
| Standing appointments | Up to 26 in one click | Pro tier |
| Staff scheduling, PTO, time tracking | Included | Separate product |
| Pass-through intake (zero storage) | Harbor only | Stored, indefinitely |
Two prices. No surprises.
Free covers most one-person operations. Pro covers everything else.
Free
For solo operators and small teams.
- Unlimited bookings
- Email reminders
- Embeddable widget
- Pass-through intake
- Waitlist and self-serve reschedule
Pro
Multi-groomer salons and growing shops.
- Everything in Free
- SMS reminders included
- Stripe deposits (2% platform fee)
- Waitlist, standing appts, buffer time
- Unlimited providers and employees
- Staff scheduling, PTO, time tracking
Standing appointments.
Without the standing data exposure.
Free for solo groomers. Every-6-weeks rebooking in one click. Deposits on the long slots that hurt most when they no-show. SMS reminders so the table stays full.
Free for solo groomers. No credit card required.