BusyPaws

RATING:

4.64

(14)

About BusyPaws

BusyPaws is a best-in-class booking, payments and CRM solution for pet care businesses. Using the most current best practices BusyPaws ensures that your clients and prospective clients find their way to securing your services as quickly and easily as possible. Once registered, you may directly message (email or SMS) clients from their profiles or within the message center, send and generate invoices, collect payment, add notes and pictures, send report cards, and more. Get a clear picture of the activity within your business via real-time reports. For enterprises with multiple locations or franchises we offer built-in support for segmenting clients and revenue by location or sub-account. Custom software development for back-end processes unique to your organization...

BusyPaws Pricing

All plans include live customer support, unlimited access, data storage, and record keeping.

Starting price: 

$79.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

BusyPaws Client Profile

BusyPaws Reviews

Overall Rating

4.64

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4

Customer Support

5

Value for money

4

Functionality

4

Most Helpful Reviews for BusyPaws

1 - 5 of 14 Reviews

Emily

Retail, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2021

The BEST booking software

I love everything about this software. It looks great. My clients have the option of booking appointments themselves. Canceling the appointments via the client portal. Intake forms are generated and available for them to sign prior to their appointments. If I ever have an issue or made a mistake the Team at BusyPaws are available to me. I actually can talk to them and they’ve always been able to resolve my problems. They answer questions in a timely manner and take suggestions regarding improvements that can be made. I have recommended this software to other dog grooming professionals in the industry. It’s so much better then other platforms.

PROS

This software is extremely useful, easy to use and full of features.

CONS

The only con I had and will be implemented soon is the option for clients to add a tip at checkout.

Reason for choosing BusyPaws

The price was a major factor but more importantly the features. The reliability of the system, functionality and the ability to contact an actual person for help was my determining factor. It does everything I need and it keeps getting better with all the recently added features.

Reasons for switching to BusyPaws

I made the switch because in my first month of opening I realized my clients were not able to book available appointments online. It would show zero available appointments. I lost revenue and potential clients. Moego did apologize for taking several days to try and mediate the situation. Offered me a free month. However I just felt that I couldn’t risk that happening again.

Alycia

Professional Training & Coaching, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed October 2022

Easy to use pet professional software

Very positive. The customer service is excellent and the company is frequently adding new features to increase the customer experience

PROS

I can add clients and services easily as well as organize invoicing and scheduling calender all in the same place. My clients also say they love how easy it is to use to sign up for services and upload documents.

CONS

The one things that I like the least about the software is the inability to change overall tax rates and add product inventory that has a different tax percentage than a service. I have to use seperate accounting software to do this.

Reason for choosing BusyPaws

It was the best fit for my needs.

Reasons for switching to BusyPaws

I wanted a product that was Canadian and small business based as well asa product that was unique to my industry.

Jennifer

E-Learning, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

1

Reviewed February 2023

BEWARE: LMS (online course creator) is incredibly misrepresented.

My overall experience with the CMS was good. The software has a lot of functions that save time and help me stay organized.However, the misrepresentation of the LMS is so disappointing that I would not recommend Busy Paws.

PROS

I like being able to create templates and automatic messages based on an event. They offer document management, so I can send multiple docs with one click.

CONS

Busy Paws advertises that the Learning Management System is comparable to "Kajabi or Teachable, built for dog trainers." This is misleading and FALSE. The LMS is nothing like Kajabi or Teachable.If you plan to use the LMS, look elsewhere. Pricing for Busy Paw's CMS and LMS is equal to or greater than Acuity tiers with any LMS (Teachable, Kajabi, Ruzuku, LearnWorlds, etc.), but they do not offer the same feature list. Instead, they offer a bare-bones WYSIWYG without the ability to add templates or columns, in-line images, or any formatting aside from text. No embedding or ability to open links in a new window.No ability to resize images. Images size to fit, so they are huge and grainy. No assessment features, quizzes, or surveys.There is no way to track courses. 'Courses Completed' is not accurate. I have to log in to the client to see the progress.No landing page or ability to preview courses. I must build a page from the ground up to showcase my courses. Then maintain it.The client must go through the onboarding process to sign up for a course. While the Client Management System features are great, the Learning Management System is seriously lacking and should not even be called an LMS.

Reasons for switching to BusyPaws

I wanted to integrate my courses into one place. This seemed to be comparable to Acuity and Teachable monthly. I didn't know how poor the LMS stacked up until I was in course creation. I trusted Busy Paws when they said they had a comparable product, and they let me down. Foolishly, I paid in advance for two months free, and now I can not get a refund for months unused.

Selena

Professional Training & Coaching, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2023

Lots of features for a lower price

It's pretty good! It's not as expensive and because of that I think it's great. They're constantly improving the product and I hope it becomes even better.

PROS

I love that I can have so many services and that I can search clients by their pet's names. It's easier for me to remember their dog! It's also way more affordable compared to competitors.

CONS

Some things are tedious like changing a blocked section in the calendar and I'm hoping their courses creation will become more robust. It's lacking in the ability to add in photos.

Reasons for switching to BusyPaws

I wanted a one stop shop

Patrice

Veterinary, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed November 2021

Amazing customer service with a solid product

Their customer service is top notch and it seems like they are continuing to develop their product. I save a lot of time and can have all my business needs met in 1 place vs. paying for and sending clients to different softwares.

PROS

This product is pretty intuitive and they have helpful article detailing the set up process. Their payment process for clients is the easiest I have used yet. I love that they allow actual signatures so you can set up contracts too.

CONS

There are some features that don't work ideally for my company, such as not being able to set different time frames in availability. I can only set one chunk of hours per day.

Reason for choosing BusyPaws

It seemed to have the best features and client experience of all the products I considered. I heard good things about their customer service and that has proven very true.

Reasons for switching to BusyPaws

DogBizPro was a bit pricey for not having enough usable features for my business. Signing up for classes also seemed challenging for my clients, I often got emailed questions and had to register clients myself. They also didn't seem big into integrations like other softwares are (ex. Mailchimp). DogBizPro is also not the most intuitive to use.