This calculator vs. MoeGo
Two different shapes: MoeGo is account-based business management software for running a grooming business's whole scheduling-to-payment workflow. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this one groom cost, given its size, coat, matting, and add-ons, before you quote it.
What each tool is for
MoeGo is cloud-based business management software built for pet grooming professionals. Its feature set covers 24/7 online booking, appointment scheduling and smart-schedule automation, digital intake forms with e-signatures, a two-way client messaging hub, automated reminders, integrated payment processing, memberships and packages, a client portal, and reporting, with route optimization and map-based scheduling built for mobile groomers specifically. It was founded in late 2019 by Ethan Dong and is headquartered in Culver City, California; it closed a $24 million Series A funding round led by Base10 Partners, with Mars Petcare's Digitalis Ventures also participating, and by 2025 reported serving thousands of pet care businesses across more than 69 million appointments. It is sold as an ongoing monthly subscription, priced per van for mobile groomers or per location for a shop, across tiered plans (reported publicly as roughly $49–$159 per month per van, or $79–$239 per month per location, depending on tier and add-ons such as SMS volume) — this page states no dollar figure as current pricing on MoeGo's own behalf, since plan prices change; see MoeGo's own pricing page for today's numbers.
This calculator does none of what MoeGo does. It does not run a booking calendar, hold a client or appointment record on a server, or process payments. It takes one groom — a dog or cat's size and coat type, matting severity, a checklist of add-ons (nail trim, nail grinding, teeth brushing, ear cleaning, de-shedding, flea/tick treatment, anal gland expression), optional mobile travel time and mileage, hourly wage and payroll burden, supplies, job overhead, payment processing fee, and target margin — and turns that into the contribution left after costs, the break-even quote, the price that hits your target margin, the effective hourly rate, plus a printable customer proposal with scope, deposit split, and a signature line. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. It also does not decide whether an animal is fit or safe to groom — see the calculator's own FAQ on that.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I run a grooming business and need online booking, scheduling, client messaging, and payments handled across every groomer and every appointment. | MoeGo, or a comparable grooming-industry platform — running the whole booking-to-payment workflow is not something this calculator does. |
| Does the price for this one groom actually clear my cost and target margin, once size, coat, matting, and add-ons are counted correctly? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| How much extra should a matted, giant, or curly-coated dog actually cost, once the real time it takes is counted against the job? | This calculator's own groom-time and matting-surcharge figures. |
| I need route optimization and map-based scheduling for a mobile grooming van's whole day. | MoeGo — built as an ongoing, account-based platform for exactly that job. |
| How does the math behind a dog grooming price actually work? | This calculator's own pricing walkthrough. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. MoeGo is used through a monthly subscription account, priced per van or per location. |
Most groomers get different value from each: MoeGo (or a comparable platform) for running the business's whole booking, client-communication, and payment workflow as an ongoing account, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login check on whether one job's price actually clears cost and margin before it's quoted — and neither tool makes the welfare or safety call about whether a specific animal should be groomed at all; that stays with the groomer and, where warranted, a veterinarian.
This tool needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
Common questions
Should I use this calculator or MoeGo?
They do different jobs. MoeGo is cloud-based business management software built for pet grooming professionals — online booking, scheduling, digital intake forms, two-way client messaging, route optimization for mobile groomers, and integrated payment processing — sold as an ongoing monthly subscription per van or per location. This calculator does none of that. It takes one groom — size, coat, matting severity, add-ons, optional mobile travel, loaded wage, supplies, overhead, and payment fees — and turns that into the contribution after costs, the break-even quote, the price needed to hit a target margin, plus a printable customer proposal, instantly, in the browser, with no account and nothing uploaded. A grooming business running scheduling, client communication, and payments across every groomer and every appointment is better served by MoeGo or a comparable platform; a groomer who wants an instant, private, correctly-sized price for one job before it's quoted is in the right place here.
Is this page affiliated with MoeGo?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by MoeGo. MoeGo is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
Open the Pet Grooming Bid Calculator to price your own job.