Argus
argus.pet
What it is
Argus is salon-management software for pet grooming businesses. It combines online booking, scheduling, customer and pet records, staff management, checkout, and reporting in a browser-based service. Calendars show each groomer’s day, support drag-to-reschedule, staff shifts, and repeating rotas. A branded booking page offers times based on salon hours, shifts, existing appointments, and staff qualifications. Records can hold breed, size, birthday, microchip number, photos, notes, and grooming history. Checkout handles services, consumables, discounts, tips, tax, and staff commissions. Optional texts cover confirmations, changes, grooming-due reminders, day-before reminders, and review requests. One account can manage multiple branches with separate calendars and booking pages, plus cross-location reporting. The dashboard and booking portal support nine languages. Usage-based pricing is $10 a month per active team member; SMS costs $0.01 segment, with rates up to 0.15 USD by recipient country.
Spec sheet
- Purpose
- Argus is salon-management software for pet grooming businesses, combining online booking, scheduling, customer and pet records, staff management, checkout, and reporting.Read 4 Oct 2026 · argus.pet
- Account security
- The terms say accounts authenticate using a one-time code sent to email or phone, described as passwordless login.Read 4 Oct 2026 · argus.pet
- Checkout and commissions
- Argus supports in-salon checkout for services and consumables, with discounts, tips, tax, and automatically calculated staff commissions.Read 4 Oct 2026 · argus.pet
- Customer and pet records
- Records can include a pet’s breed, size, birthday, microchip number, photo, notes, and grooming history.Read 4 Oct 2026 · argus.pet
- Data separation
- The terms describe Argus as a multi-tenant service that keeps each organization’s data separate from other organizations’ data.Read 4 Oct 2026 · argus.pet
- Languages
- The homepage says the staff dashboard and customer booking portal support nine languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål, Ukrainian, and Georgian.Read 4 Oct 2026 · argus.pet
- Mobile app
- Argus offers a salon-branded native app for iOS and Android, published under the salon’s name; push notifications are not available yet.Read 4 Oct 2026 · argus.pet
- Multi-location
- One account can cover multiple branches, each with its own calendar, staff, services, hours, and booking page, with reporting across locations.Read 4 Oct 2026 · argus.pet
- Online booking
- Customers book through a branded page that offers times based on salon hours, groomer shifts, existing appointments, and staff qualifications.Read 4 Oct 2026 · argus.pet
- Platform access
- The service runs in a browser and the homepage says there is nothing to download to use it.Read 4 Oct 2026 · argus.pet
- Reminders
- Optional texts include grooming-due reminders, appointment confirmations and changes, day-before reminders, and review requests.Read 4 Oct 2026 · argus.pet
- Scheduling
- The calendar provides a day view per groomer, drag-to-reschedule, staff shifts, and repeating rotas.Read 4 Oct 2026 · argus.pet
- SMS setup
- Messages are opt-in and sent through the salon’s own SMS account; Argus logs message recipients, delivery status, and message body.Read 4 Oct 2026 · argus.pet
- Support and development
- Argus says it ships improvements on most working days and invites salons to request features, with an answer about whether and when they can be added.Read 4 Oct 2026 · argus.pet
Plans and prices
Strong points and limits
Strong points
- Branded booking page uses salon availability rules
- Detailed pet records include grooming history
- Checkout calculates staff commissions automatically
- Multiple branches share cross-location reporting
- Browser access requires nothing to download
Limits
- No free plan
- SMS charged separately per message segment
- Push notifications are not available yet
- Usage plan costs 10.00 USD monthly per team member
Who it suits
Argus is for pet grooming salons needing booking, staff scheduling, pet records, checkout, reminders, and reporting. Multi-location operators can manage branches under one account.
Verdict
Argus covers operational tasks from booking through checkout and reminders, with support for multiple branches and languages. Its paid model separates team-member fees from SMS charges, and the native app currently lacks push notifications.
Where Specifiction places it
- Grooming App#7 of 228.0
- Pet Grooming Scheduling Software#14 of 308.0