Pet Manager Free Trial: What to Expect in Your First 30 Days

So, you’re on the brink of a big decision. You’ve seen what Pet Manager can do, and you’re this close to transforming how you run your pet care business. The final hurdle? Taking that leap of faith. But what if it wasn’t a leap of faith at all? What if you could take a full, no-strings-attached, 30-day joyride to experience the power of Pet Manager for yourself?

That’s exactly what our free 30-day trial offers. It’s your all-access pass to see, touch, and feel how our software can streamline your operations, delight your customers, and give you back your most valuable asset: time. Let’s pull back the curtain and show you exactly what to expect when you sign up and start your journey.

Week 1: Setup and Getting Your Bearings

The moment you sign up, you’ll find that getting started with Pet Manager is refreshingly straightforward. We’ve designed the onboarding process to be intuitive, but we don’t just leave you to it.

• Guided Setup: The first thing you’ll encounter is our setup wizard. It will walk you through the essentials: setting up your business details, configuring your services (boarding, daycare, grooming, you name it!), and establishing your pricing. Our powerful price calculator lets you set costs based on a huge range of rules you already use—like animal size, breed, seasons, and length of stay.
• Importing Your Data: Worried about the headache of moving your existing data? Don’t be. We make it easy to import your customer and pet records. You can get your core information into the system quickly, so you’re not starting from scratch. No one likes double-entry, and we’ve worked hard to eliminate it. Did you know that businesses can lose up to 20% of their revenue due to inefficient processes? Getting your data in right from the start is a massive first step to reclaiming that.
• Exploring the Dashboard: Your first week is the perfect time to familiarize yourself with the main dashboard. It’s your new command centre. You’ll see interactive tiles for daily check-ins, check-outs, and new online bookings. You can even customize these tiles to show what’s most important to you, from medical alerts to pets needing a taxi pickup.

A little something to make you smile: Remember the first time you tried to assemble flat-pack furniture with just a tiny Allen key and a diagram that looked like ancient hieroglyphics? Our setup process is the exact opposite of that. We promise.

Week 2: Mastering the Core Features

With your basic setup complete, it’s time to dive into the day-to-day magic. This is where you’ll start to see the real-time savings.

• Effortless Booking Management: Start playing with the schedulers. Drag and drop a booking to a new pen. Click on a date to create a new appointment. You’ll notice how visual and intuitive it is. The colour-coded statuses for bookings (e.g., checked-in, confirmed, pending) give you an at-a-glance overview of your facility’s status.
• Customer and Pet Profiles: Add a new test client and their pet. You’ll see just how comprehensive our profiles are. For customers, you can store everything from their contact info to their vet’s details and even digitally signed terms and conditions. For pets, you can record vaccination details, behaviour notes, dietary needs, and upload photos. This rich data helps you provide truly personalised care.
• Automated Communications: Set up a few email and SMS templates. Create a ‘Welcome Email’ set to go out 7 days prior to a booking or a ‘Check-out Reminder’ SMS. This is a set-and-forget feature that your clients will love, and it saves your staff from hours on the phone. A study by Small Business Trends found that 48% of consumers prefer to communicate with businesses via text message. Pet Manager puts that power in your hands.

Week 3: Engaging Your Customers & Staff

Now let’s look at the features that elevate the experience for everyone involved.

• The Customer Portal: This is a game-changer. We’ll help you embed the customer portal directly into your website. Your clients can then register, book services, update their pet’s details, upload vaccination records, and even make payments online via our Stripe integration. It empowers your customers and drastically reduces your admin workload.
• Staff Collaboration: Add your team members as users. You can create different user roles, restricting access to sensitive information like financial reports if needed. Staff can use the daily notes on the dashboard to share important information and stay on the same page. They can even check pets in and out directly from a tablet.
• Pet Postcards: Fancy sending a little update to a pet parent? The Pet Postcards feature lets you send an email with photos and a quick note about how their furry family member is doing. It’s a small touch that creates a huge amount of goodwill and fantastic online reviews.

Week 4: Reporting, Integrations and Fine-Tuning

In your final week, it’s time to explore the powerful back-end features that drive business growth.

• Powerful Reporting: Dive into the reporting suite. Want to know your occupancy rates for the next month? Need a list of all pets with expiring vaccinations? How about a detailed financial report showing revenue for a specific period? Pet Manager has a report for almost everything, giving you the data-driven insights needed to make smart business decisions.
• Xero Integration: If you use Xero, connect it to Pet Manager. Watch as customers, invoices, and payments are automatically synchronised, saving your bookkeeper hours of work and reducing human error.
• Fine-Tuning Settings: By now, you’ll have a good feel for the system. Head into the settings area, where you can customize a vast number of options to make Pet Manager work exactly the way your business does. From tweaking invoice display settings to customising the wording in the customer portal, the control is yours.

Ready to Experience It for Yourself?

The thought of switching software can be daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. Our 30-day free trial is designed to give you a complete, hands-on experience so you can be 100% confident in your decision. You get full access to the platform, backed by our friendly support team.

Stop dreaming about a more efficient, profitable, and less stressful way to run your pet care business. The tools you need are right here, waiting for you.

Your journey to a better business starts with a single click. Sign up for your free 30-day trial of Pet Manager today!
https://petmanager.app/accounts/signup