Bookkeeping and financials for a pet grooming business
Grooming looks profitable at the counter and is often thinner than it feels. Product, water, dryer electricity, blade sharpening, insurance, card fees, and the commission split if you have staff. An $85 groom can end the month worth less than half of it, and most owners have never seen that figure written down.
The number that matters here is revenue per hour on the table, not revenue per groom. A large doodle at $130 that takes three hours pays worse than two maintained small coats at $65. Once you can see it by breed and by groomer, your price list and your booking rules change on their own without anyone arguing about it.
Mobile changes the arithmetic again. Fuel, the van payment, generator maintenance and the dead driving between stops all sit against the ticket, and route density becomes the whole game.
Two weeks in, working means categorized books through last month, a profit and loss you can read in one sitting, and a per hour figure for every service you sell.