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Argus
What it is
Argus is salon-management software for pet grooming businesses, combining booking, scheduling, customer and pet records, staff management, checkout, and reporting. Its calendar offers a day view for each groomer, drag-to-reschedule appointments, staff shifts, and repeating rotas. A branded booking page calculates available times from salon hours, groomer shifts, existing appointments, and staff qualifications. Pet records can store breed, size, birthday, microchip number, photos, notes, and grooming history. Checkout covers services and consumables, discounts, tips, tax, and automatically calculated staff commissions. Optional texts include grooming-due reminders, confirmations and changes, day-before reminders, and review requests. One account can manage multiple branches, each with its own calendar, staff, services, hours, and booking page, with reporting across locations. The browser service requires no download, and staff and customer interfaces support nine listed languages. Argus also offers a salon-branded iOS and Android app, though push notifications are not available yet. Usage-based pricing is $10 a month per active team member; SMS costs 0.01–$0.15 per message segment.
For and against
For
- Booking considers hours, shifts, appointments, and qualifications
- Detailed pet records
- Automatic staff commission calculations
- Supports multiple branches
- Nine listed interface languages
Against
- No free plan
- Push notifications are not available yet
- SMS is charged separately
- Usage plan costs $10 monthly per team member
The verdict
Argus brings core grooming-salon operations into one browser-based service with optional branded apps. Check team-member and SMS charges when estimating ongoing costs.
Who it suits
Argus suits pet-grooming salons needing booking, staff scheduling, pet records, checkout, reminders, and multi-location reporting. It fits teams working through a browser or salon-branded mobile app.
Plans and prices
SMS messages
Per message segment · 160 characters, or 70 for non-Latin messages
Read 4 Oct 2026 · argus.pet
Usage-based
Active team members · SMS segments sent · no per-location charge · all features included
Read 4 Oct 2026 · argus.pet
On the record
- Account security
- The terms say accounts authenticate using a one-time code sent to email or phone, described as passwordless login.argus.pet · read 4 Oct 2026
- Checkout and commissions
- Argus supports in-salon checkout for services and consumables, with discounts, tips, tax, and automatically calculated staff commissions.argus.pet · read 4 Oct 2026
- Customer and pet records
- Records can include a pet’s breed, size, birthday, microchip number, photo, notes, and grooming history.argus.pet · read 4 Oct 2026
- Data separation
- The terms describe Argus as a multi-tenant service that keeps each organization’s data separate from other organizations’ data.argus.pet · read 4 Oct 2026
- 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.argus.pet · read 4 Oct 2026
- 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.argus.pet · read 4 Oct 2026
- Multi-location
- One account can cover multiple branches, each with its own calendar, staff, services, hours, and booking page, with reporting across locations.argus.pet · read 4 Oct 2026
- Online booking
- Customers book through a branded page that offers times based on salon hours, groomer shifts, existing appointments, and staff qualifications.argus.pet · read 4 Oct 2026
- Platform access
- The service runs in a browser and the homepage says there is nothing to download to use it.argus.pet · read 4 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Argus is salon-management software for pet grooming businesses, combining online booking, scheduling, customer and pet records, staff management, checkout, and reporting.argus.pet · read 4 Oct 2026
- Reminders
- Optional texts include grooming-due reminders, appointment confirmations and changes, day-before reminders, and review requests.argus.pet · read 4 Oct 2026
- Scheduling
- The calendar provides a day view per groomer, drag-to-reschedule, staff shifts, and repeating rotas.argus.pet · read 4 Oct 2026
- SMS setup
- Messages are opt-in and sent through the salon’s own SMS account; Argus logs message recipients, delivery status, and message body.argus.pet · read 4 Oct 2026
- 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.argus.pet · read 4 Oct 2026
