What dog groomers need from their software, from sources outside Gingr and outside Nexa:
Gingr covers the client-facing side of grooming well. Its PreCheck verifies vaccinations and waivers before drop-off, and its pet parent app lets clients book, pay, update pet records and message staff. Live support by chat, phone and email, plus onboarding specialists, helps a shop that wants someone to call. Its listed features don't include bookkeeping for the trade's tax needs, such as separating tips and processor fees, quarterly estimated tax, or license renewal tracking. Those would live in a separate tool. Text messaging, Employee Scheduling and picture messaging are paid add-ons, and the page doesn't list their prices.
Nexa covers the money and business-admin side. It has invoices and estimates, a client pay portal on your own Stripe account, expenses with receipt scanning, profit and loss, a public booking page with reschedule and cancel links, recurring jobs, and before-and-after phone photos kept on each job. It also works offline. It does not have text messaging or calls, a point-of-sale or card reader, QuickBooks or Xero sync, or Google Calendar sync. Its photos stay inside the job record, so no photo report goes to the customer. Its automated emails, including reminders, send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. It is software you own and run yourself, with no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding.
Over three years, Gingr at $169/month is $2,028 a year, or $6,084. Nexa is $279 once, or $458.64 with optional Cloud Sync at $4.99/month. If you rely on Gingr's vaccination checks before drop-off, its client app, or live support, stay with Gingr, because Nexa has no text messaging and no vendor support. A solo groomer who mainly needs invoicing, bookkeeping and a booking page could run Nexa instead. They would need to be comfortable keeping Nexa open for its automated emails to send and handling vaccine checks themselves.
Our read for dog groomers: Stay with Gingr if you depend on its vaccination checks, client app and live support; Nexa only suits a solo groomer who mainly needs bookkeeping and invoicing.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Gingr costs dog groomers $2,028/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 1.7 months it has cost less than Gingr, and you own it after that. What it is not: hosted-for-you software with a support desk and a roadmap you can lobby. That is the trade, and the rest of this page is the detail behind it.
Nexa is $279 once, about $23 a month over its first year. Its Drain Guard reads your expenses (from a linked bank, an imported statement, or ones you type in), finds the charges that repeat, and adds them up by the month. Keep or Cut then walks you through them one at a time. Cancel $23 a month of charges you'd forgotten about and Nexa has paid for itself inside the first year, before you count the Gingr bill you'd stop paying.
It depends on what you find and what you cancel, so we don't promise a number. In our demo data, Drain Guard finds 5 subscriptions adding up to $110.13 a month. That is sample data, not a customer's.
The verdict for dog groomers: Stay with Gingr if the needs in our read above apply to you. If they don't, Nexa covers the core invoicing, scheduling and books for $279 once against $6,084 for Gingr over three years.
Scheduling, client records and invoicing are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot and carry their own booking link, with no per-appointment cut. The sections below price both routes honestly.
None of that is a software problem you can buy your way out of in one click — it is why the tool you pick matters more than what it costs. Gingr solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $169/month — $2,028 a year, from Gingr's own pricing page. Every figure below is that price, multiplied. Nothing is projected.
Nexa: $279 once (or 3 × $99). Over the same three years, that is $5,805 less.
If Gingr raises its price, the three-year cost goes up; if it cuts it, the cost comes down. We don't guess which. Add-ons, extra seats and card-processing fees are not included, on either side.
| Feature | Gingr | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✓ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | — | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | — | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | — | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Price | $169/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $6,084 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for Gingr come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as Gingr lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from Gingr's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
Gingr is the better call if you need their platform specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
Pet-care businesses: boarding kennels, dog daycare, grooming salons, dog training facilities, dog parks and dog bars, and multi-location operators. (gingrapp.com)
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Software doesn't do your clients — it automates the business around it. And that part is the same for every dog groomer: find the work, manage it, bill for it, get paid. Each step has a tool — and the right single tool runs the whole loop, so the handoffs are automatic and you get back to your clients. Tap a step to see what gets automated.
A new client finds you and books a time — no phone tag, no double-booking.
The session itself — with the client history, notes, packages, and add-ons right there instead of in three different places.
The work becomes the invoice — the hours, the add-ons, the materials, the deposit credited — totaled and sent, instead of re-typed at 9pm.
Paid by card or link, the deposit credited, and what's overdue chased — without you doing it by hand.
You can stitch four separate subscriptions across these four steps, or run one tool that does the whole flow so a booking becomes a job becomes an invoice becomes a payment without re-typing. Either way the goal is the same: less time on the business of the business, more on your clients. (Nexa is built to be the one — but the honest options for each step are above and below.)
This is the connection that makes the rest worth it. A dog groomer's job already holds the services, the hours, the add-ons, and the materials — so the invoice builds itself from the work instead of you re-typing it at 9pm. Toggle an add-on or nudge the hours and watch it recompute.
You didn't write this invoice — the job did.
Gingr plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median dog groomer earns $35,000/year. At $2,028/year, Gingr is a recurring slice of that — paid again every year, whether the year was good or not. Owning the same jobs outright is $279 once, and the slice stops.
Nexa is $279 once. Invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, accounting — all connected, built for dog groomers. You own it like you own your Clippers and blade sets (Andis, Wahl).
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small dog groomers business that owns its tools and is sick of renting software, Nexa replaces your whole stack for $279 once. If you're scaling into a large team with dedicated admin staff, a bigger platform may fit better — and we'd rather tell you that now than sell you the wrong thing.
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Open on Reddit →Scheduling, client records and invoicing are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot and carry their own booking link, with no per-appointment cut. The sections below price both routes honestly.
I groom six to eight dogs a day, from a quick bath for a Lab to a three-hour full groom on a matted Doodle. Every dog starts with a check-in: coat condition, skin issues, lumps, sore spots, and what the owner wants, which sometimes isn't possible because the coat is too matted and the kind choice is a short shave. Then bath and blow-dry, which is most of the time on a thick coat, followed by the cut: clipper work on the body, scissoring the legs and face, sanitary trim, nails and ears. Every dog behaves differently on the table; some are nervous, some bite, some have never been groomed, and safety for both of us comes first. I clean and disinfect the tub, table and tools between dogs and keep my blades sharp. Scheduling is tight because owners want drop-off and pickup at the same times. Matted dogs and difficult handling cost me extra time, so I charge for them and explain why. Regulars on a six-week cycle are the backbone of my book.
Real dog groomers near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a dog groomer? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every dog groomer on Nexa →
The tools of the trade — each a one-time buy that earns its keep for years.
You paid for these once because good tools last. That's the bar your software should clear too — priced like a tool you own, $279 once, not a subscription that costs more than your kit every year.
We build a dog groomer's guide the same way every time, and we'd rather you trust it than take it on faith. Nexa is our product, so the test we hold ourselves to is simple: a tool only "wins" a job here when it genuinely does that job better for a dog groomer — and where something free, open-source, or buy-once does it better, we say so and link you to it. Where Nexa falls short (payroll is the honest example), we name the alternative outright.
Found something out of date? Prices change and we don't catch every move the day it happens. This guide is published and maintained by the Nexa team; if a figure here is wrong, tell us and we'll fix it — getting it right matters more to us than the sale.
For solo dog groomers and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. Gingr may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
Gingr has a mature ecosystem. For most solo dog groomers, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $169/month, Nexa pays for itself in 1.7 months. After that: $2,028 saved every year.
Yes. Nexa is $279 as a one-time payment, or 3 payments of $99 ($297 total). Either way it's a one-time purchase — no subscription, no recurring fees ever.
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