CLIPPERS BASE · EST. SYDNEY

WAITLIST OPEN

Clippers Base
For Australian mobile groomers

By 7pm the only thing left is a clean trailer.

Clippers Base quietly runs the other half of your van — confirmations, the day’s order, invoices, card payments and the chase-ups. You do the dogs.

Founders 100 · price locked for 2 years

Replaces

  • Google Calendar
  • Chat threads
  • A spreadsheet
  • The invoice app

Fig. 01 — Today Screen · live job

Mon, 17 Aug

Afternoon, Ayush

16° · drizzle

UV 3

Today brief

Two first-timers today — Frankie’s jumpy at home and reactive to barking, Otis needs confidence-building on the table.

1 of 5 done

Up next · in 12m

Unconfirmed

Frankie

Border Collie · 50 min

3:45 PM

Ava40 Hawkesbury Road, Westmead

Heads up · Frankie snapped when the clippers reached his ears last visit — start at the shoulders and leave the head until last.

Ava has asked to try again without a muzzle. A reassuring tone worked better than restraint.

CheckoutMessageStart

Tight to next — about 3 min behind.

Should still make it — no stress.

  • 01

    The day, read for you by 6:45 — who hasn't confirmed, who owes you, what each dog needs.

  • 02

    The one thing to know about this dog — pulled from the last visit, before you knock on the door.

  • 03

    It tells you when you're running behind — three minutes late is a nudge, not a phone call.

Everything here works with no signal.
  • iOS · Android · Web
  • Works with no signal
  • GST & BAS built in
  • Tap to Pay on iPhone
  • SMS from your own number
  • AI never trains on your data
Fig. 00 — the problem

Every mobile groomer runs two businesses. Only one of them pays.

The dogs are the easy part. It’s the second shift behind them — the texts, the maybes, the who-paid-what — that eats your evenings.

Tonight · 9:14 pm · the kitchen table

  • Bec — 4pm?? still hasn't written back
  • $110 cash — did Jen ever pay??
  • Milo matted again — allow +20 min next time
  • BAS due 28th
  • text EVERYONE re: Tuesday change
  • who cancelled Thurs? and did I refund it
  • Sat's takings — $340? $390? check the tin

None of this is grooming. All of it is unpaid.

Tomorrow · 6:45 am · Clippers Base

  • Confirmations chase themselves

    Twelve SMS triggers go out from your own mobile, so replies land on your phone — not in someone's inbox.

  • The day turns up in order

    Route, drive times and a leave-by line, measured from where you actually are.

  • Every dog's history, before you knock

    One key note per pet, plus whatever you said into the mic last visit.

  • Money closes in the driveway

    Tap to Pay on iPhone, cash or PayID. The numbered invoice and the GST write themselves. Android tap-to-pay is coming.

  • Nothing is left to chase

    An end-of-day sweep asks who happened and who paid, then records it properly.

  • BAS is a screen, not a weekend

    G1 and 1A, cash or accrual, ready the day the quarter closes.

The headache — you find out at 10am that nobody confirmed, and that Biscuit bites.

By 6:45 you already know how today will go.

Open the app with your coffee and the day has already been read for you: what's shaky, what each dog needs, and the drive most likely to make you late.

  • What's shaky

    Who hasn't confirmed, who cancels a lot, and who's booked in today but still owes you money.

  • Per-dog watchouts

    Re-read from the last twenty visits — your notes, your observations, your voice notes.

  • The tightest drive

    The gap most likely to run you late, flagged before you turn the key.

Fig. 02 — Today brief, expanded · 06:45 AEST

Briefing · Ayush

Sun, 23 Aug

Two first-timers today, and a 104-minute drive between Milo and Penny that decides whether you finish on time.

Worth a look

  • Winston's 4pm is still unconfirmed — Noah no-showed the last two Sundays.
  • 18° and overcast, rain from 2pm — Penny and Winston are both outdoor setups.
  • Ava owes $240 from 9 Aug and is back in at 1:15pm.
  • No buffer into Penny at 3:15pm — 104 min from Warragamba, straight after Milo.
  • 5 invoices unpaid — $635 to chase.

The dogs

  • Winston is a first-timer. His intake form flags street noise and strangers at the gate.
  • Your voice note, 9 Aug: “Bella’s matting is worse on the back legs — six weeks next time, not eight.” Bella is in at 11:30.
Numbers computed on device, prose written by the model.

The headache — the route was planned at breakfast and is already wrong.

The 7am text lands and the day rebuilds itself.

Drag the booking to a new hour and everything after it follows — the confirm text, the invoice, next fortnight's repeat. Nothing to rub out and rewrite at the lights.

  • Drag it, don't rebook it

    Move one occurrence or the whole run. The client gets a fresh tap-to-confirm link.

  • Colour is the status

    Completed, rescheduled, confirmed. One look tells you where the day is up to.

  • Weather on every hour

    Sits against your route, not the city centre, so you know which dogs get done inside.

  • Holidays that know your state

    Repeat bookings skip the public holiday if you ask them to.

Fig. 02.1 — Schedule · Sun 23 Aug, day grid

Schedule

August 2026

M17T18W19T20F21S22S23
12hr24hr18°Cloudy

1 PM

19°

2 PM

19°

3 PM

20°

4 PM

19°

5 PM

18°

6 PM

16°

7 PM

15°

Ava Edwards (Frankie - Border Collie)

De-shed Treatment

1:15 pm

Completed

Jack Lawson (Penny - Dachshund)

Full Groom

3:15 pm

Noah Hall (Winston - Mini Schnauzer)

Express Groom

4:00 pm

Rescheduled

Grace Wilson (Lola - Cavalier King Charles Spaniel)

Bath & Brush

Zoe Bennett (Hugo - Cavoodle)

Puppy First Groom

Today
TodayScheduleClientsWaitlist
The 1:15 is done, the 4:00 has moved and is still unconfirmed — the colour says which before you read a name.

The headache — three driveways later, you can't remember who actually paid.

Tap the card in the driveway. The GST sorts itself out.

Checkout is three taps on the phone in your hand. Cash and PayID count the same, and at knock-off you sweep the whole day in one go.

  • Your Stripe, your money

    Payouts land in your own account. We add nothing to the price and take nothing out of it.

  • GST pulled out of the price

    $110 in the driveway is $10 GST, worked backwards from the tax-inclusive price you charge.

  • Cash and PayID count too

    One sheet at the end of the day: tap Cash, Card or PayID per client and the takings are done.

  • A real tax invoice, numbered

    Your ABN, your logo, your numbering. Sent before you're back in the driver's seat.

Fig. 03 — Payment sweep · knock-off, 3 to record

Record payments

Did they pay you?

Recorded payments land in Received, your reports and this quarter’s BAS. Skip any you’ll invoice instead.

Priya Nair · 11:30 am

$130

CashCardPayID

Ava Edwards · 1:15 pm

$110

CashCardPayID

Noah Hall · 4:00 pm

$85

CashCardPayID
All paid cash (3)Invoicing later
Cash, card or PayID per client, or the whole day in one tap.

The headache — every reminder typed out by thumb, and still a no-show on Friday.

The texts go out from your mobile. The replies come back to it.

Twelve triggers, each one a template you can edit or switch off. When a client texts back “gate's unlocked”, it lands on your phone like any other message.

  • Your own verified mobile

    The client sees your number, not a shortcode. Replies land in your normal thread.

  • Twelve triggers

    Confirmation, reminder, on the way, running late, cancelled, waitlist offer, and the rest.

  • Tap-to-confirm links

    One tap from the client and the booking turns confirmed on your grid.

  • Off for the ones who hate it

    Per-client overrides. Switch any trigger off for a client who'd rather you just turned up.

Fig. 04 — SMS thread

9:48
Anna Lee · 0412 345 678

Hi Anna, it’s Sam from Sam’s Mobile Grooming. You’re booked in for Biscuit on Tue 18 Aug at 10:00am. Tap to confirm: cb.au/x7f2

Sent Mon 4:02 pm · confirmation

Confirmed ✅ thanks Sam!

Anna · 4:04 pm

On my way, see you in 15.

Sent Tue 9:48 am · on the way

One booking, three texts. Replies land in your normal thread.

Fig. 04.1 — Triggers

9:48
Text triggers
Confirmation
Reminder
On the way
Running late
Cancelled
Waitlist offer

Six of twelve. Each is a template you can rewrite — merge tags fill in the pet, the day and the time.

Switch any trigger off, for everyone or for one client.
Specifications — the quiet stuff

The parts you’ll never think about, because they just work.

Built for one van in a dead zone, not a call centre with fibre.

  • Offline-first

    Your whole day lives on the phone. Reads are instant, writes queue quietly and sync the moment you find a tower.

  • Voice notes

    Hold the mic, say what you noticed, drive away. It transcribes when the signal comes back and turns into a client note.

  • Google Calendar

    Personal events show up on your schedule. Bookings mirror into Google, in their own calendar.

  • Teams of two or three

    Owner runs billing and settings, your assistant works the day. They join with a code, and every change is attributed.

  • Web portal

    Same account, bigger screen. Sortable tables, charts, BAS and every report that never fitted on a phone.

  • Notifications worth having

    A client confirmed. A cancellation. A payment landed. That's it — nothing that interrupts hands that are on a dog.

  • Australian by default

    State public holidays, business hours, GST on tax-inclusive prices, BAS quarters, AU mobile formats. Nothing to convert.

  • Privacy, plainly

    Your data is never used to train a model. Audio is deleted after 30 days. Every number the AI shows you was calculated first.

iOS 16+ · Android 10+ · any modern browser
Data hosted in Sydney · one account, three devices · no lock-in, export any time

A day with Clippers Base

Seven driveways. Zero paperwork.

That’s the whole product, working as one day. Most groomers spend more time chasing flaky clients and paperwork than grooming — here’s the same Tuesday with the admin doing itself.

Every step below works with no signal

  1. 01 / 6:45am

    The brief

    The app greets you by name with the weather and today's count. Underneath: who hasn't confirmed, the tightest drive, who still owes you. Then an AI headline with per-dog watchouts. It never invents a number.

  2. 02 / 7:30am

    Up next

    The first booking, the pet's one curated key note, and a leave-by line computed from your previous stop. Equipment to pack sits below it.

    Leave by 7:05 · 22 min drive · Glenmore Park
  3. 03 / 8:20am

    In the driveway

    Tap Start. Halfway through, hold the mic: “Bella's matting is worse on the back legs, book her in six weeks not eight.” It uploads and transcribes when the signal comes back.

    0:42 · queued for upload
  4. 04 / 9:10am

    Paid before you leave

    Finish, then Checkout. GST is pulled out of the tax-inclusive price. Tap the card on your own phone, or record cash or PayID. The invoice is numbered, branded and shareable from the same sheet.

    Tax invoice #0142Paid
    Full groom · Biscuit$110.00
    Includes GST$10.00
  5. 05 / Between jobs

    The small stuff

    A client rings: tap the number for Call, SMS or Copy. Running late? One tap sends the text. A new lead from Facebook? Send the intake link and they fill in their own pets.

    Hi Anna, it’s Sam from Sam’s Mobile Grooming. Running about 15 min late for Biscuit, sorry! See you soon.

  6. 06 / 4:40pm

    End of day

    “Did these happen?” All done. “Did they pay you?” Cash, Card or PayID per booking. Every answer writes a real invoice, so takings, BAS and owed-to-you are all true.

    All doneCashCardPayID
Moving over · from whatever you use now

We’ll bring your clients across with you.

Send us whatever you’ve got. A spreadsheet, a calendar export, a booking app’s CSV, or a list of names and numbers in a notes app. We’ll go through it with you, work out what’s worth keeping, and clean it up together before any of it lands in your account.

Usually comes across · clients · pets · contact details · visit history · recurring patterns

The honest part

We won’t pretend we can read every format sight unseen. Some exports are messy, some are missing the bits that matter, and a few aren’t worth importing at all. So we look at yours first, tell you plainly what will and won’t make it, and you decide before anything moves.

Founders 100

The first 100 groomers lock in our best price for two years.

We’re opening the doors slowly, to the people we built this for. Join the waitlist now and you’re in line for a founder spot when they open.

100

Founder spots · price locked 2 years

Solo & Assistant tiers

  • Best price, locked for 24 months

    Whatever we charge later, founders pay the launch price until 2028.

  • Assistant-tier features at the Solo price

    Unlimited bookings, up to 3 team members, 500 SMS a month.

  • 30-day trial instead of 14

    Long enough to run a real fortnight and a real BAS.

  • Your messages reach me, not a queue

    In-app support lands in our Slack. You'll shape what we build next.

Join the Founders 100

We’ll email you when your spot opens. First come, first served.

No spam. One email when we launch, one when your spot is ready. Unsubscribe any time.

Launch pricing in AUD. Founder pricing applies to the first 100 paid signups and is honoured for 24 months from launch.