Pawline: booking built around the van, for mobile pet groomers
Pawline is a booking system for a small mobile pet grooming business: one van, two groomers, three Austin zones.
Most booking tools treat a mobile groomer like a salon. The real problem is logistics: travel fees by zone, visits with several pets that take different amounts of time, and one van that can't be double-booked.
What it does:
🐾 ZIP check with instant zone travel fees
🐾 Live pricing and visit length for up to 4 pets, including add-ons and setup time
🐾 Only shows time slots the van can actually fit, and respects the owner's blocked time
🐾 Private links so customers can reschedule or cancel without an account
🐾 Owner dashboard with a daily van timeline
🐾 Public demo mode with fictional bookings and hidden customer details
Built for real use: owner-only data access, leaked-password protection, and full end-to-end testing on desktop and mobile.
"Booking built around the van" is brilliant positioning. Does the app make sure all appointments on the same day are in the same neighborhood so the van doesn't waste time driving back and forth?
Thank you! Not yet. Right now zones set the travel fee, and every visit includes a flat 20-minute setup and travel buffer, but any open slot can be booked from any zone.
Route-aware scheduling is the next step. The simplest version is zone days (for example, East on Tuesdays)....
Thanks Tabish! That was the whole idea. A salon books chairs, but a mobile groomer books the van: travel by zone, every pet's grooming time plus setup, and no overlaps. Once you design around that, most of the features follow.
Thanks Rafee! The demo mode came from a practical problem: judges and visitors need to see the owner side, but real customer data should never be exposed. So it uses fictional sample bookings and hides all contact details, and anything you change stays in your browser tab and resets on reload.
Clean and confident work! The green gradient with the mark feels very modern for fintech - trustworthy but not boring. The app screens look really polished. Curious how you landed on this mark, does it represent growth / movement?