Talopet review
A broad scheduling platform for larger grooming operations that need AI phone booking.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Talopet is scheduling and business management software for pet groomers, mobile groomers, daycare operators, and boarding businesses. It combines appointment booking, groomer assignments, capacity-aware availability, pet records, reminders, payments, staff controls, marketing automation, and a branded booking website. Online booking supports deposits and self-service rescheduling, while pet profiles hold grooming history, notes, photos, and vaccine records. It is aimed at solo groomers through multi-location operations, with unlimited staff and month-to-month plans.
Pricing is structured across four tiers. Starter costs $99 per month and includes Access to Talo, unlimited staff, staff management, and online booking. Growth costs $199 per month and adds AI Receptionist, Automated Email Marketing, and SEO. Professional costs $299 per month and adds 40,000 email credits to Growth. Enterprise uses negotiated flat pricing with custom usage limits and entitlements, plus dedicated onboarding and rollout support. The pricing page also advertises the first month free with personalized onboarding. The cost makes Talopet a stronger fit for operations that can use its wider feature set than for a small business seeking a basic scheduler.
The standout capability is the combination of capacity-aware scheduling and AI phone booking. Talopet can assign appointments to groomers, apply staff schedules and permissions, collect deposits and payments, manage invoices and refunds, and support card-on-file payments. Its AI receptionist is paired with reminders, review requests, rebooking campaigns, and automated marketing, while native iOS and Android apps extend access beyond the web platform. Integrations include Square, Stripe, Clover, and Google. Choose Talopet when phone booking, staff coordination, records, payments, and customer re-engagement need to sit together; smaller operations may prefer a simpler, lower-cost scheduling tool.
Talopet pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Capacity-aware booking assigns groomers and manages availability.
- Pet records include history, notes, photos, and vaccine records.
- AI receptionist, marketing automation, and mobile apps extend the platform.
- Where it doesn't
- Plans start at $99 per month, with no free plan.
- AI Receptionist begins with the $199-per-month Growth plan.
- Enterprise pricing is negotiated rather than published as a fixed amount.
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