KennelStackSwitch from Gingr to Groomify
Checked 11 Nov 2026
Gingr's grooming plan starts at $109 a month. Groomify's salon pricing starts at $63 per location, its team imports Gingr records free, and it offers 14 days before paying. Here is what both makers say moves, what they say does not, and how the switch is meant to go.
The short version
Why businesses look at this switch
- Price at the entry points: Gingr's Spa plan is $109/mo billed monthly ($100 on annual billing); Groomify's salon pricing starts at $63/mo per location. These are different plan tiers with different feature sets, so the gap is not a like-for-like saving - compare what you actually use first.
- What Groomify adds, per its own pages: an AI receptionist add-on that answers the phone 24/7 (from $109/mo), breed suggestions from a pet's photo, AI marketing drafts, and route optimization for mobile vans.
- What you keep: appointment scheduling, online booking, client and pet profiles, payment processing, two-way texting and automated reminders.
Your records
What moves, and what does not
- Moves over: clients with phone, email and address; pets with breed, notes and vaccination records; appointment and reservation history; your service menu with durations and prices; your staff list and roles. Packages and memberships are re-created with you during migration.
- Payment cards are a maybe: Groomify's guide says clients re-add a card through Stripe at their first booking. Card migration between processors is sometimes possible as a provider-assisted transfer, so confirm your exact path with both providers - and budget for clients needing to re-enter cards.
- Your booking link changes: point the booking button on your website and Google Business Profile at the new Groomify page, and redirect old links from your site where you can.
The move
How switching works, step by step
- 1Export from Gingr: download your clients, pets, reservations and services as CSV files from Gingr's reports. Gingr's support can tell you which reports to run.
- 2Start Groomify's 14-day free trial - no card needed - and upload the files. The importer maps Gingr's columns to Groomify's fields and flags anything it cannot match for you to confirm.
- 3Spot-check a handful of clients and pets against Gingr, then set your hours and staff.
- 4Run both systems side by side for a few days. Per Groomify, most businesses are booking on it within days of starting.
- 5Move the booking link on your website and Google Business Profile.
- 6Tell clients once: the new booking link, and that they will add their card again at the first booking.
- 7Cancel Gingr only after a clean first billing cycle - and export your financial history before you close the account.
The money
The cost, side by side
- Groomify, salonFrom $63/mo per location · from $756 the first year · 20% off on annual billingFrom $63/mo
- Gingr, Spa$109/mo billed monthly · $1,308 the first year · $100/mo on annual billing ($1,200)$109/mo
Groomify's salon price is published as "from $63", so treat it as the entry point, not a quote, and it is not the same tier as Gingr's Spa plan. Boarding and daycare businesses start higher on Groomify (from $168). Base subscriptions before card fees, taxes and add-ons.
Full disclosure
Worth knowing
- The migration claims on this page - what gets imported and how fast businesses switch - come from Groomify's own switching guide, the destination maker. We verified the prices at both makers' pages; we have not run a migration ourselves, so treat the import claims as vendor-reported and untested.
- Switching has costs beyond the subscription: clients re-enter their payment cards, your booking link changes everywhere it appears, and you run two systems in parallel for a few days.
- Whether Groomify fits depends on what you use: Gingr sells grooming, daycare and boarding as separate plans (Spa, Play and Stay), so if you run more than grooming, compare those tiers too - Groomify's boarding starts from $168/mo.