# AI phone assistant for dog groomers Source: https://terminio.ai/en/branchen/dog-groomers/ai-phone-assistant AI phone assistant for dog groomers: answers while you dry a dog, asks breed and size, checks free slots and books. German number and 200 minutes included. Answers while you've got both hands on a dog, asks breed and size and books straight into your calendar. An AI phone assistant for dog groomers answers calls while you've got both hands on a dog: it asks breed and size, checks free slots live and books straight into your calendar. At terminio.ai it is part of Pro Voice, with a German phone number and 200 call minutes, no setup fee, set up in about ten minutes. ## One call. And everything in the salon that hangs on it. - Booked online, booked by phone: one calendar. Whoever would rather tap books through your link after the evening walk: service, the dog's size, time. Whoever would rather call gets the assistant. Both land in the same salon calendar in the same minute, with no double booking. - Prices on the phone. Deposit on hand-stripping. If an owner asks what the full groom costs, the assistant tells them, or says it depends on the work. You decide. The deposit you set per service: on the two-hour hand-strip through Stripe, nothing on a nail trim. - Picks up while clippers and dryer are running. Set a call forward, done. When the line is busy, nobody picks up or the salon is closed, the assistant answers with your name and your greeting. It asks breed and size, checks free slots live, books and summarises every call in the app. - Booked by phone, confirmed on WhatsApp. An appointment the assistant books runs like any other booking: WhatsApp confirmation straight away, a reminder before the appointment, from your number, in your words, "bring the vaccination record" included. Whoever can't make it writes back, straight into your chat. - It knows who is at the table when. The assistant looks at the real salon calendar: working hours, colleagues, the duration of every service. Hand-stripping a terrier only gets a slot where two hours are free. If a regular asks for Sina, it tries to book exactly her. - Every call in the app. On the watch too. After every call you get a push message with summary, outcome and duration. Callbacks land in their own list, say the request for a quiet slot for a nervous dog. Web app on the counter, app on iPhone and Android, smartwatch on the wrist. ## Common questions **What happens if I've got a wet dog on the table and the phone rings?** You don't pick up, and after the ring the AI phone assistant takes over. It answers with your salon's name and your greeting, asks breed and size, checks free slots and books. After the call the summary is in the app. You read it once the dog is dry. **Does it know a full groom on a large dog takes longer than on a small one?** Yes, if you set the service up per size: full groom small dog ninety minutes, medium dog two hours, large dog three. The assistant asks breed and size first and only offers times where the right duration is free. It quotes prices if you allow that. **An owner calls because their dog can't cope with other dogs. What does the assistant do?** Whatever it shouldn't handle itself it passes on to you. If you can't be reached, it takes name, number and reason, say the request for a quiet slot early in the morning. That lands in the app under your callbacks, and you book the dog into the blocked first hour yourself. **Do I need a new phone number for the assistant?** No. You get a German phone number from terminio, and your existing number stays on the website and on Google. You only set a call forward, for example for when nobody picks up. In the Pro Voice plan the number is included. **Can regulars ask for their usual groomer on the phone?** Yes, if you switch it on. The assistant then tries to book exactly that colleague and looks at her calendar to do it. Switch it off and it names nobody, and you decide in the salon who takes Bruno. Reschedules and cancellations it handles straight in the calendar as well. **Does it pick up in the evening and at the weekend too?** Yes. The AI phone assistant for dog groomers has no opening hours. You decide when it takes over: always, only when nobody picks up, or only outside opening hours. Then it knows the salon is closed and doesn't refer callers to you. Owners reach you on a Sunday after the walk as well. **What does an AI phone assistant cost?** On the market, between roughly 30 € and several hundred euros a month, depending on whether billing is per minute, per call or a flat rate, and whether the phone number costs extra. At terminio.ai the AI phone assistant for dog groomers is included in Pro Voice: 129.99 € a month, German number and 200 call minutes included, every further minute 0.25 €. No setup fee, cancel monthly. **Is there a free AI phone assistant?** A permanently free one hardly exists, because the phone number and the call minutes cost the provider money. What does exist is a free start: at terminio.ai you begin on Free without payment details, with a booking page, a calendar and the app. The AI phone assistant for dog groomers comes with Pro Voice, with no setup fee and no minimum term, cancel monthly. **What can an AI phone assistant do?** It answers while you've got both hands on a dog, greets callers with the name of your business and deals with the request: it asks breed and size, checks free slots in your calendar, books, moves and cancels. It knows how long a full groom takes and only offers gaps that fit. Anything it shouldn't handle it forwards to you or takes down as a callback with name, number and reason. After every call there is a summary in the app. --- terminio.ai is online appointment booking for small businesses with WhatsApp reminders and an AI phone assistant, from €0 a month, hosted in the EU. Provider: terminio.ai UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Großschönau, Saxony, Germany.