MoeGo vs Time To Pet (2026): Per-Van vs Per-Staff Pricing

Updated: November 2, 2026 · 10 min read · By Grooming Software HQ

Grooming Software HQ Editorial Team

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The Short Version

These two get compared constantly, and the comparison is usually framed wrong. MoeGo and Time To Pet are not competing for the same job. MoeGo is grooming software that happens to handle a fleet. Time To Pet is pet care software that happens to handle grooming.

The tell is in how each one bills you, and it's the single most useful thing to understand before you shop features. MoeGo charges for capacity — per van, per location. Add three groomers to one van and your bill doesn't move. Time To Pet charges for labor — per active staff member. Add three vans to a three-person team and your bill doesn't move.

That means the same two price lists produce opposite answers depending on whether your business grows by hiring people or by buying vehicles. Get that backwards and you'll overpay for years.

At a Glance

Side-by-Side Comparison

The Pricing Math That Actually Decides It

Both vendors publish their numbers, so this one can be settled with arithmetic rather than opinion.

MoeGo's mobile grooming plans run $49/month for Basic, which covers a single team member and 200 SMS per van; $99/month per van for Growth, which lifts that to unlimited team members and 900 SMS per van; and $159/month per van for Ultimate, which adds unlimited automated messages, a branded phone number, and live guided support sessions. Enterprise is custom-quoted at 900 SMS per location. Salon plans cost more than mobile ones: Basic is $79/month for up to two team members and 300 SMS per location, Growth is $149/month per location with unlimited team members and 1,350 SMS, and Ultimate is $239/month per location. MoeGo counts only outgoing texts, so client replies do not use your allowance, and extra texts come in add-on packs whose prices MoeGo does not publish.

Time To Pet runs Lite at $25/month ($250/year) and Solo at $50/month ($500/year) for one-person companies, then Team at $40/month plus $16/month per active staff member. Teams over 25 move to custom pricing. Shops, boarding and daycare use a separate flat $79/month Facility plan, and combined in-home plus facility operations are quoted individually. The definition that matters: an active staff member is anyone with at least one scheduled service in the billing period, and office managers and admins always count.

Texting is priced separately, and it is easy to miss because it lives in Time To Pet's help center rather than on the pricing page. It costs $10/month to enable, includes 250 messages per active staff member pooled across the team, and bills overages at 2.5 cents. The allowance counts messages sent and received, so client replies use it up, and unused texts carry into the next month only. Lite cannot text at all, so a mobile groomer who sends reminders starts at Solo: $50 plus $10. Time To Pet publishes no texting price for Facility.

Put those side by side at real business sizes — assuming about 100 appointments per groomer a month, with three texts sent and one client reply each — and the differences are plain:

A salon doesn't use Time To Pet's per-staff Team plan. Its help center says grooming services are available on Facility accounts only, and Facility is a flat $79 with no per-staff charge, so hiring costs nothing on either platform. That makes Time To Pet about $70 a month cheaper than MoeGo Growth on the subscription alone, and level with MoeGo's $79 Basic, which allows two team members and 300 texts, about 100 appointments. The catch is what that $79 buys. MoeGo's price includes 1,350 texts per location, about 450 appointments, and doesn't count replies, while Time To Pet publishes no texting price for Facility. A busy salon on either platform should ask what extra texts cost. And on Facility, grooming can't be the primary service in a recurring template, and each grooming service holds one pet, so for a grooming salon these rows are a price comparison more than a product one.

The fleet row is the widest gap of all. A three-van mobile operation staffed by three groomers pays around $297/month on MoeGo Growth against about $109 on Time To Pet, texting included — a difference of more than $2,200 a year. That gap is not a mistake in MoeGo's pricing; it's what multi-van route optimization, per-van messaging, and grooming-native scheduling cost. But you should decide you're buying those things on purpose, not discover the bill after your second van.

One more line item worth naming: both vendors meter texting, just differently. MoeGo includes SMS per van or location — 200 or 300 on Basic, 900 or 1,350 on Growth — and counts only the texts you send, while Time To Pet charges $10/month for 250 messages per active staff member and counts client replies against it. Time To Pet also pushes a lot of communication through its own client app, which saves texts if your clients use it. If your clients never open apps, count your monthly texts, replies included, before comparing. See what grooming software really costs for how these add-ons stack up across the market.

Where MoeGo Pulls Ahead

MoeGo's advantages come from being built for this specific trade:

• It speaks grooming: Service durations that vary by breed and coat, grooming reports that go out to the client automatically after an appointment, and a scheduler that understands a groom is not a 30-minute walk. Time To Pet handles a grooming appointment as a service record; MoeGo handles it as a groom.
• Headcount is free: The Growth plan — $99 per van or $149 per salon location — covers unlimited team members. For a van that adds a bather, this is the whole argument: every person you add is $16/month cheaper than on Time To Pet's Team plan.
• Filling the calendar: Online booking without forcing an account, abandoned-booking recovery, missed-call lead capture, Review Booster for generating reviews, and Reserve with Google so clients can book straight from search. Time To Pet has the Local Pet Care marketplace, but MoeGo's demand tooling is broader.
• Multi-van routing: Route optimization across a fleet is a core MoeGo feature, not an adjacent one.
• Scale and compliance: Over 10,000 businesses, SOC 2 Type 2 certification, and PCI DSS compliance — worth something if you're a multi-location brand answering to a franchisor or an insurer.

Where Time To Pet Pulls Ahead

Time To Pet's case is about running people in the field and running more than one service line:

• Best-in-class mobile apps: Dedicated iOS and Android apps for clients and staff. Clients book, see history, chat, and get push notifications. Staff manage schedules, send photo updates, and complete visits from a phone. This remains the strongest mobile experience in pet care software.
• GPS visit verification: Route maps and check-in/check-out timestamps prove a visit happened. Essential for sitting and walking, and genuinely useful for a mobile groomer who wants location trails on appointments.
• Vehicles are free: Because billing follows people, not capacity, a growing fleet costs nothing extra. For a mobile business where one groomer equals one van, this is a structural discount.
• One platform for mixed services: If you groom on Tuesdays, board on weekends, and walk dogs daily, Time To Pet unifies it, though combining its in-home and Facility plans takes a custom quote. Running MoeGo alongside a separate sitting platform is a worse life than running one system that does both adequately.
• A low flat rate for facilities: $79 a month with no per-staff charge for boarding, daycare and shop grooming.
• Easy to try: A 14-day free trial with no credit card, against MoeGo's demo-led process.
• QuickBooks Online sync: Real accounting integration rather than exportable reports.

The trade-offs are real and worth stating. Time To Pet's per-staff Team plan punishes large field teams. Its customization depth creates a genuine learning curve. Clients must create an account to book, which costs you some conversions at the top of the funnel. And it has less grooming-native tooling — you'll set up services, pet fields and report cards yourself, adapting a pet care platform to a grooming workflow, which is fine until it isn't.

The Question That Settles It

Ignore the feature tables for a second and answer this: if this business doubles, what does it buy?

If it buys people for the same van, you want MoeGo, because MoeGo doesn't charge for them and Time To Pet's Team plan does. If it buys vehicles — a second van, a third — you want Time To Pet, because Time To Pet doesn't charge for those. In a shop, neither vendor charges for people, so the next question decides it.

The second question is narrower but just as decisive: is grooming most of your revenue? If yes, take the grooming-native platform even when the arithmetic is close, because the daily friction of forcing a sitting-shaped tool into a grooming day compounds in ways a spreadsheet won't show you. If grooming is a third of the business and sitting or daycare is the rest, Time To Pet's breadth wins.

Whichever way you go, export your client and pet data before you cancel anything. Both platforms import clients and pets; photos and older appointment history are what tend to disappear in a migration.

Which One Is Right for You?

Bottom Line

MoeGo is the better grooming software, and it isn't close — it was built for this work, and its per-van pricing means a growing team is free. Time To Pet is the better pet care platform, and that isn't close either — its apps, GPS tracking, and multi-service handling are what an established sitting or mixed-service business needs, and its per-staff pricing means a growing fleet is free.

So the honest recommendation is the boring one: pick the tool that matches the business you actually run, then check the arithmetic against your own headcount and vehicle count using the table above. If you're a grooming salon, MoeGo: it costs more than Time To Pet's $79 Facility plan, but that price includes texts and grooming-native tools, where Facility is a boarding plan with grooming added. If you're mixed-service with people in the field, Time To Pet. If you're a solo mobile groomer doing only grooming, you're in the overlap — and that's where our best mobile grooming software roundup and the cheaper grooming-first options are worth a look before you commit to either.

Both vendors change pricing periodically. Confirm current rates directly before you sign up.

Still comparing? See MoeGo vs Groomsoft for MoeGo against the cheapest flat-rate option, MoeGo vs Pawfinity for another multi-service angle, Pawfinity vs Time To Pet for the two multi-service platforms against each other, Groomer.io vs Time To Pet for the same per-van versus per-staff question at a lower price point, MoeGo vs Groomer.io and MoeGo vs GrooMore for cheaper grooming-first alternatives, GrooMore vs Time To Pet for Time To Pet against the budget grooming pick, or Groomer.io vs GrooMore for the budget head-to-head, or DaySmart Pet vs MoeGo for per-van billing against per-person tiers. Our best pet grooming software guide ranks the whole field. DaySmart Pet vs Time To Pet tests Time To Pet against a long-running grooming platform.

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