How Mobile Dog Grooming Businesses Can Benefit from GPS Fleet Tracking
20 Jul 2015More and more businesses are adopting GPS fleet tracking technology to save money and improve the overall customer experience. When it comes to mobile dog grooming businesses there are a few other benefits GPS fleet tracking provides that are well worth mentioning.
Verify Stops
It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a while stops get missed on hectic days. It can be the result of a Golden Retriever gone wild, a Chihuahua on a rampage, the hounds of, ahem, Hades have been loosed in the grooming truck, or something as crazy as a turned around driver that sets the wheels of chaos in motion.
Without GPS fleet tracking, little Frodo the basset hound can get skipped in a long line of grooming appointments for the day. With GPS fleet tracking, though, even if one truck runs behind, there’s generally someone nearby that can either pick up the slack or reschedule the poor pooch before his owners know he’s been missed.
The other benefit GPS tracking provides when it comes to verifying stops is that it can back your groomers up that they did in fact stop as claim and spend an appropriate amount of time to account for the grooming services they provide at a given location. This provides an adequate indication of services when false claims are made against your drivers.
Efficient Routing and Scheduling
The ability to plan routes more efficiently not only saves struggling mobile grooming services valuable dollars when it comes to gasoline, but also helps to keep labor costs in line as well. The combination of efficient routing and scheduling takes it one step further keeping groomers on task, on target, and in the black when it comes to hours – no overtime!
This in turn makes customers happy as they have realistic expectations of arrival times. Customers are busy people too, and the reason they subscribe to mobile grooming services in the first place is to save time so they can devote their few free hours to things other than dog grooming appointments.
When planning efficient routes and giving customers accurate appointment windows, you win their loyalty month after month. Well, as long as you do an outstanding job of grooming the precious pups in your care.
Manage Appointments (Even Recurring Appointments)
The latest GPS fleet tracking systems allow customers to set up future appointments and even recurring appointments to coincide with their own pay dates or according to the needs of their animals for grooming. The convenience of these types of appointments being associated with the GPS system is that they are already in the route plans for the date – one that may be months away.
Mobile dog grooming businesses have a lot on your plates. GPS fleet tracking takes one of the challenges out of a day in the life so you can focus your attention on the business at hand.
Do you own or operate a mobile dog grooming business? Call LiveView GPS today at 1-888-502-3636 to learn how GPS fleet tracking can benefit your business.
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