Starter
Up to 75 bookings per month
Every feature and team access included, with SMS reminders (50 credits a month).
£19/mo
Barkway vs Savvy Pet
Barkway vs Savvy Pet. Booking-volume pricing or feature tiers? That is the real difference.
Both Barkway and Savvy Pet are grooming-specific. Savvy Pet unlocks more capability as you move through four published feature tiers, plus a custom Enterprise plan; Barkway keeps its core product consistent and changes price with monthly booking volume instead.
Barkway keeps pet history, appointments, money and follow-up connected instead of treating them as separate modules.Comparison checked 1st October 2026
At a glance
Compare the things that actually change what you pay.
Savvy Pet starts at £25/month and progresses through Basic, Advanced, Extra and Salon. Barkway starts at £19/month and bases its published plans on booking volume rather than feature access.
Entry price
Barkway
£19/month
Savvy Pet
£25/month Basic
Published plans
Barkway
£19 / £29 / £39
Savvy Pet
£25 / £38 / £48 / £53
Pricing model
Barkway
Booking-volume bands; core features stay included
Savvy Pet
Feature-based tiers with more capability unlocked at higher plans
Online booking
Barkway
Included across Barkway plans
Savvy Pet
Listed from the £48/month Extra plan
Client portal
Barkway
Included across Barkway plans
Savvy Pet
Listed from the £48/month Extra plan
SMS allowance
Barkway
50 / 100 / 150 credits per month
Savvy Pet
150 on Advanced; 350 on Extra and Salon
Card payments and deposits
Barkway
Included on every plan, via Stripe
Savvy Pet
Payments & invoices listed from Advanced (£38)
Team tools
Barkway
Team access and roles included
Savvy Pet
Staff rota, permissions and groomer calendar views are listed from Extra
Multi-location
Barkway
Custom conversation for multi-location/high-volume setups
Savvy Pet
Salon plan at £53/month adds multi-location dashboards and switching
Minimum term
Barkway
No published minimum term. Cancel any time.
Savvy Pet
3-month minimum subscription on every published plan
Pricing & limits
Compare the plan you would actually need, not just the cheapest number on the page.
Barkway
Pricing changes with monthly booking volume.
Growth
Most popularUp to 150 bookings per month
Every feature and team access included, with SMS reminders (100 credits a month).
£29/mo
Professional
Up to 300 bookings per month
Every feature and team access included, with SMS reminders (150 credits a month).
£39/mo
Savvy Pet
Published pricing checked 1st October 2026.
Basic
Core records and electronic calendar. 3-month minimum.
£25/month
- Customer and pet information
- Electronic calendar
- Email reminders
- Grooming notes
Advanced
Adds more day-to-day business tools. 3-month minimum.
£38/month
- Payments and invoices
- Reports and analytics
- Custom forms
- 150 SMS credits
Extra
Savvy Pet labels this its most popular plan. 3-month minimum.
£48/month
- Online booking
- Customer portal
- Staff rota and permissions
- 350 SMS credits
Salon
The multi-location tier. 3-month minimum.
£53/month
- Everything in Extra
- Multi-location dashboards
- Switch between salons
- 350 SMS credits
Which one fits?
There should be a good reason to choose either.
Choose Barkway if…
- You want online booking, team access and the client portal without moving to a higher feature tier.
- You prefer pricing that changes with booking volume rather than a checklist of unlocked features.
- Smart Scheduler™, recall and connected appointment context fit the way you organise a grooming day.
Choose Savvy Pet if…
- You need the 350 bundled SMS credits on Savvy Pet Extra or Salon.
- You specifically want Savvy Pet’s Gmail/iCal integration, forms or established feature set.
- You need a published £53 multi-location salon tier rather than discussing a custom setup.
The trade-offs
The useful differences show up in the working day.
01 · Feature gates
The headline price is only useful if it includes what you need.
Savvy Pet Basic is £25, but its own pricing page places payments, analytics and SMS on Advanced, then online booking, client portal and staff permissions on Extra at £48. Barkway’s core feature set stays available across its booking-volume plans.
02 · Messaging
Savvy Pet bundles more SMS into the higher tiers.
Savvy Pet lists 150 monthly SMS credits on Advanced (£38) and 350 on Extra and Salon. Its £25 Basic plan lists email reminders only. Barkway includes SMS reminders on every plan from £19, with allowances of 50, 100 or 150 credits. Barkway Professional matches the 150 credits on Savvy Pet Advanced.
03 · Scale
Both scale, but they express scale differently.
Barkway’s public pricing scales with booking volume up to 300 bookings per month. Savvy Pet scales primarily through feature tiers, with its Salon plan adding multi-location management.
04 · Minimum term
Savvy Pet publishes a 3-month minimum.
Every published Savvy Pet plan states that a subscription for a minimum of 3 months is required. Barkway doesn’t publish a minimum term, and the pricing page says you can cancel any time.
How we compare
Checked 1st October 2026
We build Barkway, so this isn’t an independent review. Competitor prices and limits are taken from the companies’ own published pages and we deliberately include reasons you might prefer them. If something changes, we want to correct it.
Questions
The bits worth checking twice.
Is Barkway cheaper than Savvy Pet?+
Barkway’s published plans start at £19/month while Savvy Pet starts at £25/month. The more important comparison is the plan containing the features you need: Savvy Pet lists online booking and its customer portal on Extra at £48/month.
Which has more included SMS credits?+
Savvy Pet publishes 150 SMS credits on Advanced and 350 on Extra and Salon. Barkway includes 50, 100 or 150 credits depending on plan.
Does Barkway charge extra for team access?+
No. Barkway includes team access and roles across its published plans. Savvy Pet lists staff rota, permissions and groomer-specific calendar views from its £48 Extra plan.
Which supports multiple locations?+
Savvy Pet publishes multi-location features on its £53 Salon plan. Barkway asks higher-volume or multi-location businesses to talk to us so the setup and pricing can be matched to the business.
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Still deciding?
Put a real grooming week through Barkway.
Use your own diary, clients and dogs. The difference is much easier to judge when the software has to survive a real working day.