Getting Started
Set up your Chester account
Getting started takes about three minutes: create your account, verify your email, and tell Chester what you offer. Then you're ready to take bookings.
The short version
- Sign up with your name, business name, and email.
- Verify your email.
- Pick the services you offer and activate a few to start. Done.
On your phone
- On the login screen, tap Sign Up (under "Service provider?").
- Enter your first and last name, business name, email, and a password, agree to the Terms, and tap Create Account.
- Check your email for a 6-digit code and enter it to verify.
- Chester walks you through three quick steps:
- What do you offer? - pick every service type that applies (dog walking, pet sitting, boarding, grooming, training, daycare).
- Here's a head start - Chester suggests a few ready-made services; keep the ones that fit.
- You're set up - tap Go to my dashboard.
On the web
- On the sign-up page, enter your name, business name, email, and a password, agree to the Terms, and click Create my account.
- Check your email and click the confirmation link to activate your account.
- Chester walks you through the same three steps: pick your service types, activate a few starter services, and you're set.
Good to know
- You don't set up everything at once. Adding your address, connecting Stripe for payments, and inviting clients come later - Chester shows them as a setup checklist on your dashboard, so you can take a booking first and fill in the rest as you go.
- One difference between phone and web: your phone verifies with a 6-digit code you type in; the web sends a link you click.
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