Built for someone who is already mid-season
Chester is built for a professional who is usually leaving another tool, mid-season, with live clients and money in flight. It was built knowing that. This page is the honest account of how the move works.
The same Tuesday, twice
Same clients, same animals, same bookings. The only difference is how much of your evening the admin takes back.
On your current tool
On Chester
A client moves Thursday's walk
Walking
On your current tool
The text arrives mid-walk. You retype it into your calendar tonight, if you remember.
On Chester
The request lands in Chester. You approve it with one tap and the schedule updates itself.
A week of sitting visits
Sitting
On your current tool
Eleven things to remember per visit, and a text at ten o'clock asking whether the cat ate.
On Chester
A checklist per visit, asked once for the home and once per animal, and a report that answers the question before it is sent.
After a full groom
Grooming
On your current tool
The photographs stay in your camera roll with the best intentions.
On Chester
A report card with coat, ears, skin, teeth and nails, sent before the next dog is on the table.
Invoicing day
Every service
On your current tool
A spreadsheet, last month's texts, cross-checking who actually paid, then the awkward follow-up to whoever has not.
On Chester
Invoices generate from the bookings that already happened. Chester chases the late ones for you; the relationship stays yours.
Your team's day
Every service
On your current tool
Group-chat archaeology to find out who covered the 2pm.
On Chester
Each team member sees their own schedule, with permissions you set.
The move itself
Chester has a built-in Migration Centre. These four steps are not a promise of a future feature. They are what it does today.
Upload your client list
A spreadsheet, an export from your current tool, whatever you have. Chester takes it as it is.
Review what Chester found
Chester reads your list and shows you every client and pet it recognized. Nothing is created until you have looked at it and said yes.
Invite everyone at once
One action sends each client their own portal invite, from you, with your name on it.
Run your week
A status board shows who has landed. Your old tool keeps working until the day you decide you are done with it.
If any of this sounds familiar
Most people arrive here because of something specific. These are the four we hear most.
It freezes while you are working
That is not a you problem. Chester is a native app on iPhone and Android, not a web page wrapped to look like one.
It was built for a facility, not for one person
Chester is built for independent professionals. It assumes you are on your feet with one hand free, in someone else's home or at your own table, not behind a reception desk.
Every payment carries a fee
Not here. Card payments carry one transparent service fee. Cash and e-transfer cost nothing, and you choose who covers it.
You think your client list is stuck there
It is not. A spreadsheet or an export is enough. Chester reads it, shows you every client and pet it recognized, and creates nothing until you have said yes.
What your clients notice
An invite from you, with your name on it. They tap it, see their own pets, and book the way they always have. Their history, report cards, and invoices live in one place from then on. Chester is designed so the only thing a client should notice about your switch is that you seem more organized than ever.
Bring your season with you
Your clients, their pets, your schedule, and your standards. The move is one evening, and you will not make it alone.