Software for Boarding Facilities
Boarding is a capacity-and-rate-plan business wearing a pet-care costume. Length-of-stay pricing, holiday surcharges, medical kennels, and a clean audit trail matter more than anything on the marketing page.
Boarding, from reservation to checkout.
Run grid & rate plan
Runs as rows, days as columns, color-coded by rate plan. Length-of-stay pricing and holiday surcharges applied automatically.
Meds & feeding notes
Medication schedules, feeding instructions, and belongings logged where overnight staff will actually see them.
Capacity & overflow
Real-time run availability, with medical and VIP runs held back so you don’t oversell the holiday weekend.
Exit grooming & billing
Add-on grooming, daycare days, and retail roll into one clean invoice with the audit trail intact.
Software, in priority order.
Kennel grid, rate plans, and length-of-stay logic.
Deposits on holiday bookings, billed cleanly.
Overnight protocols and medication handling SOPs.
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Calculators for boarding operators.
Where these picks come from.
Public pricing & docs
We compare each vendor’s public pricing, documentation, and demos against a representative boarding workflow, rather than ranking from feature lists alone.
Pricing is a snapshot
Pricing reflects public rates at the time of writing and can change by plan, term, add-ons, and promotions. Always confirm current pricing with the vendor.
Operator perspective
We frame every pick around how a pet-care business actually runs, with input from working operators where we have it, and we flag what we could not verify.
Common questions.
What makes boarding software different from daycare software?
Boarding lives in the run grid and the rate plan: length-of-stay pricing, holiday surcharges, medical kennels, and a clean audit trail. Daycare-first tools often handle these as an afterthought.
Do I need separate software if I do both daycare and boarding?
No, the better all-in-one platforms handle both. The question is which side is your center of gravity; boarding-heavy operations should weight kennel logic most.
How far ahead should the system check vaccines?
Against the reservation date, not today. On advance bookings, a vaccine that lapses before the stay is a real liability if the software only checks the current date.
Picking software is half the job, the other half is getting found. PawPoint Marketing runs websites, reviews, and local ads for boarding businesses. We send operators their way when growth, not tooling, is the bottleneck.