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Booking software for kennels and catteries

Take the booking.
Skip the phone call.

Your customers pick their dates and their pets on your own booking page. The request arrives with a total, a vaccination date and how many runs it needs — so you can approve it from the sofa instead of walking back to the diary. The rest of the day, week and year is on the same board.

£8 a user a month, excluding VAT. No commission on a booking, and no card details to start. See what is included

Create your business account and your booking page in one sitting. No installation, no training day.

This weekMon 9 – Sun 15 Nov
Runs occupied12 of 18
Arrivals
3
Departures
2
Waiting on you
2
  • Martha · 2 dogs14 – 21 Nov · vaccinations in dateReview
  • Otis · 1 dog15 – 18 Nov · vaccination runs out 16 NovNeeds a date
Illustration of the owner dashboard.

Booked at 10pm, without you

Approved by you, before it counts

Written down, not remembered

The daily grind

A kennel diary has four jobs. You do all of them mid-muck-out.

Check the diary

Was the 14th free? Is Otis in run 3 or run 5? Does the family with two dogs fit at all?

Check the money

Who has paid, who has promised to pay, and who is going to pay on collection with a card you cannot take.

Check the paperwork

Which vaccination runs out before the stay ends, and which owner swears it is up to date.

Answer it all again

The same four questions, forty times a week, usually with a dog barking in the background.

How it works

Three things, then you are open.

  1. 01

    Tell it about your place

    How many runs you have, what a night costs, and whether you ask for vaccinations. That is the setup done — a second branch is a second set of runs, not a second product.

  2. 02

    Send one link

    Customers pick dates and pets on your own page. They see the total before they ask. You get a request, not a voicemail.

  3. 03

    Run the day from one board

    Approve or decline, see arrivals and departures, work the care round, and ask for the balance — from the same screen, on the phone in your pocket.

What it does

Everything a booking needs, in the order it happens.

No dashboards you have to interpret. Each screen is one of the jobs you already do — it is just already done when you get there.

Requests arrive complete

Dates, times, pets, sizes and a total worked out by the same service that will charge it — not a text message wondering whether the last week of August is free.

Approvals before commitments

Nothing is confirmed until you say so. Approve or decline, and the booking’s status follows the decision.

Capacity that holds

If the runs are taken, the booking cannot be taken twice. Two dogs that need two runs are counted as two, and the count is per branch.

The whole day on one board

Arrivals, departures, feeds, medication rounds, temperature readings and runs to turn around — today’s work in one place, with a notification on the phone before each one is due.

Vaccination dates on the booking

Record when the vaccination expires. With the policy on, a stay that runs past that date is refused before it reaches your board.

Your rates, your page, your rules

Your nightly rates and your seasons, per branch. Your booking page, your customers and your records — nothing shared with the kennel down the road.

In the yard, not at the desk

Built for one hand. The other is holding a lead.

Kennel work does not happen at a desk. It happens at the gate while a family unloads the car, in the run with a hose in one hand, and in the office at ten at night when you finally remember the phone call. So every screen was built for a phone first — one job at a time, buttons a thumb can hit, and nothing that needs a mouse, a manual or a training day.

  • No app to installIt is a web page. Open the link, sign in, done — the phone in your pocket is the whole installation.
  • One job per screenBooking a stay, approving one, turning a run around: each screen asks one question and gets out of the way.
  • Written down as you goApprove it from the yard and the diary, the runs and the record are already right when you get back indoors.
For your customersA stay booked at the school gateDates, two dogs and a total — before anyone is asked for an account.
For youThe morning, cleared standing upArrivals, a run to turn around and a request approved, in under a minute.

Both clips are recordings of this app on a 430px-wide screen, not mockups. Sound off — there is nothing to hear.

Three dogs running across grass towards the camera

Built for the people who clean out the runs, not just the ones who buy the software.

When someone asks

The answer is already written down.

Which dogs were here in the week of the 14th? What did Otis eat, and did he get his tablets on the Tuesday? Was the vaccination in date when the stay ended? Who collected him, and at what time? Every stay keeps its own record — written as the work happens, on the phone in your hand, rather than typed up from memory a week later.

  • Dates, pets and how many runs each booking needs
  • A care sheet per pet: feeds, medication, walks, notes
  • Check-in and check-out times, recorded as they happen
  • Vaccination dates as they stood for that stay
  • Requested, approved or declined — and when, and by whom
  • The total agreed, the payments taken and what is still owed
The record, as you goA feed, a dose, a readingThree taps in the yard. Nothing to type up afterwards.

Getting paid

The money, without the chasing.

Connect your bank once, and take a card payment whenever you want one. Ask for a deposit when you confirm the stay, or the balance the week before they arrive — the customer gets a card page by email, and the booking shows what has landed and what has not.

  • Ask for part of it or all of it — the amount is capped at what is owed.
  • Sell extras mid-stay: a play session, a groom, a treat.
  • Refund from the booking, with the record showing what went back.
  • Card fees are the card processor’s, charged at cost. There is no platform cut on top.
What it costs
  • No commission. Your customers’ payments reach you in full; the platform takes nothing from a booking.
  • Your name on the invoice. Raised as your document, with your legal name and your VAT number if you have one.
  • One bill a month. The same figure whatever you take through the year, so a good August does not cost you more.

Your team

Staff who see what their job needs. Nobody else.

Everyone who works here gets their own sign-in, priced the same as yours. You decide whether they can approve bookings, administer medication, sign a temperature reading off, see the reports, or manage the team — one switch each. Revoke someone and their access and their phone notifications go with it.

Not on the rota? Not in the app.

A permission is a bit, not a guess. The person who does the morning round can record a feed without being able to change what a night costs.

A log of who did what

Every feed, dose and reading records the person who entered it, so “did anyone give him his tablets?” has an answer that is not a group chat.

Two languages, both finished

The staff app reads in English or French, chosen per person — not a translated menu over an English form.

Built for a data request

A customer can ask what you hold about them. You can produce it, and erase it, from one screen, with the statutory clock in view.

The price

£8 a user a month,
excluding VAT.

A user is anyone who can sign in: you, and each person you give access to. Your customers are not users — they book, they pay, and they cost you nothing.

  • No commission on a booking. Ever.
  • Every feature on this page, on every plan. There is one plan.
  • No card details to set up, and no minimum term.
  • Not VAT registered? You will not be charged VAT — the price is quoted excluding it, so you see the number that applies to you.

A worked example

3 users · £24 a month

You and two members of staff. Standard, billed monthly, excluding VAT — and it is the same £24 whether those three take two bookings that month or forty.

Straight answers

Questions owners ask before they sign up.

What does it cost?

£8 a user a month, excluding VAT, with no commission on a booking. A user is anyone who can sign in; your customers are free. The full price list is on the pricing page.

Do I need to install anything?

No. It runs in a browser, on the computer in the office and on the phone in your pocket. Your customers use it the same way.

Does it work for a cattery?

Yes. Cats and dogs are priced by size in the same way, and a cattery uses runs exactly as a kennel does.

How do customers pay?

Ask for a card payment from the booking and the customer gets a page by email — or take payment the way you always have. Either way the request arrived with the total already agreed, so nobody is working it out at the door.

What if I do not want the booking?

Decline it. The request keeps its place in the record, and the run is not held.

Is my data separate from other kennels?

Yes. Each business is its own tenant with its own customers and bookings, and signing in to one kennel gives you no access to another.

Can I bring my existing bookings across?

Not yet. Setup starts with your runs and your booking page; importing a paper diary is still to come, and we will say so rather than pretend otherwise.

Open your booking page this afternoon.

Add your runs, set your rates, share the link. The first request will tell you whether this was worth the hour.

Or ask first

Not sure whether this fits your kennel? Tell us how you work and we will answer, including if the answer is no.

Where the reply goes. It is the only address we use it for.

Ask in your own words. We answer every one.

Or email hello@kennelboard.com.

The form sends your question to us and a copy to you, and stores nothing. We use what you write only to answer you.