Built for pet care professionals

Pet Boarding & Kennel Management Software

Name: BooknBuddy
Price: 39.99 CAD

Never miss a booking. Grow your business with an all-in-one platform built for kennels, dog daycares, and pet care facilities. Streamline operations, automate notifications, manage bookings, and keep customers coming back.

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Kennel manager with drag & drop

Suite-by-suite calendar. Move a booking, swap a kennel, extend a stay — directly on the grid.

Per-kennel calendar with named suites as rows and drag-and-drop boarding bars across two weeks

Optional Gantt view for the month

Flip to a monthly Gantt to see every service — boarding, daycare, training, grooming — on one timeline.

Multi-service monthly Gantt calendar showing boarding, daycare, training, grooming and wellness color-coded by service

Daily ops

Your morning runs itself.

Drop-offs on the left. Currently checked in down the middle. Pickups on the right. Counts at the top so you know the building holds the number it should. Grooming clients show up next to boarding pickups because they always did anyway.

Live IN, CHECKED-IN and OUT counts
One-tap check-in and check-out from the card
Day-count badges per pet (Day 2, Day 5...)
Wellness, facility rentals and grooming roll into the same screen

Today dashboard with drop-offs, currently checked in, and pickups side by side

Grooming pricing engine

Coat-aware pricing the customer sees before they book.

Six coat groups — Short/Smooth, Double Coat, Curly/Doodle, Wire/Rough, Long/Silky, Giant Breeds — each with their own bath price, full-groom price, and slot duration. Pick the breed and the right coat group loads automatically. Tank the Malamute books 90 minutes at $90 bath / $120 full groom because that's what a Double Coat actually takes. The Cavapoo books 75 minutes at Curly/Doodle pricing. No more "we'll quote on arrival" surprises.

Six coat groups with independent bath + full-groom pricing
Duration per coat group drives the calendar — slots auto-size to the dog
Breed → coat group auto-detection from a built-in breed catalog
Auto-applied modifiers: matting, very matted, overdue (4+ months), first visit, difficult behavior, sanitary trim — each adds both price and extra time to the slot

Grooming pricing engine showing six coat groups with bath and full-groom prices and durations per group

Discounts & fees

Multi-pet, long-stay, late-pickup — set once, applied forever.

You already give the second dog a discount. You already charge for after-6pm pickups. You already mark up Christmas week. The booking math should reflect what you actually do, not what some 2014 booking tool thinks a kennel looks like.

Multi-pet, promo and long-stay discounts (stack or cap)
Holiday and peak surcharges with calendar-driven rules
Per-service late-pickup fees that trigger automatically
Minimum-booking-notice windows so 2am Christmas Eve bookings don't happen

Discounts configuration showing multi-pet, promo and long-stay rules

The unified checkout

Stay, retail, tip, tax — one screen.

This is the bit most pet software gives up on. Open the booking. Scan the dental bone and the Kong on the way out. Apply the boarding-retail bundle discount. Take payment via Square Terminal, Clover, cash, cheque, or any custom method you've named. Receipt sent, books reconciled, on to the next customer.

Unified checkout with the stay, scanned retail items, line-item invoice with discount and tax, plus terminal, cash and custom payment buttons

Scanner inline

Retail SKUs live next to the boarding line items. No separate POS, no rekeying inventory at the end of the day.

Tax and discounts handled

GST 15%, VAT 20%, GST/HST — applied per line, pushed to Xero or QuickBooks with the right tax codes already attached.

Any payment method

Square Terminal, Clover, Stripe card-not-present, cash, cheque, e-Transfer, or anything you've named yourself. Tip captured automatically when amount received exceeds the total.

Grooming day

The scheduler your groomer doesn't fight.

Week view, day view, groomer-by-groomer. Slot length and add-ons pull from the same pricing engine the booking page uses, so what the customer sees is what hits the chair. Previous-visit notes load on tap — coat condition, what worked, what didn't, the bandana colour they wanted last time.

Per-groomer weekly schedules with breaks and lunch blocks
Add-on suggestions pulled from the dog's last visit
Ready-for-pickup push that links straight to the unified checkout
Drag-edit times when the 8am no-shows or the 2pm runs long

Grooming weekly calendar with appointments laid out by groomer and time slot

Customer file

The card you stop having to rebuild.

One customer card. Every pet, every stay, every grooming visit, every payment, every photo update. Saved card on file (Square or Stripe) so balances at pickup are one tap. Notes are sticky. Vaccines roll forward. New staff are useful on day one because the dog's history is right in front of them.

Card on file for tap-to-charge at pickup
Vaccination expiry blocks future bookings automatically
Sticky notes that ride along with every booking
Full stay and grooming history per pet, per family

Grid of customer cards showing names, contacts and quick actions

The rest of what a pet care business needs.

All included. None of it sold as an upgrade.

Drop-off & pickup windows

Customers pick a time window when they book. Plan the morning instead of reacting to it.

Multi-pet families

One stay across two suites, one invoice, separate notes per dog. Split-suite supported.

Vaccination tracking

Customers upload at registration. Expired vaccines block new bookings without you having to chase.

Digital waivers

Signed once, stored forever, versioned so you can prove what was agreed and when.

Deposits per service

Charge a boarding deposit at booking. Grooming deposit only for new clients. Configure per service.

Automated reminders

Email and push for confirmations, drop-off day, pickup, balance due, and grooming ready-for-pickup.

Daily photo updates

Snap a photo on your phone. Customer gets it instantly. Cuts the "is she eating?" calls to nothing.

Xero & QuickBooks

Every invoice, every payment, every customer — straight to your books. AU + NZ + UK + CA tax codes handled.

Two-way messaging

Customers message from their app. You reply from yours. Photos attach, history lives on the booking. Free for every business — no add-on, no per-message charge.

Test Drive

Experience BooknBuddy firsthand

No signup required. Jump in and explore from either perspective.

Try as Pet Owner

Experience the customer side—browse the calendar, make a booking, see how easy it is for your clients.

View real availability
Make test bookings
See pricing & add-ons
Explore customer portal

Try as Business Owner

See the admin dashboard—manage bookings, adjust settings, experience your future command center.

Full admin dashboard
Approve bookings
Change settings
View calendar & reports

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Getting Started

Up and running in minutes

Follow these steps to start accepting online bookings

Configure Your Services

Set capacity, pricing, and availability rules for each service you offer.

Add to Your Website

Embed the booking widget with a single line of code, or share your booking link.

Accept Online Bookings

Customers book 24/7. You get notified instantly via email and push notifications.

Manage & Grow

Approve bookings, send updates, collect payments, and scale your business.

Video Tutorials

Learn with step-by-step guides

Watch these tutorials to get the most out of BooknBuddy

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For Pet Owners

Pet Parent HQ

One account. All your pet care.
Create a single profile for your pets and book with any business on BooknBuddy.

Your Pet Command Center

Manage all your pets, view bookings across multiple businesses, track vaccination records, and stay connected with your pet care providers.

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One pet profile everywhere

Vaccination records synced

View all bookings in one place

Get updates from your providers

Discover

Find Pet Services Near You

Discover trusted pet care providers in your area and surrounding communities.

Search by Location

Enter your city to explore pet care businesses on an interactive map. See all pet care providers within your search area and filter by the services you need.

Filter by Service Type

Looking for boarding, daycare, grooming, training, or in-home pet sitting? Filter the map to show only the services you need.

Explore Surrounding Areas

See businesses within within your search area. Zoom and pan the map to discover providers in neighboring cities and towns.

Book Instantly

Found the perfect provider? Click their pin to see details and book directly. Your pet profile syncs automatically.

Services You Can Find

Boarding Daycare Grooming Training Dental In-Home Sitting Pet Visits Dog Walking Facility Rental Board & Train

$39.99 a month. Try it for 30 days first.

No credit card to start. No per-booking fees. No surprise tier you have to upgrade into because you grew. See your calendar, your today view and your checkout running on your real bookings before you commit.

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Questions? info@booknbuddy.com

Taking card payments, and when you get the money

There is no fee for taking a booking, and none at all on cash, cheque or e-Transfer. When a client pays by card through BooknBuddy, there is a 1.5% platform fee on that payment, alongside your own processor’s rate. You keep your Stripe, Square or Clover account and their pricing stays between you and them.

Payout schedule	Who gets it	Platform fee
Weekly — every Friday	Every account, from day one	1.5%
Daily	Unlocks automatically after two months at $1,000 or more	1.5%

The fee is the same either way. Daily payouts are something you grow into rather than pay for. Every individual payout carries a small fixed cost from the processor, which is negligible once there is real volume moving and is not at lower volume — so everyone starts weekly, and once you have processed $1,000 or more in each of two consecutive months we move you to daily and email you. You never have to ask, and the 1.5% does not change.

Want it to go by text as well? That is the one add-on.

Messaging inside BooknBuddy is free and always will be. If you also want booking updates to reach clients as text messages — and to have them text you back, with replies landing in the same inbox — that runs on a real phone number, so it is sold as a monthly package on top of your plan.

Plan	Included each month	Canada	United States
Starter	500 texts + 50 photo texts	$29.99	$39.99
Standard	1,500 texts + 200 photo texts	$59.99	$79.99
Busy	4,000 texts + 600 photo texts	$99.99	$129.99

All prices in Canadian dollars, the same as your plan — wherever you are. Over your allowance it is $0.05 a text and $0.15 a photo text. Photo texts are counted separately because they genuinely cost about three times as much to send.

Why the US costs more. American mobile carriers require every business that sends texts to be registered with them first — it is called A2P 10DLC — and they charge a monthly fee for that registration plus a surcharge on every single message. Canadian carriers do neither. Sending the same thousand texts costs us roughly twice as much in the US, and the American plans reflect that rather than us pocketing the difference. That same registration is why a US number takes a couple of weeks to switch on.

Clients without a mobile number simply carry on getting app notifications. Anyone can reply STOP.
Keep your existing business number if it is a landline, or we give you a new one.

US businesses: American phone carriers have to approve every business that sends texts, and that takes about 15 days. We start it the day you sign up and tell you the moment it clears — and you are not charged until your texts can actually be sent. Canadian numbers are usually live the next business day.