Dog boarding software that runs the whole stay, not just the booking

Pick the client and the dogs, set the drop-off and collection dates, confirm pricing and add any stay notes, and the stay appears across every day it covers on the calendar, not as a single confusing event on day one.

Pricing is per night in £, set per boarding type and adjustable per client if you've agreed a different rate with a long-standing family. Day care bookings work the same way, priced by the hour if that's how you run it.

• Book overnight stays or day care by date range
• Per-night pricing in GBP with per-client overrides
• Extra-pet rates and daily price caps applied automatically
• Stays span every covered day on the same calendar as your walks

Land on boarding and the answer to "what do I need to do today?" is already there: who's in the house right now, who's arriving or leaving today, care tasks still outstanding. Highlighted the moment they're overdue, and stays that haven't been paid, with the total outstanding.

Because boarding sits on the same calendar as walks, a half-term week with three dogs in the house is obvious at a glance, and a boarding dog can join a walk during their stay without being charged twice.

When the dog arrives you check them in; when they're collected you check them out. Each action timestamped with who did it and kept on the stay's history. Made a mistake or plans changed? You can undo either action.

That attendance record is your answer if an owner ever queries the dates or a council inspector asks how you track the animals in your care: ten seconds, not a scroll back through messages.

Build a structured care plan for each dog once. Feeding, medication, exercise and routine, and every new stay starts from it. If the dog's plan changes, the stay is flagged so you can refresh it instead of working from stale instructions.

Each day of the stay generates its care tasks, and you tick them off as you go. The result is a day-by-day care history you can hand to the owner at collection, proof of every feed, walk and medication.

• One base care plan per pet, reused by every stay
• Daily tasks generated automatically for each day of the stay
• Overdue tasks highlighted on the boarding dashboard
• Plan changes mid-stay flagged so nothing runs on stale instructions
• Day-by-day care history to share with the owner at collection

Overnight boarding means a dog in your home, possibly with other dogs and cats, so the meet & greet matters more than ever. PawLoop's meet & greet pipeline tracks every enquiry and records a structured assessment per pet: behaviour, walking, and boarding-specific criteria like house training, being left alone, crate training and compatibility with other animals.

Record the outcome. Approved, approved with restrictions, further assessment or not suitable, and restrictions like "not suitable for boarding" follow the pet, warning anyone who tries to book them in later. Approve the lead and the client and pet records create themselves in one click.

Share your private onboarding link and the owner fills in their own contact details, address, vet, emergency contact and everything about each dog. You get an email the moment it lands and onboard them in one click.

No typing someone else's phone number wrong, and nothing is created in your account until you approve it.

Completed stays flow into the same invoicing and payments flow as walks. Generate one branded invoice per client covering both, send it, and mark it paid. Every linked booking updates with it. Invoices and records sit neatly alongside your Making Tax Digital workflow.

Boarding revenue is spread across the days of the stay in your reports, so a five-night stay shows as five days of income. What you actually earned, when you earned it, rather than one lump on the checkout date.

• Per-night pricing worked out automatically
• One invoice covering walks and boarding together
• Pro-rata daily revenue in your reports
• Clear paid, unpaid and waived status on every stay

Home boarding in England needs a licence from your local council under the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) Regulations 2018, and owners increasingly ask to see it. Keep the licence, your insurance certificate and your boarding contract in the document hub and share them with a client when they ask.

Rules and fees vary by local authority and differ in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, check your own council's requirements.