Dog Boarding for dog walkers
Real stays, check-in, care plans and a daily care log.
- Boarding runs as a real stay with check-in and check-out, not a coloured block on a calendar.
- A care plan travels with the dog and a daily care log records that feeding, medication and walks actually happened.
- Stays are priced per night, invoiced alongside your walks and spread across the days in your reports.
A boarding stay is not a booking, it is a responsibility that runs for days, and most software treats it as a coloured block on a calendar. PawLoop treats it as an operational stay: the dog checks in, the care plan sets out exactly what they need each day, the care log records that it happened, and the dog checks out with a full attendance history behind them.
Around that sits everything the business side needs. Per-night pricing, invoicing alongside your walks, revenue spread across the days the stay actually covers, and vaccination requirements checked against the dates of the stay. Owners can follow the care log from the client portal. Whether you board one regular a year or run a licensed home boarding setup, the stay looks after itself.
Key takeaways
What Dog Boarding does for your business
Stays that run themselves
Check-in and check-out are recorded with the time and who did it, building a full attendance history for every stay, the record you point to if an owner ever queries the dates.
A boarding overview, not just a calendar
Land on a dashboard that shows who's in the house right now, who's arriving or leaving today, and a needs-attention strip for care tasks still to do and stays that haven't been paid.
Care plans that travel with the dog
Each pet's care plan. Feeding, medication, exercise and routine. Initialises every new stay. If the pet's base plan changes, the stay is flagged as drifted so you can refresh it instead of relying on stale instructions.
A care log the owner can see
Daily tasks are generated for each stay and ticked off as you go, creating a day-by-day care history you can share with the owner when they collect, proof of every feed, walk and medication.
Priced, invoiced and reported
Per-night rates with per-client overrides, pulled into the same invoice as walks, with revenue spread across the days of the stay so your reports show what you actually earned each day.
Check-in, check-out and a real attendance record
When the dog arrives, you check them in; when they're collected, you check them out. Each action timestamped with who did it and written to your audit log. The stay's History tab keeps the full attendance record, so 'was Bella really collected on Sunday?' is a ten-second answer, not a scroll back through messages.
An overview that tells you what needs doing
The boarding dashboard leads with what matters today: a needs-attention strip counting dogs in the house, arrivals and departures today, care tasks still outstanding. Highlighted when they're overdue, and unpaid stays with the total value. Below that, rich cards for every dog currently boarding with their care progress, and upcoming stays grouped by arriving today, tomorrow, this week and later, flagged if a care plan is missing or a balance is outstanding. The calendar sits underneath for spotting gaps and booking new stays.
Care plans, versioned per stay
Build a structured care plan for each pet once. Feeding amounts and times, medication, exercise, sleep and routine notes, and every new stay initialises its own copy from it. Update the pet's base plan and any active stay is flagged as drifted, so you can review and refresh it rather than discovering mid-stay that you're working from last year's instructions.
A daily care log, ticked off as you go
Each stay's care plan generates its tasks day by day. Morning feed, medication, exercise, evening checks, and you tick them off as they happen, with the time and who completed them recorded. The result is a day-by-day care history for the whole stay: reassurance for you, and something genuinely impressive to show the owner at collection.
Money handled per night, reported per day
Set per-night boarding rates with per-client overrides, and mark stays paid as money arrives. Boarding pulls into the same invoice as the client's walks, and revenue is spread pro-rata across the days of the stay, so your reports show what you actually earned each day, not one lump on the checkout date. Walks during a stay are included in the stay rather than double-charged.
Dog Boarding questions, answered
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