UK pet boarding + kennels + cattery — capacity, vaccination compliance, dietary + medication, daily updates.
01 · Booking + capacity gating
Stays that fit the kennel, not the hope.
Per-kennel and per-cattery-pen capacity, multi-pet bookings (same family, same pen), peak-season pricing, deposit on confirmation. The August-bank-holiday over-book disappears.
Per-kennel capacity
Multi-pet pen logic
Peak-season pricing
Deposit on confirmation
02 · Vaccination + medication compliance
Up-to-date jabs, kennel cough on file.
Vaccination + kennel-cough gating at booking, medication schedule per pet (dose, time, route), staff sign-off log. Compliance you can hand to the licensing inspector.
Vaccination + kennel-cough gate
Per-pet medication schedule
Dose + time sign-off log
Inspector-ready audit trail
03 · Dietary + walks scheduling
Bella's chicken-and-rice. Two walks. On the rota.
Per-pet dietary plan, walk frequency, exercise group, rota assigned to staff. The handover sheet that used to be a clipboard, now on a phone.
Per-pet dietary plan
Walk frequency + group
Staff rota assignment
Handover-sheet replacement
04 · Daily owner updates
One photo, one status, every evening.
Auto-prompt staff for an evening photo + status note per pet, sent to the owner on holiday. The thing that turns a one-time stay into a return customer.
Daily auto-prompt
Photo + status per pet
Owner-portal feed
On-holiday SMS / WhatsApp
05 · Insurance
Cover, claims, incident log — on rails.
Boarding insurance integration, incident reporting flow, vet-emergency authorisation on file, claim packs ready when needed. The ugly day handled, calmly.
Animal Welfare licensing requirements, evacuation plans, kennel-cough protocols, new-starter training — searchable from the floor. Compliance day one.
Licensing requirements
Evacuation + safety plans
Kennel-cough protocols
New-starter training
Sample engagement
The 24-kennel facility where 4 in 5 owners came back.
24 kennels. 6-pen cattery. Return-customer rate stuck at 67%.
A licensed boarding facility ran on email + spreadsheet for bookings, paper logs for medication, and ad-hoc owner updates. Returns were OK in winter, ugly in August. Three-week build: capacity-gated booking, vaccination + medication compliance log, daily auto-prompted owner update with photo, deposit-on-confirmation flow. Six months in: return-customer rate from 67% to 81%, peak-season over-book down to zero, two hours back per evening.
How we measure: Return-customer rate = owners with two or more stays in trailing 18 months / total active owners (n = 184 pre-build, 211 post-build); baseline from booking-software exports.
67% → 81%return-customer rate
0peak-season over-books
2 hrssaved each evening
Builds for pets & vets
Use cases that fit.
Each is a tightly-scoped build, fixed price, owned by you.