UK pet daycare — capacity gating, vaccination compliance, mid-day photo prompt, owner billing.
01 · Capacity + booking
The day, gated by what the floor can hold.
Per-day capacity, per-temperament group, per-staff ratio. Owners book the slot that exists, not the one the front desk hopes exists. Built on Time To Pet or custom.
Per-day capacity model
Temperament group routing
Staff-ratio enforcement
Time To Pet-friendly
02 · Vaccination gating
No current jab, no booking. Quietly.
Vaccination status checked at booking, owner upload + vet-record import, pre-lapse reminders. The awkward day-of conversation goes away.
Owner-upload at booking
Vet-record import
Pre-lapse reminders
Hard-gate enforcement
03 · Mid-day photo prompt
The 1pm photo that earns the rebook.
Auto-prompt staff to send a photo at lunchtime, branded template, owner gets it on their phone with a one-tap rebook link. The signal that you actually care.
Auto-prompt staff at 1pm
Branded photo template
One-tap rebook link
Optional owner-portal feed
04 · Owner billing
Subscription + day-rate, on autopilot.
Monthly day-pass subscriptions, ad-hoc day rates, multi-pet discounts, late-pickup fees — all auto-billed via Stripe. Cash-flow that the operator can plan around.
Subscription day-passes
Ad-hoc day rates
Multi-pet discounts
Late-pickup auto-fee
05 · Pickup/dropoff window
Drop-offs from 7. Pickups till 7. Enforced.
Window booking with grace periods, late-fee triggers, parent-of-pet identity check, multi-owner authorisation flow. Operations stay calm at 6pm.
Window-based booking
Grace + late-fee triggers
Authorised-pickup list
Operator hand-off log
06 · BrainBase
Behaviour notes, SOPs, incident log — indexed.
Per-dog behaviour notes, group-mix SOPs, incident reporting, evacuation plans — searchable from the floor. New staff confident on day one.
Per-dog behaviour notes
Group-mix SOPs
Incident reporting
Evacuation + safety plans
Sample engagement
The 30-dog daycare that cut churn by a fifth.
30 dogs a day. Two staff. Owner admin chewing five hours a week.
A daycare ran on Time To Pet for booking but did capacity in spreadsheets, vaccination chase by text, and billing reconciliation Sunday evenings. Three-week build: capacity model wired to TTP, vaccination gating at booking, mid-day photo prompt to staff phones, Stripe-driven subscription billing. Six months in: owner admin from five hours to twenty minutes a week, churn from 32% to 25%, day-pass subscription adoption at 41% of regulars.
How we measure: Owner churn measured as 90-day-inactive owners / active owner base, baseline from prior 12 months; admin time self-reported by operator pre and post; subscription adoption from Stripe customer records.
−5 hrs/wkowner admin
−22%owner churn
41%on day-pass subscription
Builds for pets & vets
Use cases that fit.
Each is a tightly-scoped build, fixed price, owned by you.