A full house of overnight guests means a hundred small jobs repeated all day — book the stay, check the dog in, log the 6 a.m. feeding, send the photo the owner is waiting on. BarkWhiz is built by a pet-care operator to make each one take a few clicks instead of a dozen, so your team spends the day with the dogs, not the screen.
Built around the work boarding actually repeats.
Legacy kennel software was built to record transactions — so every reservation, check-in, and care note becomes a trail of screens and tab jumps. BarkWhiz reframes the same jobs you already do for boarding around how few steps they should take. Everything described here is live in the product today.
From the first booking call to the last update before lights-out, here are the everyday boarding jobs your front desk and floor staff touch hundreds of times a week — and how BarkWhiz handles each one.
Take a boarding reservation with the owner, dog, and dates already in front of you — no tab-hopping to confirm a stay. A run-and-kennel map shows you what's open across the dates, so you book the right space the first time.
Drop-off and pick-up are the lobby crunch. Two-click check-in and check-out keep the line moving without losing the details that matter — feeding instructions, meds, and special notes ride along with the dog.
The morning feed, the noon medication, the scuffle in the yard — logged in one tap on a floor-friendly board, right where the work happens, not buried in a reporting screen. Every dog's care record stays current through a full house.
An owner who's away wants to know their dog is happy. BarkWhiz turns the day's logged activity into a friendly first draft — not a blank box. Your team reads it, tweaks it, and sends it. The human always decides what goes out.
Vaccination dates, vet contacts, feeding routines, behavior notes — every owner and dog has one record your whole team can see, so the second stay never starts from scratch and nothing lives in someone's head.
Role-based access across five roles keeps the floor view simple for kennel techs while owners and managers get the full picture — with tenant isolation if you run more than one location.
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A handful of saved clicks sounds like a detail until you multiply it by a full house. That's where boarding lives every weekend and every holiday.
Saturday morning is a wall of drop-offs at once. When each check-in is two clicks instead of a dozen, the lobby moves — even when the dogs and the owners all arrive in the same fifteen minutes.
A missed medication or an unlogged feeding is how a full house goes wrong. One-tap logging on the floor means care gets recorded as it happens — not remembered at the end of a long shift.
The day you're busiest is the day owners most want to hear their dog is fine. AI-drafted updates mean the message is already written — your team just reads, approves, and sends, instead of writing from scratch at closing.
"I've spent more than ten years running pet-care operations across two markets. I've checked in dogs at 6 a.m., chased down a feeding note that lived in someone's head, and paid every month for software that recorded my reservations but never helped me run a full house.
Boarding is unforgiving on a busy weekend — the details are everything, and the old tools made you click through screens to capture them. So I'm building the system I wish I'd had on the floor, and getting it right with a handful of operators before scaling it."
See how a boarding day in BarkWhiz stacks up against the kennel system you pay for now — an honest, operator-written comparison, not a hit piece.
Make the switchWe're taking only 10 founding facilities — each with founding pricing locked in for life and white-glove migration that moves your customers, dogs, and history for you.
Become a Founding FacilityIt's web-based — it runs in the browser on the front-desk computer, a tablet on the floor, or a phone, with nothing to install or maintain. Your data lives in the cloud, not on a machine in the back office.
Yes. White-glove migration is part of founding membership — we move your customers, dogs, and history over for you rather than handing you a spreadsheet and wishing you luck.
That's the design goal. The high-frequency boarding jobs — reservations, check-in and check-out, feeding and care logging — are built for far fewer clicks, on a floor-friendly view, and we onboard each founding facility by hand so your team is set up properly.
We're pre-launch and onboarding our first operators by hand. Live today: reservations and scheduling, check-in/out, floor care logging (feeding, meds, incidents, vaccines), customer and dog records, AI-drafted parent updates (your team reviews and sends), the staff workspace, Stripe-powered subscription billing, and the QuickBooks integration. Also live now, in early access with our first facilities: a branded customer portal — online booking, customer dashboards, self-service vaccine upload, and pay-your-balance-online — your own white-label public booking pages, loyalty and membership pricing honored automatically at booking, and Google reviews capture. Still on the roadmap: automatic outbound email/SMS reminders and campaigns that send on their own (today the AI drafts updates and your team sends them), dynamic pricing, and more integrations — and we still onboard every facility by hand rather than a self-serve sign-up. We'd rather be upfront than oversell. See the full roadmap.
Plans start around $199/mo for the operational core, and founding facilities lock in founding pricing for life. We'll walk you through the numbers on a short call with the founder — no demo gauntlet, no sales rep, no deck.
Empty runs midweek, regulars who drifted off, add-ons you never charged for — boarding revenue leaks quietly. Plug in your rough numbers to estimate what's slipping through.
Estimate based on your inputs and the assumptions above — not a guarantee of revenue uplift. BarkWhiz helps you stop leaking hidden revenue.
Don't have these numbers handy?
That's the whole problem — and it's not on you. Legacy kennel software records every booking and payment, then never adds it up: how many runs sat empty, which regulars quietly stopped coming. So these are an educated guess. BarkWhiz reads the data you already have and shows you the real number — with its work.
Stop leaking ~$52,800/yr
Become a Founding FacilityWe onboard our first operators by hand — set up around how your kennel actually runs a full weekend. Founding pricing locked in for life, white-glove migration included.
We reply within two business days—or your first month is free. No credit card, no demo gauntlet.
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