Check them in.
Lose track of nobody.
Multi-night boarding with real lodging capacity, exact-time daycare availability, operational playgroups, feeding and medication tasks, and photo report cards. Built for operators running 30+ pets a day.
How It Works
Lodging, playgroups, check-in, report cards, one place.
Built around how a daycare and boarding floor actually runs. Not a calendar in disguise.
Book the stay. Fill the rooms, not the whiteboard.
Define your lodging once: suites, kennels, beds, cat condos, shared areas, each with a unit count, a per-unit capacity, and which pets it accepts. Every boarding reservation claims a compatible unit from check-in day to check-out day and bills per night. Housemates on the same reservation share a room; a dog that can't do group play gets a private spot. Pick-ups after your checkout cutoff add a night automatically.
- Multi-night stays, billed per night
- Rooms, kennels, beds & cat condos with real capacity
- Split stays when one room isn't free the whole time
- Late pick-up adds a night, extra charges at checkout
Pick-up after 11:00 AM cutoff · +1 night added
Real units, real nights. Shared rooms for housemates.
Build playgroups that actually mix.
Group dogs by size band, weight range, and play style. Small & shy, big & bouncy, senior & gentle, evaluation. Each playgroup gets its own planning limit and color, while the facility's on-site, group-care, and physical-space rules decide whether a booking fits. Boarders who include daytime care land in a group at check-in right alongside the daycare dogs, with spots you can hold back for them.
- Group by size, weight & play style
- Per-group planning limits & color
- Boarders join group play, with protected spots
- Bite, medical & vaccine alerts on every roster row
Large · 1-5 yr
Small · all ages
All sizes · 8+ yr
Medium · 2-7 yr
First-day dogs
Size band, weight range, play style. Limits that hold the line.
Check-in that catches everything.
Tap the pet in. Place them in a playgroup with live occupancy on screen. Log the leash, the harness, the blanket, the bag of food, with a quantity and a photo. Today's feeding slots and medication times are already on the stay from the pet's care schedule and whatever the owner added at booking. Capacity is re-checked at the door for the rest of the stay. Every detail lives on the stay, not on a clipboard you'll lose by 2 PM.
- Belongings with quantity & photo
- Feeding & medication plan carried onto the stay
- Playgroup placement with live occupancy
- Printable stay cards, day sheets & collar labels
½ cup Hill's Science Diet · owner's food
Carprofen 25mg · with food · through Thu
Playgroup, belongings, feeding, meds. One record per stay.
See the floor. Send the report.
Open the Schedule board. Expected, on site, ready for pickup, finished. Twenty-three pets in, six boarders on night three, three on meds at 2 PM. Feeding, medication, walks, and one-on-one play sit on the task board at the right hour, assigned to a staff member and checked off with a name and time. Then the day's photos, care notes, feeding and medication confirmations, and any incidents go out as one report card the owner opens by text or email.
- Live board of the whole floor, web and phone
- Task board with who did it and when
- Incidents logged with severity & photos
- Photo report cards by text, email or PDF
On site
23
Ready for pickup
6
Meds 2 PM
3
"Played hard with the big group. 4 photos, lunch eaten, 2 PM meds given, no incidents."
Live roster on top. Photo report card sent at pickup.
Sell the pass. Bank the cash.
Prepaid passes built in. 5, 10, or 20 daycare visits, scoped to one pet or the whole household, with the expiry you set. Units apply at checkout from the right balance, with a ledger of every use. Owners book online or in the parent app, pick their daycare days or boarding dates, add a bath or a walk, and pay the deposit. Vaccines, agreements, and evaluations gate the booking on the way in, and you decide whether it confirms instantly or waits for staff approval.
- Prepaid passes per pet or per household
- Units applied at checkout, every use on a ledger
- Online & app booking with add-ons and deposits
- Auto-confirm or staff approval, your call
5 Daycare Days
5 visits · 18 active
10 Daycare Days
10 visits · 24 active
20 Daycare Days
20 visits · 22 active
Household 10-Pack (2 pets)
10 visits · 11 active
Applied at checkout · full ledger, no manual math
Prepaid passes. Applied at checkout. Cash up front.
Key Features
Not a side feature.
A full daycare and boarding module.
Twelve things daycare and boarding operators actually need. All on, all included.
Multi-night boarding & lodging
One reservation from check-in day to check-out day, billed per night. Suites, kennels, beds, cat condos, and shared areas with unit counts, per-unit capacity, species and weight eligibility, same-day turnover, and optional split stays.
Facility & space capacity
Exact-time on-site and group-care limits for the facility, optional dog/cat/other limits, and compatible physical spaces. Pending and confirmed bookings consume the same capacity. Playgroup limits stay operational guidance rather than booking inventory.
Playgroup management
Optional cohorts by size band, weight range, and play style, each with a color and planning limit. Auto-matched by weight at booking, picked at check-in with live occupancy, and shown as day-load cards with bite, vaccine, and evaluation flags.
Check-in & check-out
Playgroup placement, belongings with quantity and photo, stay-plan adjustments, and a live capacity re-check at the door. Check-out surfaces balance owed, pass units, tip, report-card status, and unreturned belongings. Any day of the stay, early or late.
Feeding, medication & care tasks
Per-pet feeding and medication schedules with amounts, food source, doses, and course dates, merged into every stay. Each occurrence becomes a task at the right hour, assignable to staff and checked off with a name and time. Missed tasks raise an alert.
Add-ons during a stay
Walks, one-on-one play, baths, and grooms priced per occurrence with a cadence: once, daily, every day except check-in or check-out, last day, or selected dates. Add-ons that need a hand show up on the task board.
Report cards with photos
Photos with captions, care notes, feeding and medication confirmations, belongings, and incidents with severity in one page. Finalize and send by text or email as a reopenable link, or download the PDF. Daily for daycare, per stay for boarding.
Evaluations & eligibility
Evaluation as its own bookable service. Require a passed evaluation before any daycare or boarding service, enforced online, in the parent app, and on the phone. Staff score a behavior rubric, set play style, recommend a group, and can override with an audited note.
Prepaid passes & store credit
Visit passes for the services you choose, per pet or per household, with expiry. Units applied at checkout with a signed ledger of every use, refund, and adjustment. Store credit on the customer account sits beside them.
Online booking, deposits & policies
A public booking page and parent app for daycare days and boarding dates with add-ons. Deposits fixed or percentage, hold windows that release unpaid bookings, cancellation and reschedule windows, and auto-confirm or staff approval per location.
Vaccines & agreements
Required vaccines per species and required agreements. Online and app bookings are blocked until proof is on file, or allowed with proof due after booking. Staff and phone bookings send a one-tap request. Expiry reminders go out automatically.
Staff app, stay cards & labels
The same board, check-in, tasks, and report cards on the staff phone app. Print stay cards, day sheets, and collar labels from either. Multi-pet households book on one reservation and check out together on one sale.
Grooming, daycare, and boarding on one customer record, one calendar, one bill.
Why Talopet
One price. Full daycare and boarding module included.
Legacy kennel software: Boarding, daycare, and grooming sold as separate plans, SMS as an add-on, a payments markup, and no AI on the phone. Your bill grows every time you add a service line.
Spreadsheets and group texts: No capacity limits, no lodging map, no vaccine checks. By Wednesday, three staff members are working off different versions of the roster and someone's medication got skipped.
Talopet: Multi-night lodging, facility availability, playgroups, check-in, belongings, feeding, meds, add-ons, evaluations, report cards, passes, online booking with deposits, vaccine and agreement gating. All included. Grooming runs on the same platform.
FAQ
Common questions about daycare and boarding software.
What does pet daycare and boarding software do?
It runs the operational side of a daycare and boarding facility in one system. Exact-time facility and physical-space capacity, multi-night stays with nightly billing, optional playgroups, check-in and check-out with belongings, feeding and medication schedules, add-ons during a stay, evaluations, photo report cards, prepaid passes, online booking with deposits, and vaccine plus agreement gating, all alongside grooming on the same customer and pet records.
Does Talopet support multi-night boarding?
Yes. A boarding stay is one reservation covering check-in day to check-out day, billed per night. You define your lodging as space types (rooms, kennels, beds, shared areas, cat condos) with a unit count and a per-unit capacity, and every stay claims a compatible unit for its full length. If no single unit is free for the whole stay, Talopet can split the stay across units, which you can allow or disallow per location. Pick-ups after your checkout cutoff add a billable night automatically, and staff can add extra charges at checkout.
How do drop-off and pick-up windows work?
You set default check-in and check-out times for boarding and a suggested drop-off time for daycare, and choose whether customers may pick their own times. A daycare pick-up is suggested as drop-off plus the length of the daycare service booked, by closing time, and you can let customers who pick their times choose a pick-up up to three hours after closing. Customer bookings online, in the parent app, and through the AI receptionist are held to your posted hours for that day, with a boarding check-in judged against the check-in day and the check-out against the check-out day. Staff bookings are never constrained.
How does the Daycare + Boarding bundle handle capacity?
Daycare and boarding are included together in one care bundle. Facility setup separates pets on site, optional dog/cat/other and group-care limits, and physical spaces such as kennels, rooms, and beds. Every booking checks the exact pet, service, and interval against the limits it actually uses, and pending requests consume capacity the same way confirmed ones do. Playgroups remain optional operational cohorts with planning limits; they do not create bookable capacity.
What does the check-in and check-out flow capture?
At check-in, staff place the pet in a playgroup with live occupancy shown, adjust the stay plan if needed, and log belongings such as leash, harness, blanket, and food bag with quantities and photos. Capacity is re-checked at the door for the remaining stay. At check-out, the system surfaces balance owed, pass units to apply, a tip prompt, report-card status, and any belongings not yet returned. A boarding stay can be checked in, marked ready, and checked out on any day of the stay, including an early checkout.
How do feeding schedules, medications, and belongings work?
Each pet carries a default care schedule: feeding items with time slot, amount, food type, whether you or the owner supply the food, and notes; medication items with name, dose, course dates, and notes. Each stay merges that schedule with anything the owner supplied at booking and freezes it at acceptance. Feeding, medication, and add-on occurrences become tasks on the staff task board at the right hour, assignable to a staff member and checked off with who did it and when. Missed tasks raise an alert.
Can boarding dogs join daycare group play?
Yes. A boarding service can include shared daytime care, so boarders count against the same group-care capacity as daycare dogs and get a playgroup placement at check-in. You can reserve group-care spots for boarders and allow a set number of private boarders who skip group care entirely.
How do evaluations and temperament tests work?
An evaluation is its own bookable daycare service with a price and duration. Any daycare or boarding service can require a passed evaluation first; until the pet has one on record, online, app, and phone bookings for that service are refused and the customer is directed to book the evaluation instead. Staff finalize the evaluation against a behavior rubric, set play size and style, recommend a playgroup, and can override the requirement with an audited note.
What do report cards look like and how do owners get them?
The report card bundles photos with captions, care notes, feeding and medication confirmations, belongings, and any logged incidents into one polished page. Staff finalize it and send it by text or email as a link the owner can reopen, or download it as a PDF. Daycare gets one card per day; a boarding stay gets one card covering the whole stay, which staff can send at any point.
How do prepaid packages and billing work?
Sell prepaid passes such as 5, 10, or 20 daycare visits, scoped to one pet or the whole household, with an expiry window you set. Passes cover the specific daycare or boarding services you choose, and units are applied at checkout from the right balance with a full ledger of every use, refund, and adjustment. Store credit lives on the customer account alongside passes.
Does Talopet block bookings when vaccines or agreements are missing?
Yes. You define the required vaccines per species and the agreements customers must sign. Online and parent-app bookings are blocked until the proof is uploaded and the agreement signed, or you can allow proof to be uploaded after booking. Bookings entered by staff or taken by the AI receptionist send the customer a one-tap request to complete what is missing before the visit.
Can I board cats and small animals?
Yes. Lodging is species-agnostic. Space types declare which pets they accept (dogs, cats, other) and an optional weight range, so a cat condo bank and a small-animal room sit next to your dog kennels with their own capacity. On-site limits can be set per species.
How do deposits, cancellations, and no-shows work?
Each location sets a deposit policy: a fixed amount or a percentage of the quoted stay, required for online, phone-AI, or staff bookings independently, with a hold window after which an unpaid booking is released automatically. Cancellation and reschedule windows apply the same way whether the customer uses the booking link, the parent app, the phone, or calls the desk. No-shows are recorded on the stay, and cancellation fees and deposit handling for daycare and boarding are managed by staff at checkout.
Can the AI receptionist book daycare and boarding?
Yes. It plans daycare days and multi-night boarding stays against your real capacity and prices, adds add-ons, books an evaluation when one is required, and either confirms directly or creates a request for staff approval, whichever you choose per service line. It also books a groom inside an existing stay.
What does pricing look like, and how does daycare work with grooming?
Daycare and boarding are sold as one bundle at one monthly price per location. Unlimited Pet Care staff and unlimited groomers, no per-user fees, no per-pet fees. Grooming runs on the same platform, so customer records, pet profiles, vaccines, and agreements are shared, and a groom can be booked inside a boarding stay.
Works with everything else in Talopet.
Daycare and boarding is one module. Here's what else is included.
The whiteboard roster
is done.
Real lodging, real playgroups, clear facility limits, real check-in, real report cards. Daycare and boarding software built for operators who run the floor.