Separate capacity from boarding, recurring weekly bookings, half + full day pricing, daycare packages your loyal customers actually buy, and a one-screen checkout that takes the retail and the late-pickup fee in the same tap.
Daycare drop-offs on the left. Currently checked in down the middle. Pickups on the right. Boarding guests share the same screen because at 7am they're all walking through the same door. Counts at the top so you know the building is at the headcount it should be.
Run daycare on its own headcount, or sync it to your boarding suites so a busy boarding day automatically caps daycare too. Late-pickup fees fire themselves the moment the closing-time window slides shut — no awkward "I should have charged you" conversation at the door.
Every drop-off slot, every pickup slot, every increment, every day of the week — set per service. Standard mode for the kennel that runs the same hours every day, Advanced for the one with a Saturday cut-off and a Sunday "by appointment only" rule. Customers see what's bookable, you stop fielding the "can I drop off at 5:45?" calls.
10-day, 20-day, custom-day packages with their own pricing. Customers pre-purchase, the system tracks days remaining, and each booking auto-decrements the package balance. Promo codes layer on top — flat % or fixed dollar, optionally scoped to specific services and expiring on a date you choose.
Customers see the month at a glance, pick a day, and the drop-off and pickup time grids appear with whatever slots are still open. Any active daycare package shows right there with the remaining balance, group/multi-pet options surface inline, and the price estimate at the bottom updates as choices change. Minimum-notice rules ride along too — so what reaches your inbox is already bookable.
Most daycare revenue is the same dogs on the same days, every week. Pick the weekdays, pick the frequency (every week, every other week, whatever), choose to end after a number of bookings or on a specific date, and the system creates the whole series at once. Skip-holidays is a single checkbox. You see the count and the first/last dates before you confirm.
Open Doodle's daycare booking. The late drop-off as group setup is already on the bill. Scan a nail trim, a bag of CBD treats and a bully stick into the same invoice. Hit Use Daycare Pass (8 days left) to redeem one day off the package — balance due drops in real time. Then take payment via Square Terminal, Clover, cash, cheque or any custom method you've named. Receipt sent, books reconciled, on to the next pickup.
"Use Daycare Pass (8 days left)" sits right on the checkout — one tap, one day decremented, no separate package-management screen to hunt down.
Inventory scanner inline with the day care line items. Nail trim, treats, toys — straight onto the same invoice. No bouncing to a separate POS at pickup.
Square Terminal, Clover, cash, cheque, e-Transfer, or any custom method. Tip captured automatically when amount received exceeds the total.
Customers upload at registration. Expired vaccines block new bookings automatically — no awkward door conversations.
Signed once, stored forever. Versioned so you can prove what was agreed.
Same family, same day — one booking, one invoice, separate notes per pet. Multi-pet discount applied automatically.
Email + push notifications for confirmations, drop-off, pickup, and balance due. Late-pickup nudge before the fee fires.
Send a photo of the dog playing during the day. Pet parents love it. Reduces "is my dog okay?" calls.
Grooming customer drops off at 8 for a 10 o'clock appointment? Offer a daycare add-on right on the booking flow.
Every invoice, every payment, every customer — straight to your accounting. GST / HST / VAT codes handled.
Customers message from their app. You reply from yours. Photos attach. Currently in beta — available as an optional paid add-on.
Half the building closed for the floor refinishing on Tuesday? Drop the cap for that day only without touching the rest.
BooknBuddy covers all four. Owners book daycare days online or buy packages, each day has a capacity you set, with half-day and full-day options and per-date overrides, staff check dogs in and out for attendance, and owners get photo updates and messages in their app.
Yes. Sell 5, 10 or 20-day packages that deduct as dogs attend, and let regulars book the same days every week with holidays paused automatically.
Yes. Boarding, daycare, grooming, training and the other services share one calendar, one customer list and one checkout, so a boarding dog can add daycare days and the invoice stays whole.
CAD $39.99 a month flat, 30-day free trial, no per-booking fees.
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