Boarding kennel software for the morning rush, not the back office.
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.
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.
Your boarding day in BarkWhiz
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.
Book the stay in a few clicks
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.
Check in and out in two clicks
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.
Log feeding, meds and incidents in one tap
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.
AI-drafted pet-parent updates your team sends
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.
Owner and dog records that stay put
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.
The right people see the right things
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.
Why fewer clicks matters on a busy boarding Saturday
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.
Check-in doesn't become a line
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.
Nothing slips when it's full
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.
Updates still go out when you're slammed
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.
Built by an operator
Made by someone who's run the kennel floor
"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."
Ryan Leach, MBAFounder & Operator
Already running other software?
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.
We'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.
What is a slow season quietly costing your kennel?
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.
Leaking / month$4,400
Leaking / year$52,800
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.
Run your boarding house on software built for the floor
We 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.