Check-in doesn't become a line
Two clicks per dog keeps the lobby moving when the whole holiday rush arrives in the same fifteen minutes.
For boarding kennels
Boarding kennel software for the Saturday rush, not the back office.
A full house is a hundred small jobs repeated all day — booked, checked in, fed, logged, updated. BarkWhiz makes each one a few clicks instead of a dozen, so your team spends the day with the dogs, not the screen.
Watch a boarding day, start to finish
Book, check in, log care, send the update — the everyday jobs, captured in our own app. Each one a few clicks instead of a dozen.
Everything here is live in the product today — reservations, check-in/out, floor care logging, and AI-drafted updates your team reviews and sends. See all four flows in detail →
Why fewer clicks matters on a busy boarding Saturday
Nothing slips when it's full
One-tap logging records the feed, the meds, the incident as it happens — not from memory at the end of a long shift.
Updates still go out when you're slammed
The draft's already written, so the busiest day is still the day owners hear their dog is fine.
The Kennel Whizard sorts the run board
Every checked-in dog matched to a run that fits — size and weight, run and bank capacity, service tier — in one click. It suggests; you apply. How the Whizard works →
Balances settle before pickup
Owners pay deposits at booking and clear their balance in the portal, so a packed Sunday pickup isn't a line at the front desk.
Vaccines cleared before drop-off
Owners upload vaccine records ahead of the stay and expirations get flagged, so no one's chasing paperwork at the door when the lobby fills.
Waivers signed before drop-off
Send your boarding agreement or waiver ahead of the stay; owners sign it online from a link, and the signed copy sits on their record — no clipboard at the counter when the lobby's full.
First-timers meet the team first
Require a meet-and-greet before a new dog's first stay. Your team records the outcome, so an uncleared dog never turns up expecting a run on your busiest weekend.
Holidays are where boarding makes its year — see our holiday rush playbook.
Built by an operator
Made by someone who's run the kennel floor
"Ten-plus years running pet-care operations across two markets — checking in dogs at 6 a.m., chasing feeding notes that lived in someone's head, paying every month for software that recorded my reservations but never helped me run a full house.
So I'm building the system I wish I'd had on the floor — and getting it right with a handful of operators first."
Ryan Leach, MBA
Founder & Operator, Sit Means Sit Dallas & College Station
Boarding software questions, answered
It'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. Automated email and text reminders and follow-ups now send straight from BarkWhiz too, with AI-drafted updates still reviewed and sent by your team. Still on the roadmap: 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.
Founding facilities receive Ops + CRM for $249/month, locked for 24 months. After that, they retain a permanent 15% discount from the then-current list price.
The cost of doing nothing
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.
Stop leaking ~$52,800/yr
Become a Founding FacilityRun your boarding house on software built for the floor
Founding facilities receive Ops + CRM for $249/month, locked for 24 months. After that, they retain a permanent 15% discount from the then-current list price.
We reply within two business days—or your first month is free. No credit card required.
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