Daycare is the same jobs, over and over, at volume: standing bookings, a wall of arrivals at open, care logged all day, and a parent who wants to know how their dog is doing. BarkWhiz was built by a pet-care operator to make each of those a few taps instead of a few screens — so a packed Saturday runs off the floor, not off a spreadsheet.
Same capabilities the rest of the platform runs on — reframed for a high-volume daycare floor. Everything here is live in BarkWhiz today.
Most daycare dogs come on the same days every week. Set recurring reservations once and they hold their spot — and you see how full each day is at a glance, so you know when there's room and when you're booked solid.
Open is a line of leashes; close is everyone at once. Check a dog in or out in a couple of taps, with feeding notes, meds, and special instructions riding along — so the desk keeps moving and nothing important gets lost in the crowd.
Feeding, meds, potty breaks, and incidents get logged where the work happens — a single tap on a floor-friendly board, not a buried reporting screen your staff has to walk away from the dogs to find.
The day's logged activity becomes a friendly first draft of a parent update — not a blank box at 5 p.m. A team member reads it, adjusts it, and sends. The human always decides what goes out; the AI just gets it 90% written.
Vaccination status, behavior flags, who's allowed to pick up, what bowl is whose — one record per dog and owner, in front of whoever's at the desk. No sticky notes, no “ask the closer,” no detail living in one person's head.
Recurring daycare adds up to a lot of small charges. Subscriptions and billing run through Stripe so the money side keeps pace with the booking side — without re-keying the same regulars every week.
Boarding might turn a kennel a few times a week. Daycare runs the same handful of jobs dozens of times a day, every day. That repetition is exactly why a few saved clicks stops being a detail.
Forty dogs in and forty dogs out is eighty trips through check-in alone — before a single care note. Legacy kennel systems were built to record transactions, so each of those is a trail of screens. Shave a few clicks off a job your team repeats all day and it turns into real hours back on the floor.
See the click counts in real screensThe minutes you save aren't spread evenly — they land at open and at close, exactly when the desk is slammed and the dogs need watching. Fewer steps per dog means staff heads stay up and the line keeps moving when it matters most.
Estimate the hours back
“I've run pet-care operations across multiple locations for more than ten years, and I've stood at the desk when the door opens and twenty dogs arrive in fifteen minutes. The software I paid for every month recorded all of it and helped with none of it.
Daycare especially punishes friction — you're doing the same things hundreds of times a week, so every extra click is a tax you pay all day long. So I'm building the system I wanted on those mornings: fast where it's repetitive, and honest about what it does.”
Yes. Standing daycare reservations are the bread and butter, so you set them once and they hold their spot — and you can see how full any given day is at a glance instead of counting heads in your head.
BarkWhiz turns the day's logged activity into an AI-drafted update, and a team member reviews it and sends it. A human is always in the loop — the AI writes the first version, your staff decides what actually goes out. A self-serve parent portal and automatic outbound delivery are in active development; today the draft-and-review flow is what's live.
That's the whole design goal. Check-in and check-out are built for a couple of taps with the dog's notes, meds, and pickup details riding along — because the morning rush is where slow software hurts most. See it run in real screens.
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. More on making the switch.
Live today: reservations and scheduling, check-in/out, floor care logging, customer and dog records, AI-drafted parent updates (human reviews and sends), staff workspace, and Stripe billing. The QuickBooks integration is also live. In active development: a self-serve customer portal, charging clients directly, loyalty and memberships, automatic outbound email/SMS, and more integrations. We'd rather be upfront than oversell. See the full roadmap.
Daycare is high-volume and repetitive — the same handful of tasks, hundreds of times a week. A few clicks saved on each one adds up fast. Estimate the time you'd win back.
Pick your size, or drag to your own weekly volumes. Small · Medium · Large daycare
Estimate from your weekly volumes and our target legacy-vs-BarkWhiz click reductions (illustrative, not yet independently measured), at the seconds-per-click you set — not a guarantee. AI-drafted updates are approximated as ~7 fewer clicks.
Your current software can't tell you any of this.
That's the gap. Legacy software makes your team click through every task, then never counts the clicks — or the hours lost to busywork. The waste is real, but it stays invisible, so nothing ever improves. BarkWhiz cuts the routine work down and shows you the time you're winning back — not just the tasks you finished.
We're onboarding our first operators by hand, with founding pricing locked in for life and white-glove migration. See whether BarkWhiz fits the way your daycare actually runs at open.
