Not a generic calendar with boarding bolted on. Built from the ground up for boarding and kennel operations.
Whether you are a home boarder or a 50-kennel operation, here is what makes the difference.
Stays, kennel availability, feeding and medication notes, vaccination checks and payments in one place. Retire the wall planner and the folder of vaccine certificates.
No per-seat fees, no module unlocks, no hidden costs. Weekend casuals and full-time kennel hands all get logins without changing what you pay.
Kennel-level capacity and 24-hour billing came from time inside real facilities, because stays never fitted hourly slots. Feeding routines, medication notes and vaccination status surface at check-in, so nothing rides on someone remembering.

Maple
Boarding guests leave with an exit bath, come back for daycare and book a groom between stays. Each service category is individually designed, then unified on one calendar and one customer record.
Maple
Overnight Stay
Archie
Daycare
Coco
Exit Bath
Bella
Full Groom
Scout
45 min Walk
Your client list, pets and vaccination records come across from your current software or spreadsheets. Simulate Pet Owner shows exactly what owners will see when they book, before you go live.
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From boutique kennels to large boarding facilities, manage stays and check-ins with ease.
For smaller kennels
AUD
Over -
Best For
Boarding facilities ready for online reservations, kennel capacity management, and automated communications.
“I'm double-booking kennels and losing track of stays. I need proper systems.”
For busier kennels
AUD
Appointments
Best For
Boarding facilities taking more reservations and sending more SMS each month than Pro includes. Every feature, with more room.
“Peak season fills every kennel. We need room for the reservations and the reminders that go with them.”
For large facilities
AUD
Over -
Best For
High-volume boarding operations with multiple staff, large kennel capacity, and premium service expectations.
“We run a 50-kennel operation. We need enterprise reliability and dedicated support.”
Included on every plan
Every plan has every feature. Pick by how busy you are, and change any month.
Configure tiered daily rates, automatic multi-pet discounts, and fair 24-hour billing. Weekend, public holiday and peak-period rates apply per night. See dynamic pricing.
Better rates unlock for ALL days
Fair pricing for actual care time
Automatic household savings
Fair partial-day pricing
Configure all pricing in Services → Pricing & Payments. Weekend, public holiday and peak-period rates apply per night on dynamic pricing.
Sunshine Coast boarding facilities need visibility into occupancy trends, reliable recurring bookings, and payment systems that recover failed charges automatically.
Set up recurring stay patterns for monthly or seasonal guests. Automate reminders and build predictable revenue.
Revenue trends, occupancy rates, seasonal demand, and retention. Know which kennels drive the most revenue.
An email before a card expires. If a charge declines, the customer is texted to update the card and retry, and you can retry or send a payment link.
Manage declined and overdue payments. Retry charges for clients with a card on file, or follow up with those who need to update their payment details.
Bulk Payment Mode
$740.00 selectedCard on File
2Kiwi
Full Groom
Tue 7 Jul • 9:30 - 11:00 AM
Maple
Bath & Tidy
Wed 8 Jul • 1:00 - 2:00 PM
No Card on File
1Generic booking tools treat boarding like an appointment. Sunshine Coast facilities need software that understands kennel capacity, multi-day stays, and 24-hour billing.
AUD pricing, invoices with your ABN, and no converting from USD. Clean, professional invoices every time.
Australian-founded and operated, with support in AEST and AEDT business hours, not when a US team wakes up on Monday.
Automated SMS reminders from an Australian number. Keep boarding parents informed before, during, and after stays.
A free, SEO-optimised microsite with your services, pricing, and online booking. Branded with your colours.
Mobile Number
Clean step-by-step wizard guides staff through pet selection, timing, and review. Pick exact check-in and check-out dates and times with a single click.
Require Prerequisite Service
Customers must meet another service before they can book this one
How they combine
Has completed any
One of the selected services is enough.
Has completed all
Every selected service must have been completed.
Require an initial assessment before new pets can book boarding. Require a current vaccination certificate for online bookings. Set weight limits per kennel size. Gate access without blocking it.
See exactly how the total is calculated: 24-hour periods, partial days, per-pet rates. Override the total if needed for special arrangements.
Petboost bills per 24-hour period, not per calendar night. Longer stays unlock better daily rates.
Kiwi’s Appointment
Full Groom · 9:30 - 10:30 AM · $115.00 · Mia
Timeline view shows check-in and check-out at a glance. Pet cards, customer info, payment on file, resource assignment, and care notes all visible without scrolling.
Charge saved cards, send SMS payment links, accept bank transfers, cash, or external terminals. Per-pet line items show exactly what is being charged.
Boarding spaces today
Each boarding space has its own capacity: how many pets it can hold at once. The system tracks assignments automatically. No spreadsheets needed.
Required vaccinations tracked per pet. Expiry alerts before they lapse. Online bookings need a current certificate, and your team sees No Vax or Expired on the appointment.
Petprint
Choose which services are included and how credits are allocated
Multi-service Package
This package includes multiple service types. Pet owners can choose which service to book each time they redeem a credit.
Credit Allocation
Shared pool
All services share one pool of credits
Per service
Each service gets its own capped credits
Pools
Each pool has a balance. A pool holds one or more services
Credits Per Service
Overnight Stay
Daycare Day
Exit Bath
Total credits in this package: 15
Bundle nights, daycare days and an exit bath into one prepaid package for your regulars, set how many of each, and owners redeem them at their own pace.
Set a rate on any public holiday, any weekday, or a date range such as the school holidays, as a percentage or a flat amount, on the services you choose.
Add a day of the week rate
Charge more on the same days every week, like Saturday and Sunday.
Name and services
Name*
Customers see this name on their booking.
Charge it on*
Which days
Repeat every week on*
How much
Extra charge*
Stays are charged for each night.
Show this rate on my booking page
Customers always see it when they pick a date, either way.
These aren't trivial feature differences. They're architectural advantages that solve real customer pain points.
Automate as much or as little as you want, from booking to payment. With customers booking for themselves, day or night, the admin looks after itself and your front desk stays calm. Customers book, confirm, pay, and get reminded without a single phone call.
Two modes for different workflows. Magic Availability Check handles availability-checked bookings with confidence. Quick Create gives you direct control to schedule without restrictions.
Get paid automatically with Auto-pay invoices. Built-in invoices branded with your logo, colours & ABN. Stripe Bank Feeds carry card payments into Xero for your bookkeeper to reconcile. We use Stripe under the hood to securely manage all payment processing.
Customers buy 10-walk bundles at 3am and redeem credits as they book. Lock in prepaid revenue.
Set precise limits for every kennel, play area, grooming station, and van, and online bookings never go past them.
Purpose-built for dog trainers. Not recurring appointments pretending to be courses.
Dozens of automated insights analyse your revenue, team, services, customers, and geography. Period-over-period comparisons, forecasting, and ready-to-use email templates.
Design Principle
Not mobile-friendly. Mobile-native. 100% feature parity across desktop, tablet, and phone. We even wrote custom drag-and-drop code for iPad.
When your team adds customer-facing notes or photos to a visit, the pet owner can open a visual report card with them, plus a gentle nudge to rebook and leave a Google review.


Dave
at Cosy Paws Boarding

Monty loved their time at Cosy Paws Boarding. Book their next weekend stay
Pet owners are prompted to leave a Google review, right when they feel most connected to your business.
How was Monty's experience with Cosy Paws Boarding?
Report cards are included on every Petboost plan. Notes, photos, rebook prompts and a Google review prompt, built from what your team already records. Texting a card needs Communications Booster or Enterprise.
Trusted Industry Infrastructure
Powering businesses Australia-wide big & small
300+
pet businesses
500,000+
bookings processed
9
specialised business types
Shown at a regional level. Exact locations and counts are never disclosed.
Pet owners are relieved and grateful to have their pet home. Ask every family for a review right after pick-up, with a personalised request that mentions their pet and the care they received.
A quick Google review helps Hound Health Bondi and other pet owners find great care.
Leave a Google ReviewA suggested review will be copied to your clipboard
Pro tip: Pick-up is the moment a boarding family trusts you most. Ask every one of them for a review right then.
Plenty of boarding facilities also run daycare, grooming or training. Petboost handles every service type in one system, so a guest's stay and anything booked during it sit on one calendar and one profile, with no duplicate data entry. Add a daycare room or a grooming table later without changing software.
Built for multi-service facilities
When a boarding guest also needs a groom during their stay, you book it inside the stay: it sits on the same calendar and the same customer profile, as its own appointment. Your team sees everything in one place.
See how multi-service businesses use PetboostHonest, side-by-side comparisons to help you choose the right pet boarding software for your Sunshine Coast facility.
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Compare featuresQueensland stays on eastern standard time all year, so from October to April the Sunshine Coast is an hour behind Sydney and Melbourne.
Sunshine Coast Council covers most of the coast, and our council directory found no animal business permit on its own pages. Of its neighbours, Noosa has none, so check the council your premises sits in. Queensland has no state licence for boarding, so council rules and the Animal Care and Protection Act's duty of care are what apply.
Open the permits mapWhich approval pathway your premises is on, and how to find out before you sign a lease.
Read the guideNational median $43.50 across 26 Australian boarding kennels. A city figure needs five local prices, and the index holds fewer for the Sunshine Coast.
See the price index