Choosing booking software is hard when every company prices it differently. So we took twelve systems and priced each one for the same small daycare: you, one member of staff and about fifteen dogs a day. Every figure comes from the company's own website, read on 25 October 2026.
For a daycare of two, most UK systems cost between £29 and £64 a month. The bigger differences are what each one takes from your payments, and whether it can run everything you offer, from daycare to sleepovers, grooming and walks, in one place.
What a small daycare pays a month
What each one takes from your payments
When an owner pays by card, the card company takes its fee whichever software you use. Some systems take their own fee as well, either on top or as one combined charge.
Genera takes nothing from your payments. Owners pay into your own Stripe or GoCardless account, and the only fee is the card company's.
The UK systems
Barclo, £29 a month
Barclo is built in Kent and charges one price however many people you take on. It counts your regular dogs first when it fills a day, keeps their weekly places for them and sends owners report cards with photos. The same £29 also covers walking, grooming and boarding.
My Pet Walker, £39.99 a month
My Pet Walker covers walkers, daycares, kennels and boarders, and says it has handled more than three million bookings. It handles recurring bookings, vaccination reminders, late cancellation charges and owner chat. The price rises with each person who logs in, and the plan it suggests for daycares is £69.99 for four users.
Pet Sitter Plus, £50 a month
Pet Sitter Plus has been going since 2009, built mainly for sitters and walkers, and day care teams use it too. It is strong on staff, with schedules, GPS check in and out, key management, and staff pay and tips worked out for you. You pay for each member of staff who worked that month.
Collar, £49 a month
Collar is a UK app covering daycare, boarding, grooming, training and walking. Owners can chat with you in its app on every plan. Memberships and routing come with the £199 plan.
KennelBooker, £52.99 a month plus VAT
KennelBooker started with boarding kennels and catteries, and one plan now covers daycare too. It is good with rooms and kennels, keeps waitlists and links to Xero and QuickBooks. Prices are shown before VAT, and each plan has a set number of daycare spaces.
PackPlan, £14.99 a month for walkers
PackPlan is built by a dog walker for dog walkers, and says plainly that it is not for daycare centres. It gives walkers a stop by stop driving list and head counts for each walk.
The North American systems
Revelation Pets, £62 a month
Revelation Pets is part of the Gingr family and prices in pounds as well as dollars. It covers daycare, boarding, catteries, grooming and training, with online booking, booking reminders and vaccine tracking. Daycare starts on its Gold plan.
BusyPaws, £35 a month
BusyPaws shows the same price in pounds and dollars, with support on North American hours. It has waitlists, packages and an owner app on iPhone and Android. Its card rates are set in dollars, and your own name on the app comes with the top plan.
Time To Pet, $79 a month
Time To Pet is run from Texas and built for walkers and sitters first. It suits walking and sitting teams, with a client app and messaging. The bill is in dollars.
Gingr, $169 a month
Gingr is run from Atlanta and built for larger daycare and boarding buildings. It suits sites with several rooms and a bigger team, with an owner app and portal. The bill is in dollars.
MoeGo
MoeGo is built for groomers first, and gives daycare prices on a demo call.
And Genera, from £50 a month
We have been shaping Genera in our own daycare, Duncan's Dog Co, since 2011. It kept the daycare running smoothly through planning battles and everything else the years have thrown at us. Now we have opened it up, so other daycares get the same system. The businesses using it have become a network, and each one has helped shape Genera, so it now fits all kinds of daycares and the way each one works.
Daily limits. Set each day's limit to your licensed number. Once a day is full, new requests go on a waitlist for you to approve, and regulars keep their weekly days without being rebooked.
Your own app. Owners book and pay in a portal with your logo and colours, not ours.
No fees on payments. Owners pay by card or Direct Debit straight into your own Stripe or GoCardless account, and it syncs with Xero or QuickBooks.
Pricing. £50 for you and one member of staff, £75 for up to five of you with assessments and report cards, and £99 with no limit, adding routes, a driver app and owner messaging. The rota is on every plan.
Regular updates. We have made 140 improvements since June, 25 of them so far this October, all listed on our What's New page.
Help to get started. You get a WhatsApp group with us, we help bring your owners across and set up your services, and the 30 day trial has every feature switched on.
So which one?
Most dog businesses do more than one thing. A daycare takes sleepovers in the summer, a walker starts a puppy class, a groomer adds a day of daycare. That is where Genera is strongest. It puts all of it on one calendar and one invoice, with each service set up the way you work.
Daycare. Set each day's limit to your licensed number, keep regulars on their weekly days and raise invoices from the bookings you took.
Sleepovers and boarding. Nights have their own prices and their own limit, on the same calendar as your days.
Grooming. Give each groom its own set times and decide which bookings you approve first.
Walks, collections and drop offs. Walks are booked like any other service, and the £99 plan adds routes and a driver app.
Classes and swims. Add them as services with their own price and places, at no extra cost.
Whichever system you choose, compare what it takes from your payments as well as the monthly price.
Walk dogs as well? See eleven dog walking apps compared. Prices change, so check each company's own pricing page before you decide. We have also written side by side pages for Pet Sitter Plus, Collar, Gingr and Time To Pet. We have also compared eleven walking apps, fifteen kennel systems and fifteen grooming apps.
Questions people ask
What is the best dog daycare software in the UK?
There is no single best one, because daycares work in different ways. For a daycare of two, most UK systems cost between £29 and £64 a month, so compare what each one takes from your payments, whether it bills in pounds and whether it handles everything you offer. Genera is £50 a month, takes nothing from your payments and puts daycare, sleepovers, grooming, walks and classes on one calendar.
Which daycare software takes no fee from card payments?
Of the twelve, Genera and KennelBooker take nothing on top of the card company's fee, and Barclo lists no fee. Collar and My Pet Walker charge their own combined fee, and Pet Sitter Plus adds 0.4% on top.
Which daycare systems bill in pounds?
Barclo, BusyPaws, My Pet Walker, Collar, Genera, Pet Sitter Plus, Revelation Pets and KennelBooker all show prices in pounds. Time To Pet and Gingr bill in dollars.
Can one system handle daycare, boarding and grooming?
Yes. Genera, Barclo, Collar, Revelation Pets and KennelBooker all cover more than one service, so check how each one prices the extra services. Genera's plans are set by how many people log in, so adding a service costs nothing extra.
Try it with your own dogs. Start your 30 day free trial with every feature switched on, or get in touch and we will show you round.
