Built by a daycare, for dog daycares

Dog daycare software built inside a licensed daycare

The number on your licence, the number booked in, and how many people are on the floor. Genera keeps those three in agreement without anyone counting in their head.

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30 days free with everything unlocked. No card to start, no contract.

Today
18

Dogs in. 20 on the licence.

Paid
£1,240

Invoiced from bookings.

Full
2

Waitlisted for Thursday.

Businesses already on board

Duncan's Dog CoDuncan's Dog CoThe Big BowowskiThe Big BowowskiWoof Whistle WalkWoof Whistle WalkTiny Tails North WestTiny Tails North WestPickles Doggy DaycarePickles Doggy DaycareThe Pet Collective WalkiesThe Pet Collective WalkiesPaws in a PicklePaws in a PicklePaw Prints BasallPaw Prints BasallSnout & AboutSnout & AboutThe Pawsome Poochie ClubThe Pawsome Poochie ClubCotswold Canine ClubCotswold Canine ClubPrecious Laws LeicesterPrecious Laws LeicesterDuncan's Dog CoDuncan's Dog CoThe Big BowowskiThe Big BowowskiWoof Whistle WalkWoof Whistle WalkTiny Tails North WestTiny Tails North WestPickles Doggy DaycarePickles Doggy DaycareThe Pet Collective WalkiesThe Pet Collective WalkiesPaws in a PicklePaws in a PicklePaw Prints BasallPaw Prints BasallSnout & AboutSnout & AboutThe Pawsome Poochie ClubThe Pawsome Poochie ClubCotswold Canine ClubCotswold Canine ClubPrecious Laws LeicesterPrecious Laws Leicester
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In one paragraph

Genera is UK dog daycare software, built inside a licensed daycare. Owners request their days from an app under your own name, every request lands in one queue, and each service holds a limit you can set to the number on your licence. The month then invoices itself from the days you took.

Why dog daycares switch

Daily capacity against your licensed number, who is in today on one screen, assessments and report cards, and daycare billing that raises itself.

Owner booking portalEvery plan

Owners book their daycare days from your own app.

Your portal opens from the owner's home screen with your logo and your colour. They request days, set a regular weekly pattern and pay, and every request still comes back to you.

  • Your logo, name and brand colour, set once
  • Day requests and recurring weekly patterns
  • No app store, nothing for you to build
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What you get for dog daycares

  • A daily cap set to your licensed number

    Once a day hits its limit it shows as full, and the next request arrives as a waitlist request for you to approve. Owners are told the date is full, never how close to full you run.

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  • Who is in today, on one screen

    A single-day summary with stat cards per service, then every dog, owner, collection and drop-off in one list, plus day notes for the team. It is the screen your staff work from all day.

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  • Trial days scored on a phone

    Templates for first days, temperament, behaviour and health, scored on a phone with the dog in front of you, sent as a branded report card instead of a vague text at pick-up. From Grow.

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  • A month of daycare, invoiced in one run

    Charges come off the days you actually took. Raise every owner's invoice in one go, collect by Direct Debit through GoCardless or card through Stripe, and see who has opened, who has paid and what is owed. Xero kept in step.

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  • Memberships, tiers and a weekend rate

    Sell a set number of days a month as a membership, price by tier, and charge a different rate on Saturdays and Sundays or on the bank holidays you list. Loyalty discounts sit under the tier price.

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  • A heatmap of your busy and quiet days

    A density view of bookings across the month makes the quiet Fridays obvious, which is what you need before you discount a day or put a member of staff on it.

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  • Vaccination dates an inspector can see

    Every dog's vet, vaccination dates, feeding notes and emergency contacts in one profile, with a Vaccinations report of what is due and late notices for the ones that lapse.

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  • A rota, even for a team of two

    Daily and weekly rota with staffed hours, your peak cover and the thinnest hour of the day, plus holiday and sick tracking. In every plan, because a one-person daycare still has to roster itself.

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  • The Dog Bus, if you run one

    Morning and evening rounds with an optimised stop order, a driver portal with one-tap check-offs and live tracking. On Thrive, and invisible if owners bring their own dogs.

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Every one of these has a screen you can look at on the features page.

How Genera compares

Honest, feature by feature, against the systems dog daycares in the UK are usually moving from.

Three licence conditions the software carries for you

Your licence puts a number of dogs on the day, wants a completed vaccination course two weeks before a first day, and wants each dog's vet on file. The cap, the pet record and the owner's own app cover those three. The rest is the building and the people.

Every condition, with the sources

In their own words

Don't just take our word for it.

From the people running the yard, the vans and the diary every day.

“This is stopping us sitting tearing our hair out for hours on end… at 3:00 in the morning doing invoices… The less time that I spend crying behind my laptop and the more time I spend in the field…”

Ceara

The Big Bowowski

“If I could give 100 stars I would. Genera is an absolute game changer. We were lucky enough to be part of the founding 100 businesses - from the get go we knew it was something special. It’s changed the way we operate as a business - all for the better. Changes can be scary to start with, but this platform has definitely been worth it. It has saved us hours and hours (AND HOURS!) of time wasted on admin jobs such as invoicing, finding vital customer information, messaging customers, broadcasting a message to all customers or certain groups in one go, reminding customers when their vaccinations are due (licence requirements), logging staff holiday, logging dogs holiday, a shared diary across all team members that’s accessible at all times,”

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Amber

Owner, Precious Paws Leicester

Simple pricing

One subscription. From £50 a month.

30 days free with everything unlocked and no card. No setup fee, no contract, nothing per dog or per booking.

  • Starter£50/month

    You, one other pair of hands, and a diary that finally lives somewhere.

  • Grow£75/month

    A small team on a rota, and someone asking how the month actually went.

  • Thrive£99/month

    Dog Buses on the road and more owners than you can text back.

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Questions dog daycares ask

What is the best dog daycare software in the UK?
The honest answer is that it depends on whether you need routing and Direct Debit. Genera is built in England for UK daycares: it bills in pounds, collects by Direct Debit through GoCardless, reconciles to Xero, and ties your daily booking limit to your licensed number. It was built to run Duncan's Dog Co, a licensed daycare in Surrey, and starts at £50 a month with 30 days free.
Can dog daycare software stop me going over my licensed number of dogs?
Yes. Set a maximum number of bookings per day on each service. Once a day reaches that limit it shows as full on every calendar and new requests arrive as waitlist requests for you to approve rather than being confirmed automatically.
Does Genera work for a one-person dog daycare?
Yes. The Starter plan at £50 a month covers you plus one other login, and bookings, invoicing, pet records, the branded owner app and the rota are all in it. Nothing is priced per dog.
Can owners book daycare days themselves?
Yes. Owners request days from a portal under your name and logo, including recurring weekly or fortnightly patterns. You approve each request, or set a service to auto-accept so regulars go straight into the diary.
How much does dog daycare software cost?
Genera is £50, £75 and £99 a month, by plan, with 30 days free with everything unlocked and no card to start. No setup fee, no contract, no per-booking fee and no commission on what your customers pay you.

Also built for dog walkers, dog groomers and boarding kennels.

30 days with everything unlocked

Set up your services, put your logo on the app and send the link to a few owners. If it has not earned its place in a month, walk away. Nothing was charged.

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