For boarding
Dog boarding software that thinks in nights.
Most pet-care software is built around visits — a thirty-minute slot on a Tuesday. Boarding isn't a visit. Nuzzo prices and schedules stays by the night, from drop-off to pickup, lets clients request their own dates, and invoices the whole stay as one line. Flat pricing — $29/mo on your own, $79/mo for a team of up to five.
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Nuzzo fits if…
- You charge per night and want that priced automatically.
- You want clients requesting their own dates instead of texting you.
- You also do walks, drop-ins or grooming and want them in one calendar.
- You work alone or with a team of up to five, and don't want a per-seat bill.
- Your bottleneck is scheduling, billing and keeping owners updated — not managing a building.
Use something else if…
- You have a building with runs or suites that need assigning.
- You need occupancy and capacity management.
- You need feeding and medication boards for staff shifts.
- You run boarding, daycare and grooming across a whole facility.
That's kennel software — Gingr or PetExec. We compare them here, honestly, including where we don't compete.
Why visit-based software breaks on boarding
Software built around dog walking thinks in visits — a thirty-minute slot on a Tuesday. Boarding doesn't work that way, and the mismatch shows up fast:
A five-night stay becomes five separate bookings
One stay, from drop-off to pickup, priced across the nights between them.
Pricing is per visit, so you do the multiplication by hand
Set a nightly rate once. The total is calculated from the dates, every time.
Clients text you asking 'do you have the 14th to the 20th free?'
They pick drop-off and pickup themselves and see the nights and estimated total before they send it. You confirm the exact dates before anything is scheduled.
Invoicing a long stay means adding up line items
The stay invoices as one item at your nightly rate.
What you get
Per-night pricing
Set your nightly rate on the service. Totals come from drop-off and pickup dates, including multi-pet stays.
Client-requested stays
Share one booking link. Clients choose dates, see the night count and an estimated total, and send a request you approve or decline.
Photo updates that calm people down
Boarding clients worry more than walk clients. Send photo report cards during the stay, from your phone, in a few taps.
Invoices and payments
Invoice the whole stay as one line. Take payment by card, or via Venmo, Zelle, PayPal or Cash App — you keep 100% of your rate.
One system for everything
Most boarders also walk or do drop-ins. Overnight stays, home visits and grooming appointments share one calendar and one invoice run.
A team, priced by band
Team is a flat $79/mo for up to five people — no per-seat climb from two to five. Owner, admin and walker roles mean staff see their own schedule and nothing else. Above five, we set up a custom plan.
Flat $29/mo
No per-staff fee, no per-pet cap, no cut of your bookings. What you charge is what you keep.
Boarding through Rover right now?
Boarding is where Rover's cut hurts most, because the bookings are big. A ten-night stay at $60 a night is $600 — and Rover's fee comes off the whole thing, at up to 30% on newer clients in its tiered-fee pilot markets.
Most boarders use Rover to meet clients and then run the repeat business themselves. We wrote up how Rover's tier system actually works if you want the numbers before deciding.
Board in a way we haven't thought of? Tell us — boarding features here got built because a boarder asked for them.