Petboarding

Easy, fast and reliable pet boarding software — the all-in-one platform to manage your pet boarding and daycare facility.

Website

https://www.petboarding.app

Documentation

Full documentation at petboarding.app:

• Features overview
• Customer guide
• Employee guide
• Administrator guide

Demo

https://demo.petboarding.app

Features

🧑‍🦱 Customer Self-Service Portal

• Customers register and manage their personal information, contact people, and pets
• Online boarding bookings with date ranges, time slots, and optional services
• Daycare date management with prepaid subscription packages
• Real-time booking and daycare status visibility
• Automatic email notifications on approval, rejection, standby, or cancellation

🐕 Comprehensive Pet Management

• Rich pet profiles with species, breed, weight, food schedules, and medications
• Vaccination tracking with document upload and automatic compliance checking
• Pet compatibility ratings for safe kennel cohabitation
• Full-text search across all pets

📆 Boarding Management

• Booking review workflow: approve, reject, standby, or reply
• Day and week agenda views with color-coded status indicators
• Automatic pricing based on pet category, stay duration, and services
• Down payment support with automatic payment tracking
• Configurable cancelation handling

📅 Daycare Operations

• Monthly daycare calendar with pet counts per day
• Prepaid daycare subscriptions with automatic day deduction
• Bulk approve/reject/standby for multiple dates
• Subscription purchase and tracking for customers

🏠 Kennel Layout

• Visual drag-and-drop pet-to-kennel assignment
• Building and kennel hierarchy with capacity management
• Vaccination compliance badges on pet chips
• Printable kennel layout for physical reference

📊 Business Insights

• Occupancy calendar with color-coded capacity thresholds
• Financial overview with unpaid booking tracking
• Integrated SlimFact invoicing with iDEAL payment support

🔒 Role-Based Access Control

• Customer — Own profile, pets, bookings, and daycare only
• Employee — Customer management, kennel layout, agenda, labels
• Administrator — Full system control including configuration and finances

⚙️ Configuration

• Pricing categories per species with date-based price overrides
• Customizable opening times with arrival/departure slots
• Optional services (appointments and surcharges)
• Blocked periods with type-based availability rules
• Vacation surcharges with built-in holiday calendars
• Customizable email templates (Handlebars)
• Announcements with urgency levels

📱 Technical

• Fully responsive (desktop, tablet, mobile)
• PWA support with offline caching
• Dark mode
• English and Dutch language support
• Self-hosted with Docker Compose

Self-hosted

You will need a running Caddy container.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simsustech/petboarding/main/docker-compose.yaml
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simsustech/petboarding/main/.env.example -O .env
mkdir env
nano -L .env  # Change environment
nano -L env/POSTGRES_PASSWORD # Enter postgres password
nano -L env/OTP_SECRET  # Enter OTP secret, use openssl rand -base64 32
nano -L env/OIDC_COOKIES_KEYS # Enter OIDC cookies keys, use openssl rand -base64 32, comma separated
docker compose up

Development

Petboarding is built on top of Modular API. You will need an account for private NPM access.

git clone https://github.com/simsustech/petboarding.git
cd petboarding
pnpm i
docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yaml up
cd packages/api
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=your_password POSTGRES_DB=petboarding pnpm run migrate:latest
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=your_password POSTGRES_DB=petboarding pnpm run seed:demo
pnpm run dev

License

Copyright © simsustech 2023-present

ELv2 License

AI

As of June 2026 the development is AI assisted.