Boarding and Grooming Day Rate
The Kennel CardWhat a stay comes to, once the peak nights and the add-ons are counted in.
A holiday stay and a stay a week later are the same length on a booking sheet and price completely differently, and the baths and nail trims are quoted one at a time and never totaled against board — so nobody knows what either one is actually worth.
Enter each stay, the nights you call peak, and your own rates. This splits every booking into peak nights and standard nights with the money each side carries, totals the baths and nail trims and medication beside the board, takes the sibling discount off a shared run, and prints what each stay comes to and what is still owed on it.
About this tool
Boarding and Grooming Day Rate: what it solves
Two rules set the price of a stay and both of them are the owner’s own. Which nights are peak is a list somebody wrote on the office wall, and it is different at every kennel in the county; what a shared run is worth is a second one. Nothing a kennel owns applies either rule, so a booking sheet shows dates and a calendar shows days, and neither shows that the same six nights price completely differently across a holiday weekend. This reads one card per stay and prints two things. First, every booking split into peak nights and standard nights, with the money each side carries and what the same nights would have come to at the base rate on every one of them — the gap between those two figures is the peak rule, in dollars. Second, the add-ons totaled beside the board with the share they come to, because baths, nail trims and medication are a second business running inside the first and nobody adds them up. It suggests no nightly rate, names no day peak, and prices no add-on.
The same six nights price completely differently, and nothing shows it
A booking sheet shows dates. A calendar shows days. Neither one shows money.
So a six-night stay across Thanksgiving and a six-night stay the following week look identical on every screen you own, right up until the invoice — and by then the rate has already been quoted to somebody on the phone.
Which nights are peak is a list somebody wrote on the office wall. It is different at every kennel in the county, it changes when the local school calendar changes, and nothing you own applies it automatically.
The peak rule, in dollars
This splits every booking into peak nights and standard nights, with the money each side carries.
Then it does one more thing: it works out what those same nights would have come to at the base rate on every one of them.
The gap between those two figures is your peak rule, expressed in money. Not as a percentage, not as a policy — as the amount of actual dollars the decision to charge more over a holiday put into the week. That is a number most owners have never seen, and it is the one that tells you whether the argument at the counter on the 23rd was worth having.
Add-ons are a second business running inside the first
Baths, nail trims, medication, the extra walk. Each one is quoted per item, invoiced per item, and totaled by nobody.
They are priced separately, delivered separately and thought about separately, which is exactly why they never get summed. So the share of a week’s take that comes from add-ons is a figure most kennels do not have, even though it is often the part with the most room in it.
This totals them beside the board figure and shows what share they come to. That is arithmetic on your own bookings, not a suggestion about your pricing — but it is the number that starts the thought.
A stay is counted from check-in to check-out
Friday to Sunday is two nights, not three.
Obvious, universally agreed, and still one of the more common quiet errors in a hand-worked invoice — particularly on a stay that crosses a month boundary or gets extended by a day at the desk.
The dates go in and the nights come out. There is nothing to get wrong.
Peak nights with no peak rate entered
If you have declared a date peak but not set a rate for it, those nights fall to the base rate.
This says so out loud rather than applying the base rate silently. The silent version looks identical to a working sheet, and you would find out in January that the whole holiday season billed flat.
What it replaces
The invoice worked out on the card at the desk, with the peak nights counted on fingers. Or the booking system that holds the dates perfectly and knows nothing about your rate card.
You set your card and your peak list once. Each stay is dates, a size and whatever was added.
Who it is for
Boarding kennels, doggy daycare, groomers and pet sitters — anywhere a stay is priced by the night against a rate card and a calendar the owner wrote.
What it will not do
It suggests no nightly rate. Yours depends on your runs, your staffing and your town.
It names no day peak. Which dates carry a premium is a judgment about your own demand, and a list from anywhere else would be about somebody else’s town.
It prices no add-on.
It does not know whether you are full. This prices the bookings you give it. It is not a reservation system and does not want to become one.
Nothing you type is sent anywhere. The arithmetic runs in your browser. Owner names, animal names and your rate card stay on the machine you typed them on. Close the tab and it is gone.
Yours would be built the same way.
This one runs on made-up data. The version built for your business runs on yours, and you own it outright. Builds start at $2,500. That is a floor, not a quote. What yours costs is agreed before any work begins. The first conversation is free.