The ultimate doggy daycare software loaded with features for unmatched flexibility & simplicity.
Transform your doggy daycare with Collar's cutting-edge software. Effortlessly manage bookings, streamline daily tasks. and deliver exceptional care, all while enhancing the experience for both pets and their owners.
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With Collar for daycares, You Can:
Booking Management
Manage your daycare bookings, with ease.
Managing booking requests for full days, half-days, or drop-ins is effortless with Collar. Accept requests via your website or mobile app 24/7, set custom acceptance rules, enable waiting lists, and easily reschedule or cancel bookings—all seamlessly handled by Collar.
Payment & Billing
Manage payments and invoices on your own terms, with complete flexibility.
Collar makes payment and invoice management seamless. Charge customers as needed, or automatically using stored cards—either on the day of their booking or by issuing an automated summary invoice for all services at the end of your billing cycle, be it weekly or monthly.
Availability & Capacity
Manage availability & capacity - per service.
Collar allows you to effortlessly set up and manage availability and capacity per service. Our smart scheduling system handles booking and availability automatically, ensuring you stay within your capacity at any point of the day, with no extra effort from you.
Route Management
Manage your pick-up & drop-off service effortlessly.
Collar Routes™, our integrated route management solution, works perfectly with our booking module, enabling you to easily manage daily pick-up and drop-off services. Integrated with our booking module, it generates routing suggestions based on daily bookings, offering full control and visibility for you and your drivers.
Communications
Communicate seamlessly through text, photos & videos.
Collar Chat™ is our popular integrated feature that lets you communicate with customers instantly, going beyond just text to include sharing photos, videos, and reports. It intelligently switches between SMS and in-app messages based on user preferences, ensuring seamless communication.
Account Management
Manage pet profiles, vaccinations & client accounts.
Easily manage pet profiles and owner accounts with Collar. Monitor vaccinations, treatments, and access behavioural data, feeding schedules, and key contact information—all readily available when needed.
Memberships
Offer Memberships, packages & members discounts.
Collar supports membership subscriptions with automatic billing. Link memberships to services to create custom packages and tiered pricing that suit your business, offering greater customer value while ensuring recurring revenue.
Service Design
Upsell with add-ons and grow with new service offerings.
Collar makes increasing your revenue streams easy. You can seamlessly add service extras like a bus service, meal club, or quick wash to your existing offerings. Ready to diversify? Collar supports all pet care services—from grooming to training and boarding—allowing you to scale with ease.
And so much more.
Marketing & Promotions
Collar delivers an all-in-one marketing suite, featuring integrated direct messaging and email campaigns. Engage your entire audience or target specific segments identified through reports for a more precise approach.
E-commerce
Whether you want to diversify your revenue by selling products alongside your services or are a retail brand aiming to reach the expanding global market of pet owners, Collar's integrated e-commerce solution has you covered.
Client Credit Management
Collar simplifies client credit management. Whether you want to offer a credit system instead of issuing refunds or sell credit packages for specific or all your services, it can all be easily managed within Collar.
Multi-Site management
With Collar, you can manage all your sites from a single platform. Get a high-level overview of your entire operation or explore the daily activities of individual sites in detail.
Business & Financial Reporting
Collar provides powerful business and financial reporting in real-time. Whether you need to assess your current business performance or identify emerging trends, Collar has you covered.
Collar Tags™
Our popular smart tagging system enables you to categorise and filter bookings, pets, and clients. With added automations, Collar Tags can perform tasks on your behalf, saving you both time and money.
Staff & Roles Management
Collar enables you to manage your staff's calendars, availability, and schedules with ease. Assign roles to your staff, and Collar will handle permissions, ensuring everyone has the correct access to perform their tasks
Task Management
With Collar, you can effortlessly create and assign tasks to your team members. Tasks can be created, assigned, and monitored directly within the Staff Chat tab, simplifying and streamlining daily operations.
Connect clients and staff through the Collar mobile app.
The Collar mobile app offers pet owners a modern way to engage with their favourite care providers. Users can book services, chat with staff, access reports, receive key reminders and keep their pet profiles updated.
How it works
Keep places, attendance and care in sync
A daycare place is more than a slot on a calendar. Staff need to see who has asked for a place, who is booked, who has arrived and who has gone home. They also need the right care notes for each dog.
What makes Collar different
Collar is built to connect the customer, their individual pets, the service and the order—not just put a time in a calendar. That shared context helps teams follow the work from first booking to payment and the next visit.
Other systems may offer some or all of these tools. The practical difference to check is whether the parts your team needs share the same pet and customer context in your Collar setup.
- Plan how many dogs each area and team can safely care for, especially at drop-off and collection.
- Review each dog's care information and required documents before confirming attendance.
- Record check-in and collection so the live attendance view is trustworthy.
- Check any used package visit or payment. Note which owners need a follow-up.
What to test in a demo: Ask what happens when a staff member is absent on a fully booked day. A human should decide the safe response; software should make the affected bookings easy to find.
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Ready to get started?
See how Collar can be customised for your pet business. Book a demo with a product expert to discuss your needs.
See Collar in action
Explore bookings, schedules, payments and client communication together.
Moving from another platform?
We can help transfer your data and plan a smoother transition for your team.
Which pet businesses can use Collar?
Collar supports pet care businesses including daycares, grooming salons, boarding businesses, trainers, and walkers and sitters. Explore the page for your business type to see relevant booking, payment and daily care workflows.
Can customers book services online?
Customers can request services through your booking page or the Collar pet owner app. You can manage service schedules, availability and booking rules alongside pet records and customer messages. Explore booking management.
Can I manage deposits, invoices and memberships?
Collar connects bookings with deposits, payments and invoices, and supports membership subscriptions and packages. Card payments are processed through Stripe. Explore payments or membership management.
How can I check whether Collar fits my business?
Book a demo and bring an example of your service schedule, booking rules and payment process. We can walk through your daily workflow, the features you need and a practical approach to moving from your current system. View pricing and the client management features before your demo.
Plan a better daycare day
Make capacity and arrival plans clear for the team, then share an owner checklist before the first visit.