Run and kennel scheduling
A live capacity board across every run, kennel, suite, or cattery unit — arrivals, departures, and length-of-stay in one view instead of a paper board or a spreadsheet.
Boarding service
Kennel management that talks to a real vet chart
Vivetra Boarding runs the day-to-day of a boarding facility — runs, kennels, suites, or cattery units, arrivals and departures, vaccination checks, and billing — on the same shared-core deployment as the rest of Vivetra. For a facility that also does medical work, that shared foundation means a boarded pet's aftercare never has to start from a phone call or a hand-typed summary; it starts from the chart that's already there.
$200/mo as your first service — unlimited staff and fully managed hosting included, not a footnote. +$50/mo if added to an existing Vivetra deployment.
What it covers
Vaccination and compatibility holds
Check-in blocks automatically on a lapsed vaccination record or a flagged incompatibility, using the same patient record the medical side of the deployment already keeps — no second card system to keep in sync.
Owner communication log
Every note, photo, and update sent to an owner during a stay lives on that pet's record permanently, so the next front-desk shift (or the next stay, months later) isn't starting from zero.
Multi-pet, multi-service billing
One invoice for a family boarding three dogs with add-on grooming and daycare days, itemized by pet and by service, without hand-assembling it from separate tickets.
Staff-wide visibility, unlimited seats
Front desk, kennel techs, and the practice's medical staff all work off the same deployment at no extra per-seat cost — add staff as you grow without a pricing conversation.
The bridge no one else in this category is attempting
Boarding software in general is a crowded, mature market. What isn't out there — from Gingr to PetExec to Kennel Connection to Pawfinity — is a boarding product built on the same record as a genuine veterinary chart. Vivetra Boarding's aftercare bridge means a pet recovering from surgery, on a medication schedule, or flagged for a recheck is tracked by the same shared-core patient record your practice's medical staff already use, not a second system that has to be manually reconciled with the first. That combination — real kennel operations plus a real medical record underneath it — is the sharpest differentiator across everything Vivetra builds.
Worth knowing before you sign up
- No built-in payment processing. Vivetra doesn't process the payments your clients make to your facility — pair it with whatever processor you already use. (This is unrelated to the checkout you'd use to pay your own Vivetra subscription.)
- No public online-booking widget, yet. Nearly every competitor in this category — Gingr, PetExec, Kennel Connection, Pawfinity, Revelation Pets, KennelBooker — leads its own marketing with online booking. We built the operational core first: scheduling, holds, billing, and the aftercare bridge above. A public booking widget is a deliberate later-stage build, not a hidden gap we're hoping you won't notice.
For context on where the category currently sits: Gingr's own published pricing page shows tiered boarding plans roughly in the $154–209/mo range; Kennel Connection offers two real deployment options by its own FAQ — an on-prem "Desktop" product and a fully-hosted "Cloud" product; Revelation Pets prices its boarding-capable tier (Gold) at $55/mo, with a cheaper $39/mo Silver tier that excludes daycare; PetExec now operates under Kinship (Mars Petcare), running both a legacy hybrid desktop-plus-cloud product and a newer cloud-only product side by side.
See the full boarding comparison for every sourced figure and how Vivetra stacks up feature by feature.
Ready to see it against your own facility?
Tell us your country, your current unit count, and whether you're also running a medical service, and we'll walk through the exact monthly number.
Boarding questions, answered
How does the medical-aftercare bridge actually work?
A pet checked in for boarding shares the same patient record your practice's medical services use. If that pet needs aftercare — a post-surgical stay, medication given on a schedule, a wound recheck — the boarding side and the chart are already looking at the same history, the same current medications, and the same notes. Nobody re-types a summary over the phone or re-enters a medication list by hand.
Can I take online bookings through Vivetra Boarding?
Not yet. This is a deliberate v1 scoping choice, not an oversight — we built the operational core (scheduling, holds, billing, the aftercare bridge) first and are staging a public booking widget for a later release. If online booking is a dealbreaker today, say so; it's the single most-requested addition on our roadmap.
Does Vivetra Boarding process my own payments?
No. There's no built-in payment processing inside Vivetra itself, for any service — pair it with whichever processor your practice already uses. (That's separate from the checkout on this site, which is how you pay your own Vivetra subscription, not how your practice collects money from its clients.)
Do I need the Vet Practice service too, or does Boarding stand alone?
Boarding runs on the same shared-core deployment as every other service, so it works whether or not you've also turned on Vet Practice or Hospital. The aftercare bridge described above only becomes a genuine day-to-day advantage once a medical service is active on the same deployment — a pure boarding-only operation still gets the full kennel-management feature set on its own.
How does the price work if boarding is my first service?
Boarding at $200/mo covers shared-core plus the Boarding service, unlimited staff, and fully managed hosting — the whole thing, not a starting price. Adding it to a deployment that already has another service running costs +$50/mo instead, on the same bill.