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Vivetra Boarding & Grooming vs. Gingr, Revelation Pets, Kennel Connection & the rest
Boarding software is a crowded, mature category, and most of these products are good at what they do. This page lays out how Vivetra's flat, unlimited-staff, managed-hosting model stacks up against the named competitors on price, on the client portal your pet parents actually use, and on one feature none of them is attempting — and it's just as direct about where Vivetra still comes up short.
Vivetra Boarding & Grooming is fully managed for you: you never touch a server, patch an OS, or restore a backup — that's included in the price, not a footnote.
Pricing & feature comparison
Verified as of August 2, 2026. Every competitor figure in the table is shown exactly as that vendor publishes it, with a link to the source we pulled it from and the date we checked.
This is Vivetra's own comparison of Vivetra against other boarding software — written by an interested party, and honest about it. Spot something wrong or out of date? Report an inaccuracy and we'll correct it within 5 business days.
| Product | Published pricing / deployment (as sourced) | Bridges to a real vet medical chart | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vivetra Boarding & Grooming | $200/mo as your first service — unlimited staff and fully managed hosting included. +$50/mo added to an existing Vivetra deployment. Flat, regardless of headcount. | Yes — the whole point (see below) | Vivetra pricing schedule |
| Gingr |
tiered boarding plans, roughly $154-209/mo |
No — a boarding/daycare tool, not a veterinary chart | View source (opens in new tab) verified 2026-07-23 |
| Revelation Pets |
$55/mo Gold tier (boarding/cattery/daycare/grooming/training); $39/mo Silver tier (no daycare) |
No — a boarding/daycare tool, not a veterinary chart | View source (opens in new tab) verified 2026-07-23 |
| Kennel Connection |
hybrid on-prem (Desktop) and fully-hosted (Cloud) deployment options |
No — a boarding/daycare tool, not a veterinary chart | View source (opens in new tab) verified 2026-07-23 |
| PetExec | Not in our verified dataset — we don't quote a figure we haven't independently sourced. | No — a boarding/daycare tool, not a veterinary chart | — |
| Pawfinity | Not in our verified dataset — we don't quote a figure we haven't independently sourced. | No — a boarding/daycare tool, not a veterinary chart | — |
| KennelBooker | Not in our verified dataset — we don't quote a figure we haven't independently sourced. | No — a boarding/daycare tool, not a veterinary chart | — |
Competitor figures are shown exactly as each vendor publishes them — in that vendor's own currency and units. Only Vivetra's own price responds to the currency selector at the top of the page, and it never does so by exchange-rate conversion: it's the same number in every market, shown with the local symbol and tax treatment.
The bridge no one else in this category is attempting
Here's the sharpest line between Vivetra and everything else on this page. Gingr, PetExec, Kennel Connection, Pawfinity, Revelation Pets, KennelBooker — every one of them is a boarding and daycare product. None of them is built on top of a genuine veterinary medical chart, because that isn't what they are.
Vivetra Boarding & Grooming is. It runs on the same shared-core patient record your practice's medical services use, so a boarded pet that needs aftercare — recovering from surgery, on a medication schedule, flagged for a recheck — is tracked against the same history, the same current medications, and the same notes the medical side already keeps. Nobody reads a summary over the phone or re-enters a drug list by hand. That combination — real kennel operations sitting directly on a real medical record — is a category nobody else here is even attempting, and it's the single sharpest differentiator across everything Vivetra builds.
What your clients see
Every product on this page sells a client-facing front end, so this is a checkbox you should compare item by item rather than take on faith. Here's exactly what Vivetra's client portal does today.
- Online booking requests — staff still approves every one. Clients request a stay, a daycare day, or a groom from the portal; the request lands in your queue and a person on your team approves it. Vivetra never auto-books a kennel you didn't agree to fill, which is a real difference from an instant-booking widget.
- Pet profiles and a vaccine compliance gate. Owners keep their own pet details current and upload vaccine records, and the portal checks compliance up front — so the awkward conversation happens before the drop-off, not at your front counter with a car still running outside.
- Saved cards, deposits, and online payment. You connect your facility's own Stripe account. Clients save a card, pay a deposit to hold a booking, and settle the bill online. You keep your own Stripe relationship and your own rates; a small platform fee applies on top of them.
- Recurring bookings and pre-arrival prep. Standing daycare days repeat without re-entry, and before a stay the owner works through a pre-arrival bundle — forms signed, belongings listed, vaccine status confirmed. Arrival itself is still a staff act at the door; this just means nothing is outstanding when they get there.
- Stay updates, grooming report cards, and style preferences. Owners follow the stay from their phone, and a groom finishes with a report card and photos rather than a verbal summary. Style preferences carry from visit to visit, so the second groom starts where the first one left off.
Where Vivetra falls short today
Real limitations, stated as directly as the strengths above — because burying them would be dishonest, and you'd find out anyway.
- Booking is request-and-approve, not instant. Several competitors on this page let a client book a kennel outright from a public widget. Vivetra doesn't: every online booking arrives as a request that a staff member approves. We think that's the right default for a facility with real capacity limits, but if you want a client to be able to confirm their own booking at midnight with nobody in the loop, that isn't what this does.
- You bring your own Stripe account — and there's a platform fee. Online payments run through a Stripe account that belongs to your facility, so you keep your own Stripe relationship and your own processing rates, and the money lands in your account, not ours. On top of Stripe's own rate there's a small Vivetra platform fee. If you'd rather not use Stripe at all, this part of the product won't suit you.
- We're the new vendor here. Gingr, Kennel Connection, and the rest have years of production track record behind them. Vivetra is newer and less battle-tested in boarding specifically. The medical-record foundation is a genuine advantage — but "newer" is a fair thing to weigh against it.
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Comparison questions, answered
How current is this comparison?
Every competitor figure below is dated. The pricing and feature claims here were independently verified as of August 2, 2026, and each row links to the exact vendor page or FAQ it came from. If any of it has gone stale, tell us and we'll correct it within 5 business days.
Is this an unbiased comparison?
No — and we'd rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise. This is Vivetra's own comparison of Vivetra against other boarding software, so of course it's written by an interested party. What we can promise is that every competitor claim is sourced, dated, and linked, that we state Vivetra's real gaps in the same breath as its strengths, and that we never quote a number we haven't independently verified.
What does Vivetra do here that Gingr, PetExec, and the rest don't?
It bridges a boarding stay into a real veterinary medical chart. Every product on this page is a boarding/daycare tool; none of them is built on top of a genuine vet chart. Vivetra Boarding & Grooming runs on the same shared-core patient record your practice's medical services use, so a boarded pet's aftercare — a post-surgical stay, a medication schedule, a wound recheck — is already looking at the same history nobody has to re-type. That category, boarding operations sitting directly on a real medical record, is one nobody else here is even attempting. The same record is what the client portal reads from, which is why the vaccine gate on a booking request is the pet's actual vaccine history rather than a separate list somebody keeps up by hand.
What does Vivetra NOT do that these boarding tools do?
Two things, stated straight. Online booking here is request-and-approve: a client submits a booking request from the portal and a staff member approves it, so nobody fills a kennel without your say-so — several competitors do let a client confirm a booking outright, and that is a genuine difference. And online payments run through a Stripe account that belongs to your facility: you keep your own Stripe relationship and rates, the money lands in your account, and a small Vivetra platform fee applies on top of Stripe's own rate. Neither is hidden; both are in the gaps section above.
Why don't you list a price for PetExec, Pawfinity, and KennelBooker?
Because we don't have an independently verified figure for them in our source dataset, and we won't print a number we can't stand behind. They're named so the comparison is honest about who else is in the field — but a blank, clearly-marked cell is better than a guessed one. (For context outside the sourced table: PetExec now operates under Kinship / Mars Petcare and runs both a legacy hybrid desktop-plus-cloud product and a newer cloud-only product.)
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