Built by running a real pet business, then refined with pet businesses right across Australia. Most booking systems let you set a time and hope for the best. Ours checks every rule you set, in milliseconds.
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Up to 18 rules per slot or run
50%+
Appointments self-booked
0
Double-bookings possible
Some need three rules. Others need fifteen. Start simple. Turn the dial up when you are ready.
needs working hours, suburb limits, and maybe a weight cap. Three rules. Simple.
New booking request
Bella · Golden Retriever · 28kg · Wed 2pm
Working hours
Tue-Sat, 8am-5pm
Service area
Within 15km radius
Weight limit
Dogs under 40kg
with play areas, temperament testing, breed restrictions, vaccination requirements, staff qualifications, and group capacity limits? That is 12+ rules all checked simultaneously, in milliseconds.
Rex + Luna, daycare
Mon-Fri · 7am-6pm · Staffie + Labrador · 2yo + 4yo
gives you a calendar and a prayer. Petboost gives you an engine that checks every rule your business sets.
A calendar
and a prayer
An engine
that knows your rules
When a customer requests a booking, the engine checks every constraint simultaneously. Only genuinely available slots make it through.
Every rule checked simultaneously. Every slot verified in milliseconds.
Use our intelligent availability engine, or skip straight to the diary. Both exist because real businesses need both.
For self-service booking or letting the system handle scheduling with confidence. True availability checks ensure accuracy.
Skip availability checks and drop appointments straight into the diary. You decide what works for your business.
Best of both worlds: intelligent automation with manual override when you need it
Availability-checked
Checks every rule in a single click. Shows only slots that genuinely work for your business. Powers self-service booking.
Drop straight in
Skip the rules. Drop appointments straight into the diary. For walk-ins, special arrangements, or when you know better than the system.
Start simple. Add rules only when you need them. Every rule should solve a real problem you have experienced.
Key eligibility rules, structured capacity, instant or pending. Let the system handle the basics while you focus on pets.
Start minimal, add rules as problems arise. Every rule should solve a real problem you've experienced.
When customers book through your portal, the availability engine runs silently behind every slot. They only see times that genuinely work.
No app download. No account creation. Phone number, verification code, book. That simple.
Day,Week,Month, orTimeline.Group byTeam,Resource, orService.Stack,Zoom,Colour-Code, andFilter.This is not a basic diary.
The day view shows your full schedule with time-based positioning. Each appointment card shows the pet name, service, status, team member, and key indicators. Drag to reschedule, right-click for 15+ actions.
Group By
See your entire week side by side. Spot gaps, identify busy periods, and balance your workload. Hide inactive weekend days to focus on what matters.
See your month in a compact grid. Each day shows stacked appointment cards so you can quickly spot busy days, gaps, and patterns across the month.
See your team or resources as horizontal swim lanes with appointments laid out on a time axis. Perfect for spotting overlaps or gaps in real time.
Split your calendar into columns by team member, resource, service, or service category. Instantly see who is doing what, where, and how busy each column is.
See each team member's schedule side by side. Appointment counts and revenue per column. Select which team members to show. Drag appointments between columns to reassign.
Works beautifully out of the box with sensible defaults. Love to tinker? Every single detail is configurable.
Clean layout, sensible defaults, zero setup required. Start booking appointments in minutes.
Zoom levels, colour modes, stack mode, hidden weekends, filters, drag lock, and much more.
Most pet business software gives you one calendar view and tells you to deal with it. Petboost gives you a command centre. Every toggle you see here is real, and every change is saved to your account automatically. Try clicking around.
Switch between two colour modes. Status mode uses consistent colours for Pending (blue), Confirmed (green), In Progress (pink), Paid (dark green), and Cancelled (red). Service Category mode uses your configured category colours so you can instantly see the service mix.
When many appointments share the same start time, traditional calendars squeeze them into unreadable slivers. Stack Mode gives you a clean, sortable list view instead.
In a standard calendar view, overlapping appointments are squeezed into thin vertical slivers. The more bookings at the same time, the harder they are to read. Details get cut off, names disappear, and you end up clicking every card just to figure out what is happening.
Type a pet name, owner name, service, or team member into the search bar. Matching text is highlighted in red across the calendar. Combine with status filters, team member filters, and resource filters for precise control.
Tabs along the top show live counts for every stage: All, Pending, Confirmed, In Progress, Ready to Pay, Paid, Cancelled, and more. Each tab shows the count and total revenue. Click to filter the calendar instantly.
Drag any appointment to a new time, day, team member, or resource. Drag Lock prevents accidental moves (on by default for non-admin roles). Silent Drag Mode lets you reschedule without triggering customer notifications.
When an owner brings multiple pets, toggle Consolidate Multi-Pet to merge their appointments into a single calendar card. Per-pet duration bars show when each pet starts and finishes. Stacked pet photos show at a glance.
Toggle Show Appointment Padding to see prep and cleanup time visualised directly on each appointment card. Dashed borders indicate padding before and after, with duration labels so you can see exactly how much buffer is allocated.
Export the current calendar view as a CSV spreadsheet or PDF document. The export includes all visible appointments with pet details, services, times, team members, and status. Perfect for offline reference or printing for your reception desk.
Each appointment on the calendar is a dense, information-rich card designed to give you everything you need without clicking.
Every appointment card on the calendar shows the pet's name and photo, the service being performed, the status badge, the assigned team member, and key indicators like care alerts, notes, add-ons, recurring badges, and package credits, without needing to click.
Right-click any appointment to reveal a context menu with 15+ grouped actions: view, edit, check in, check out, charge card, issue refund, cancel, mark as no-show, and more. Actions are context-aware: only valid options for the current status appear. On mobile, the same actions slide up from the bottom.
Every appointment opens into a comprehensive detail view with tabs for overview, customer and pet info, invoicing, notes, activity log, and automations.
The overview tab shows the appointment status, quick action buttons, schedule details, recurring info, service breakdown, team assignment, and resource allocation. A sidebar shows pet photos, breed, age, care alerts, grooming preferences, and business notes.
ConfirmedCheck inManageKiwi’s Appointment
Full Groom · 9:30 - 10:30 AM · $115.00 · Mia
The invoice tab shows line items, add-ons, discounts, fees, tax, and the total. Charge the card on file, take an in-person payment via Stripe Terminal, send a payment link via SMS, or issue full or partial refunds. All without leaving the appointment.
See the pet owner's contact details, the pet's breed, age, weight, desexed status, and all attributes and care tags. View and edit grooming preferences (head & face, body & tail, feet & legs) with attached photos. See package balances and credit history.
Mia Donnelly
Pet ParentPets
Kiwi
Bichon Frise
Pepper
Cavalier King Charles
Copy from a prior visit
Blade 4 body, scissor finish on the legs. Hates the dryer, so towel first and low heat. Nails done, ears clean.
Slight matting behind the ears, worked out by hand. Same tidy as last time.
Add customer-facing notes (visible in their portal), business notes (external or private/internal), and attach photos. The journal tab previews what the pet owner will see: a story of their pet's visit, with photos and groomer notes.
The activity log records everything that happened to this appointment: creation, status changes, payment events (charges, refunds, declines), SMS and email notifications (with content previews), price changes, note updates, photo additions, and more.
Hound Health Bondi
Automated reminder · SMSSent automatically
Send pre-configured SMS notifications without leaving the appointment: tell the owner their pet is ready for pick-up, confirm drop-off, or let them know you are running 15 to 30 minutes late. Request a Google Review via SMS or email after a great visit.
Magic Availability Check finds the best slot automatically. Quick Create lets you take full control. Both support multi-pet bookings, recurring series, add-ons, and custom pricing.
Choose a pet owner, select one or more pets, pick the service, set a date range, and click Check Availability. The engine checks all 18 constraint categories and returns the next 20 available time slots. Click a slot, confirm, done.
Magic Availability CheckNew appointment
Sarah’s householdMagicKiwi
Bichon Frise
Services for Kiwi
Full Groom
Mia · 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Nail Clipping
Mia · 10:00 – 10:15 AM
Buddy
Golden Retriever
Services for Buddy
Full Groom
Mia · 10:30 – 11:30 AM
Skip availability checks entirely. Choose a pet, service, team member, set the time, and create. The system shows warnings if there are conflicts but never blocks you. Perfect for walk-ins, special arrangements, and experienced operators who know their schedule.
Add multiple pets from the same owner into a single booking. Each pet gets their own service, team member, and pricing. Multi-pet discounts are applied automatically based on your configured pet count rates. Add siblings in one click.
Select Services for Kiwi
Bichon Frise · 1st pet
Hydrobath
$45.00
Full Groom
From: $90.00
10-20 kgNail Trim
$20.00
Create recurring appointment series with weekly, fortnightly, monthly, or custom patterns. The engine validates availability across a 12-month sliding window. A conflict resolver handles individual clashes: skip, reschedule, or override each occurrence.
A dedicated 3-step booking form for stay appointments. Step 1: select pets and kennel/room. Step 2: set check-in and check-out dates and times. Step 3: review the stay timeline with sliding-scale pricing, multi-day breakdown, and fulfilment dots for each day.
Petboost bills per 24-hour period, not per calendar night. Longer stays unlock better daily rates.
Saturday rate +15%
Prices automatically adjust by pet size, breed group, or coat type. Override the price on any single appointment. Multi-pet discounts, package credits, and add-on services all calculate automatically. All pricing is transparent and editable before confirmation.
Most software gives you a grid of time slots. Here is what happens when the system actually understands your business.
"Pick a time. Hope it works."
18 constraints checked. Only valid slots shown. Zero guesswork.
Double-bookings happen. You deal with it.
Capacity, conflicts, and overlaps checked simultaneously. Zero double-bookings.
One booking mode. Take it or leave it.
Magic Availability Check for precision. Quick Create for flexibility.
Customers call to book during business hours.
50%+ book themselves. 70%+ of those after business hours.
Recurring bookings? Manual copy-paste, every week.
Full series management with conflict resolution across a 12-month sliding window.
Right-Click Everything.
Every appointment on the scheduler has 15+ actions available in a single right-click: view, edit, cancel, check in, check out, charge, refund. All grouped logically, all context-aware. On mobile, the same actions slide up from the bottom. Power and simplicity are not opposites; they are the same thing done well.
Most pet software gives you a calendar. Here is what separates a calendar from an engine.
Working hours, staff capacity, resource capacity, weight limits, age limits, breed restrictions, suburb limits, service qualifications, padding, booking notice, pet attributes, initial service gates, conflict detection, multi-pet gaps, forced start times, interval snapping, recurring validation, and self-service controls. All checked in milliseconds.
Built by running our own pet business and refined with dozens more, from solo groomers to 20-staff daycares. Every constraint exists because a real business needed it.
Magic Availability Check for precision and self-service. Quick Create for flexibility and overrides. Choose per booking, not per business.
Three rules for a solo walker. Fifteen for a multi-staff daycare. The engine adapts to your complexity, not the other way around.
Customers only see slots that pass all your rules. No phone tag. No double-bookings. No 'sorry, that time does not work after all'.
Weekly, fortnightly, custom patterns. Conflict resolution across a 12-month sliding window. Skip, reschedule, or override individual occurrences without affecting the rest.
Trusted Industry Infrastructure
Powering businesses Australia-wide big & small
250+
pet businesses
300,000+
bookings processed
9
specialised business types
Shown at a regional level. Exact locations and counts are never disclosed.
"Built by people who actually walk into salons"
"I bought this salon in Brisbane at the start of the year with my wife Andi. I've run businesses for 35 years but never a grooming salon, so I inherited a team of groomers, a full client book & software I hadn't chosen. This salon had been through several systems over the years & nobody here had any appetite for doing it again. I was extremely reluctant. I'm very glad we did. What stands out is that Petboost is built by people who actually understand this industry. I asked them once how to handle a price rise & instead of just answering me they went & wrote a proper guide on it for the industry. When I showed them the whiteboard my team writes out & rubs off every day, they'd already seen the same board taped up in salons interstate. They moved our data properly, which is the part I dreaded most. Reception takes payment on the card reader at the counter against the booking, so nothing gets written down twice. The reporting is what changed how I run it. I can see which days are running over capacity & which aren't, & which parts of the menu are earning. That turned a decision about taking on another groomer from a gut feel into something I could actually look at. I've used a lot of software over 35 years. This is the best in its field in Australia."
Craig H
The Grooming Salon - QLD
"Up to 80 dogs a day, and we have stopped chasing payments"
"We're a doggy daycare and grooming salon on the Gold Coast and can have up to 80 dogs booked in on our busiest days with a team of around 10, so there's a lot happening at once. We changed over from Gingr in April and were definitely nervous about moving everything across, but it ended up being the easy part. They moved all of our customers, dogs, photos and information across and we were using the new system within about two weeks. Having cards on file has been one of our favourite changes because we're not constantly following up payments any more, and around 4 in 10 of our bookings are now made online, which takes a lot of pressure off the phone when we're busy with the dogs. Our regular daycare dogs already sit in the diary as recurring bookings, and in four months we've had almost no no-shows. We also really like that they're Australian. Being able to ask a question and actually get help from someone in our timezone makes a huge difference."
Suzi Pooch
Suzi Pooch Doggy Daycare & Dog Grooming - QLD
"Within just 2 days my calendar was up and running"
"Huge shout out to the team at Petboost. After months of wasting time and money trialling other software, dealing with endless setup issues and ongoing emails, I finally threw in the towel and gave Petboost a go. Within just 2 days, all of my client information had been transferred, services created, staff added, and my calendar was up and running. Every question I've had has been answered so quickly, and the support team has been incredible throughout the entire setup process. The software itself is so well thought out and easy to navigate. From appointments and invoicing to pet profiles, grooming notes, banking integration and automation, everything just works seamlessly. It already feels like it's saving me hours of admin, and I can't wait to keep customising it over the coming months. I'm genuinely impressed with how smooth the transition has been. If you're a pet business looking for new software, I'd absolutely recommend giving Petboost a look."
Meg O
Hounds with Hair - QLD
"Incredible support through a huge transition"
"We quickly outgrew our previous scheduling system, and Frazer was incredible in supporting us through what was a huge transition. Moving our entire business - 15 staff, 2 salons, 5 trailers, plus grooming, daycare, boarding, and behavioural training - was no small task. The level of support, training, and one-on-one guidance we received made all the difference. It allowed us to get up and running quickly and seamlessly, while continuing to operate the business throughout the transition. Our clients have also given great feedback - the online booking system is far easier to use than our previous one. We highly recommend Petboost to businesses of any size."
Melissa M
McKinnons Dogwash and Grooming - NSW
"Streamlined Booking with Exceptional Support"
"I really appreciate that Petboost Business is Australian, and the owners are very hands-on, striving to make the product the best possible for my business. It has drastically reduced my admin time compared to previous systems. I love the new two-way SMS feature and the live availability calendar. The system is intuitive and easy for both my clients and staff to use without the need for extensive training. If any issues arise, they're usually fixed the same day. They're constantly rolling out new features. Petboost Business also connects to Stripe and Xero, which is a big plus. Initial setup was incredibly easy since Frazer came to our business and set it up with me."
Conor
Dogs of Melbourne - VIC
"Switching to Petboost has been fantastic"
"Our whole process of switching from our old software to Petboost has been fantastic. Frazer has been incredibly supportive from day one, which made the changeover feel smooth and well guided. Now we can manage all our services easily in one place, and the ability to combine both daycare and grooming bookings has been especially helpful. Petboost is not only easy to use and logical, but the pricing is very competitive. It's also a big plus that it's Australian owned and operated. Streamlining communication between clients and the business, while also reducing admin time, has been amazing. It's made things feel much more organised and easier to manage day to day."
Annie
Houndz Paradise
"A game changer for our business"
"We've been using Petboost for Total Paws Dog Grooming and honestly, it's been a game changer for our business. The booking system is super easy for our clients to use, and it's taken a huge amount of back-and-forth out of scheduling. Everything is streamlined, professional, and just works the way you want it to. From reminders to managing appointments, it's saved us time every single day and helped us present a much more polished experience."
Total Paws Dog Grooming
Total Paws Dog Grooming
"Best in market software for Pet Care industries"
"Support is amazing and the software is the best on market for pet industries. I've worked in software and marketing prior to owning my own pet care business, and could tell immediately that Petboost was something unique. There is nothing I dislike about Petboost: the owner and developer, Frazer, is making constant improvements, so I'm sure any small areas of opportunity are being addressed. We needed a system to improve efficiency with scheduling, notifications, communication and customer experience, and Petboost delivers that."
Jonathon & Chris
Hollywoof Walks
"Switched from a US system after 6 years. Never looked back."
"You won't regret joining…it's the best. I own a dog daycare, grooming and training. I was using an American company for 6 years, which was ok but expensive, not a great system and to get any support took days. When I came to Petboost which is Aussie owned I knew they were a small business but wanted to give them a go. I have been extremely impressed, the customer service is out of this world, they focus on what animal businesses actually need and listen to their clients. The pricing structure makes sense and is very affordable, it is very easy to use and navigate, and the way they have built the business reports and analytics is so impressive, easy to understand and personalised."
Sacha
My Dogs Daycare - QLD
"The automatic payments feature is a blessing"
"Streamlined Invoicing and Booking for Small Teams. I really like how much quicker and easier Petboost Business has become after the upgrades. The automatic payments feature is a blessing as it helps me not to stress, and the self-booking option for clients is amazing for my business! These features ease the mental load and reduce manual admin tasks, allowing me to focus on what I do best."
Fion C
Fion's Dog Training - NSW
"Clear, Client-Friendly Booking Tool with Responsive Support"
"As a dog trainer it is difficult to find software that does all of the things that you need it to do. Petboost is tailored specifically to the animal industry having features that no other booking system I have used previously has. I have worked in the industry for a number of years in grooming, daycare & training & have always had to use a mish mash of a number of systems & trackers to book & collect money. For my training business this software does everything I need it to do so I don't have to keep track of a number of different aspects across various platforms. It has simplified my life immensely."
Liz D
Fetch & Focus - QLD
"I no longer have to chase clients for late payments"
"Petboost has truly been a saving grace! As a platform that's actually all-in-one, it has streamlined so much, saving me time and reducing costs. One of the biggest time-savers has been the automated invoicing feature. I no longer have to chase clients for late payments or spend hours preparing invoices manually."
Camille H
Trail Sniffers - NSW
"Zero missed payments. Zero no-shows."
"Just try it, you won't look back. The moment I turned Petboost on for my business, I never looked back. I haven't had a single missed payment or no-show. I no longer have to manually reconcile payments either. Now I can finally get time to do other things in my business instead of sitting in front of a screen for 'admin days'."
Annika L
Hound Health Bondi - NSW
"Foolproof, Easy-to-Use Booking with All the Accessories I Needed"
"Petboost is foolproof, easy to use, access and has all the accessories that I was seeking in an online booking platform. I genuinely love the AI Grazi, the talking dog - every time I need help locating or using a feature, Grazi helps me. I have used her to find invoices, change my reminder schedule and to locate appointments. Petboost provides a multi-purpose booking site for my small business. I needed a booking site that was accessible to clients and could allow me to load multiple locations for different days. The system provides reminders, uses both SMS and email, and has a card-on-file feature that holds funds securely. Essentially Petboost is making my job easier by doing the hard admin work for me."
Jade
Toof Petcare
Everything you need to know about the intelligent booking engine and calendar.
Every rule your business needs. Two booking modes. Self-service ready. Zero double-bookings. Built by running a real pet business, refined right across Australia.
