Dog boarding booking system

Take boarding requests without ever
double-booking a night

Let owners request their dates on your own booking page, and Barclo checks you’ve genuinely got a bed for every single night before it lets the request through. No more counting across a wall calendar, no more taking a dog you’ve no room for. Built in the UK, for boarders and home boarders.

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Sunny Hill Boarding

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Step 1 of 5
  • Per night S

    Standard boarding · shared room

    £35 per night · settled in with the family

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  • Per night R

    Single-dog room

    £48 per night · quiet, your dog only

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  • 14 nights F

    Whole-fortnight rate · 14 nights

    £30 per night · school-holiday saving

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  • Check A

    Check availability

    12 to 19 May · 7 nights · bed free

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Sound familiar?

Booking overnight stays by
calendar and crossed fingers

Boarding bookings are the hardest to take by hand, because every stay is a stretch of nights, not a single slot.

  1. 01

    The overlap you didn’t spot. One dog arriving Friday, another leaving Sunday, a third in all fortnight, and somewhere in the maths you’ve said yes to one bed too many.

  2. 02

    The holiday-week scramble. Everyone wants the same school-holiday fortnight, the requests pile in by text, and you’re trying to work out who you can fit while the messages keep coming.

  3. 03

    The booking that goes elsewhere. A request comes in at night, you reply in the morning, and they’ve already booked the boarder who answered first.

A real booking system counts the nights for you.

Owners request dates, Barclo checks every night has a bed, and you confirm with confidence. Built around you, the boarder.

Dates in, beds checked, sorted

How a booking actually works

This is what taking a boarding request looks like when your page does the counting.

  1. Step one

    They pick their dates.

    Drop-off and pick-up, straight on your page. No back-and-forth working out what’s free.

  2. Step two

    Barclo checks every night.

    It looks at each night of the requested stay against what you’ve already got in, so a request only goes through if you genuinely have the room.

  3. Step three

    They request, you approve.

    Boarding’s personal, so you stay in control. The request lands in one place with the dog’s details attached.

  4. Step four

    It’s confirmed.

    They get confirmation, you get the stay on your calendar, your occupancy updates itself.

That’s the booking. Every night accounted for, no double-booked beds.

app.barclo.co.uk/book/sunny-hill-boarding S Sunny Hill Boarding Tunbridge Wells · from £35/night REQUEST YOUR DATES D Drop-off date Monday 12 May · from 9am 12 May P Pick-up date Monday 19 May · 7 nights 19 May B Your dog Biscuit · cocker spaniel · 4 yrs £245

Requests in while you sleep

Your own booking page, taking requests around the clock

Most boarding enquiries come in the evening, when owners are planning their holidays. Your booking page is there to catch them, open every hour you’re settling dogs or fast asleep. Share one link and owners send their dates whenever they think of it, instead of firing off a text you’ll answer half-asleep. You wake up to tidy requests with dates and dog details already attached, not a tangle of half-finished message threads.

What a wall calendar can’t do

Every night checked against your real beds

This is the heart of boarding, and it’s exactly what a paper calendar can’t do safely. When an owner requests a stay, Barclo checks each night separately against everything else you’ve got booked, the arrivals, the departures, the dogs already mid-stay, and only lets the request through if there’s genuinely a bed free for the whole stretch.

Overlapping stays, holiday-week pile-ups, all handled by the same capacity engine that runs every Barclo booking. You never again get that stomach-drop of realising you’re one bed short with a dog already on the doorstep.

For the full boarding picture, occupancy, feeding logs, owner updates, see the dog boarding software.

May availability Pick your dates · bed checked per night 5 of 6 beds 12 Mon 13 Tue 14 Wed 15 Thu 16 Fri 17 Sat 18 Sun 19 Mon 20 to 25 May · Full Half-term · no beds available Your request: 12 to 19 May 5 nights free · bed available all 7 nights Each night counted, never a bed too many 5 of 6 beds today Capacity engine, set to nights

Everything your booking needs

Built for how boarders really take bookings

Six things that turn the booking-by-text scramble into a single tidy flow.

Date-range requests

Drop-off to pick-up, in one go

Owners pick drop-off and pick-up, Barclo handles the nights between. No awkward back-and-forth working out how long the stay actually is.

Bed-aware availability

Only stays you can actually house

Every night of a requested stay is checked against your real bed count. Only stays you can actually house get through, the rest never reach you as a clash.

Approve every stay

Boarding’s personal, you confirm

Boarding’s personal, so requests come to you to confirm. You see the dog, the dates and the owner before you say yes.

Deposits at booking

Take a deposit to secure the dates

Connect Stripe and take a deposit the moment a stay is booked. Set the percentage per service, money in, dates held.

Reminders

Nobody turns up on the wrong day

Drop-off reminders go out before the stay starts, so owners arrive on the right day with the right dog and the right kit.

One occupancy view

See who’s in every night

Every stay, every bed, on a single occupancy view. See who’s in tonight, who’s arriving tomorrow, and where the gaps are, at a glance.

Why boarders choose Barclo

Why switch to Barclo

Built in Britain

Pounds and pence, British spelling, UK details throughout.

One flat price

£29 a month, a spare room or a full kennels, the price doesn’t move.

No lock-in, ever

Import to start, export any time. Your data is yours.

Every service, one system

Boarding today, daycare or walking tomorrow, all in one place.

Pricing

Simple, honest pricing

One plan. Everything included. No feature gating. No “contact us for pricing.”

Barclo Pro

£ 29 /month

Everything you need to take boarding requests, and run your boarding business.

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What’s included

  • Your own branded booking page
  • Date-range request flow
  • Bed capacity checked across every night
  • Approval-required mode for every stay
  • Deposits at booking via Stripe
  • Drop-off reminders
  • Lead capture for unfinished requests
  • Card payments and bank transfer invoicing
  • Unlimited clients, pets and stays
  • Pet profiles, feeding, medication, vet details
  • Vaccination alerts
  • VAT support
  • Calendar (day, week, month views)
  • GDPR compliant with data export
  • UK bank holidays built in

FAQ

Boarding questions, answered

Will it stop me taking a stay I’ve no bed for?

Yes, it checks every night of the stay against your real availability before the request goes through.

Can owners request their own dates?

Yes, on your booking page, and you approve each one.

Does it handle overlapping stays?

That’s the whole point, it counts arrivals and departures across nights so nothing clashes.

Can I take a deposit to secure dates?

Yes, take a deposit at the point of booking via Stripe.

Does it work for home boarding, not just kennels?

Yes, you set your own capacity and it works to it.

Do I need a website?

No, your booking page is a shareable link.

Know your beds, take the booking

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