Vendor Almanac

21 vendors · 4 categories · verified through August 22, 2026

Pet Care Software

Gingr

Run your boarding kennel, daycare, grooming, or training business on one system

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Gingr is a cloud-based management platform for dog boarding, daycare, grooming, and training businesses, covering online booking, a customer portal, payments, pet and vaccination records, staff management, and reporting. The company states more than 5,000 pet-care facilities run on Gingr. A PreCheck feature collects signed agreements, vaccination confirmation, belongings, and feeding/medication instructions from pet parents before a scheduled visit.

Pricing

Gingr plans as published at www.gingrapp.com
Plan Price Includes Checked
Spa — Monthly $109/month [src] For groomers and trainers offering appointment-based services: appointment-based booking, automated reminders, groomer-to-breed assignment. Includes Integrated Payments per the page's "Included with Every Plan" list.
Spa — billed annually $100/month [src]
Badged "Subscribe Annually: Save 9% ($108/yr)."
 Same feature set as Spa — Monthly, billed annually.
Play — Monthly $169/month [src] For doggy daycares and day training facilities: everything in Spa plus day reservations with drop-off/pick-up tracking, capacity management, training session scheduling.
Play — billed annually $142/month [src]
Badged "Subscribe Annually: Save 19% ($324/yr)."
 Same feature set as Play — Monthly, billed annually.
Stay — Monthly, with Integrated Payments $179/month [src]
Marked "Most Popular." Page shows this as "$179*/month," the asterisk pointing to the footnote: "Pricing shown with active Integrated Payments." Without Integrated Payments the monthly price is $209 (see the "without" plan below).
 For boarding facilities: everything in Play and Spa plus overnight reservations, kennel room management, extended-stay feeding/medication tracking.
Stay — billed annually, with Integrated Payments $154/month [src]
Badged "Subscribe Annually: Save 16% ($300/yr)." Priced with active Integrated Payments; without it the annual price is $179 (see the "without" plan below).
 Same feature set as Stay — Monthly, billed annually.
Stay — Monthly, without Integrated Payments $209/month [src]
From the page footnote on the Stay card: "$209/mo ($179/mo annual) without" [active Integrated Payments].
 Same feature set as Stay — Monthly, with Integrated Payments.
Stay — billed annually, without Integrated Payments $179/month [src]
From the page footnote on the Stay card: "$209/mo ($179/mo annual) without" [active Integrated Payments].
 Same feature set as Stay — Annual, with Integrated Payments.

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Features

Gingr against the pet care checklist Gingr's own pages
Feature Support Checked
Online booking Yes [src]
"Pet parents book and pay deposits online" through a branded customer portal; the page lists "real-time capacity management" among the features to look for, which Gingr provides.
 August 22, 2026
Capacity management Yes [src]
"Set up capacity groups, which limit slots for each service and reservation type—this will help you avoid overbooking."
 August 22, 2026
Vaccination tracking Yes [src]
"Your staff can pull up every pet's vaccinations, belongings and photos in one place." The dog-park-software page separately describes a dashboard showing "who is due for a vaccine," and Gingr's Partners page lists a VetVerifi integration that "ensures every upcoming reservation has a verified, up-to-date vaccination record on file."
 August 22, 2026
Pet profile Yes [src]
PreCheck intake fields include "pet and pet parent fields," medications and feeding instructions, and belongings, editable by the pet parent ahead of a visit.
 August 22, 2026
Mobile groomer routing No [src]
FAQ: "Does Gingr offer GPS or route management? No, Gingr does not currently offer GPS or route management services. However, you can run the Services By Date report to view all appointments for one day."
 August 22, 2026
Digital intake and agreements Yes [src]
PreCheck form fields include "Agreements, such as signing liability waivers."
 August 22, 2026
Invoicing Yes [src]
"Integrating payments with Gingr allows you to create invoices, accept payments, keep cards on file, and track transactions in one place."
 August 22, 2026
Recurring / automatic billing Yes [src]
Membership packages "automate renewals for steady income" (linked feature is marked "In Beta" in its own help-center title). The payment-processing page separately confirms Integrated Payments supports "memberships and subscriptions (including recurring)."
 August 22, 2026
Integrated payment processing Yes [src]
Gingr Payments (built on CardConnect) is listed as "Included with Every Plan"; supports cards on file, deposits, retail, tips, and terminal hardware.
 August 22, 2026
Customer portal Yes [src]
"Our mobile-first client portal guides pet parents step by step." Clients can book, pay balances, view invoices, and see reservation history.
 August 22, 2026
Two-way customer messaging Add-on [src]
Listed under "Customize Your Gingr Experience" add-ons: "2-Way SMS — Have real-time SMS conversations with your customers right from your app." The base plans instead offer one-way push notifications from the Pet Parent app (per pet-parent-mobile-app FAQ). No price is published for the add-on.
 August 22, 2026
Pet report cards Yes [src]
Page includes a dedicated "Report Cards" section; the homepage's own tab describes photos and activity notes sent "before pickup."
 August 22, 2026
Staff scheduling and time tracking Yes [src]
FAQ confirms staff can "clock in and out" from the mobile app. The grooming page shows a "Tips & Commission" feature that "automatically prompts for tips at checkout and calculates commission," and the training page shows "instructor scheduling" with a staff-scheduling screen assigning "employee shifts." Note: the pricing page's add-ons section separately sells "Employee Scheduling" as a paid add-on ("Integrate weekly employee scheduling..."), so some scheduling functionality beyond what's shown here may be add-on-gated.
 August 22, 2026
QuickBooks sync Unknown
No mention of QuickBooks or other accounting-software sync found on any Gingr page checked.
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Reporting and dashboards Yes [src]
"Track your performance with over 80 customizable reports built into every dashboard."
 August 22, 2026

13 of 15 checklist features confirmed present, 1 confirmed absent.

Integrations

  • CardConnect (payment processing) [src]
  • Broadly (review generation) [src]
  • iDogCam (webcams) [src]
  • abcKam (webcams) [src]
  • VetVerifi (vaccination record verification) [src]

Compared with

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Sources

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