A Time To Pet alternative for boarding and daycare facilities
Time To Pet sells software for in-home pet care and for facilities. If you run a boarding or daycare facility and you're comparing it with Petsoft, here is what Time To Pet's own pages say next to what Petsoft does, plus the questions to put to both companies.
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What Petsoft is
Petsoft is built for the facility side of pet care: kennels, daycares, grooming salons and training centers. Reservations, customer and pet records, payments and staff share one system. Sitting and walking businesses should ask sales whether it fits. See how Petsoft works for a facility.
The features page has the full list, and the evaluation worksheet lets you test Petsoft on your own boarding and daycare day.
Time To Pet and Petsoft side by side
We checked Time To Pet's own pages on October 26, 2026. Prices and terms change, so confirm anything that matters to you with Time To Pet. Time To Pet is a trademark of its owner, and Petsoft isn't affiliated with it.
| Topic | Time To Pet | Petsoft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | The pricing page lists a Facility plan at $79 a month for daycare, grooming or boarding companies. Its boarding page says plans start at $79 a month and scale with facility size. Plans for in-home businesses are priced separately. | A Free plan with no time limit. Starter is $50 and Professional is $100 per facility per month, with no pet or employee limits on either. Boarding and daycare reservations come with every plan. |
| Trial | A 14-day free trial with no card. | The Free plan has no time limit, and you don't need a card to sign up. |
| Contract | Its help center says plans are month-to-month with no contract, and you can cancel at any time with no fees. | Month-to-month, with no long-term contract. |
| Card payments | Time To Pet Payments, powered by Stripe according to its help center. In the US that's 3% plus 30 cents per card payment and 1.3% plus 30 cents for ACH, with no monthly fee. Chargebacks cost $15 each, and instant payouts cost 1% of the payout, $2.50 minimum. | Credit card processing comes with Starter and above, and integrated payments run through Cosairus Pay. Ask us for rates in writing. |
| Deposits | Deposits only work with credit cards through Time To Pet Payments. The card on file is charged when a request is submitted, and bookings your staff schedule don't collect deposits automatically. | When a deposit policy applies, Petsoft works out the deposit when the reservation is created, and pet parents can pay deposits online through the portal. |
| Expired vaccines | Blocking is optional. An admin can switch on a portal setting that stops a pet parent from requesting services when vaccinations are past due. Otherwise staff see alerts. | Shows a warning to your staff and to the pet parent, and your staff decide whether the pet can stay or attend. See how other vendors compare. |
| Online booking | Pet parents request stays online. Each request arrives as pending, and staff approve it, leave it pending, mark it unavailable or delete it. | Pet parents reserve boarding and daycare in the pet parent portal. You choose whether reservations are confirmed right away or held for staff approval. |
| Texting | $10 a month to reserve a phone number, 250 texts a month per active staff member, and 2.5 cents for each extra text. | SMS comes with paid plans and is billed by usage on your monthly invoice, including message charges, carrier fees and phone number rental. |
| QuickBooks Online | Its invoicing page says it syncs invoices, payments and clients to QuickBooks Online. | Ask the Petsoft team whether QuickBooks Online is available on your plan. |
| Moving your data | Free data imports from a .csv file: clients, pets, staff and vets. Scheduled services and invoices can't be imported. Imports typically take one to two business days. | Petsoft's onboarding team migrates your customer records, pet profiles and vaccination histories before your first day live. Initial staff onboarding typically runs a few hours. |
| Support | Says every plan includes unlimited support. Phone and chat hours aren't published on the pages we checked. | US-based support. |
| More than one location | Its help center recommends a separate account for each location, billed per account, and says financial and schedule reports can't be combined across them. | Professional covers up to three locations under one account, with consolidated multi-location reporting. Four or more is Enterprise, with a custom price. |
Questions to ask before you switch
- Which plan covers my facility, and what will I pay each month once I add texting and payroll?
- What does it cost to take cards, get paid out early and handle a chargeback?
- Do deposits work on reservations my staff enter, or only on online requests?
- Can an expired vaccine stop an online request, and who has to turn that on?
- What do texts cost: number rental, the included amount, and anything extra?
- If I have a second location, is it one account or two, and can I see reports across both?
- Which records come across in the import, and what happens to scheduled services and invoices?
Put the same list to Petsoft through our contact page.
Frequently asked questions
If you run a boarding, daycare, grooming or training facility, yes. Petsoft covers reservations, a pet parent portal, vaccination records, card processing and staff scheduling. The table above shows where the two differ on payments, deposits, texting and locations.
Time To Pet's own site doesn't say. A February 5, 2024 notice on the investor LLR Partners' site says DaySmart acquired Time To Pet, and Time To Pet's payroll page calls its payroll product DaySmart Payroll.
Only if an admin turns on that portal setting, according to its help center. Otherwise staff see alerts. Petsoft shows a warning to staff and to the pet parent and leaves the decision to staff.
Petsoft has a Free plan with no time limit, and you don't need a card to sign up. Time To Pet lists a 14-day free trial with no card.
Sources, Time To Pet's own pages unless noted, read October 26, 2026: pricing, boarding software, billing, card rates, deposits, vaccinations, pending requests, text messages, switching and imports, multiple locations, payroll and LLR Partners' notice (not Time To Pet's own site). Help articles are undated.
