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Dog Daycare Management Made Easy

From reservations to check-in to pick-up, Alaga keeps your daycare's day organized so you can focus on the pups.

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Challenges We Solve

Common pain points that Alaga eliminates from your day-to-day operations.

Capacity Chaos — Tracking daily capacity on a whiteboard leads to overbooking or empty spots. Without a live count of who is booked for each day, you turn away clients when room actually exists or take one dog too many on a Monday when you're short-staffed. As your business grows, the whiteboard stops keeping up.
Check-In Bottlenecks — Long lines during morning drop-off frustrate clients and delay your team's day. Staff get stuck collecting paper forms, verifying vaccination records, and writing down special care instructions instead of getting dogs settled. A rushed check-in also increases the risk of missing critical details like a midday medication.
Lost Pet Information — Feeding needs, behavior notes, and special instructions end up scattered across paper files, sticky notes, and text messages. When a new staff member covers a shift, they have no easy way to find out which dogs need a midday meal, which ones don't do well with other dogs, or which pup is being picked up early. This lack of centralized pet profiles puts both animals and your reputation at risk.
No-Shows Impact Revenue — Last-minute cancellations and no-shows leave you with unfilled spots and lost income that is nearly impossible to recover same-day. When a reserved dog simply doesn't turn up, your staffing plan for the day is thrown off. Without reminders going out automatically and a Waitlist to fill the gap, those spots stay empty.
Clients Asking for Updates — Clients want to know their dog is happy and safe, but you don't have time to call or text everyone individually. First-time daycare clients are especially anxious on the first day. When their questions arrive by phone, text, and email, some inevitably get missed.
Staff Coordination — Who needs a midday feeding, who gets medication at noon, which dog is being picked up early — without a shared task list, staff spend the day asking each other. Missed medications and forgotten instructions follow, and nobody can say afterwards who did what and when.
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Everything You Need to Succeed

Purpose-built for the way you actually work.

Multi-Dog Reservations

Families book all their dogs in a single reservation. Clients with two or three dogs manage every pup from one customer portal account, and your team sees the whole household's schedule, feeding requirements, and notes at a glance.

Capacity by Day

Set how many dogs you take on each day of the week and Alaga counts reservations against it, so the portal stops offering a day once it's full. The occupancy calendar shows what's booked for the weeks ahead and the occupancy report shows how full you actually ran. Your front desk always knows the true availability without counting heads on a whiteboard.

Digital Check-In/Out

Check dogs in from the reservation with a guided check-in workflow — agreements are already signed in the customer portal, vaccination status is flagged right on the reservation, and special instructions are on the pet's profile. Clients spend less time in the lobby, and your team gets dogs settled sooner.

Alaga screens for Multi-Dog Reservations, Capacity by Day, Digital Check-In/Out

Feeding & Medication Tracking

Log feeding schedules, portion sizes, and medication administration with staff confirmation and timestamps. Each dog's dietary needs and supplement routines are attached to their profile so nothing gets missed during busy midday rotations. Managers can review feeding and medication logs to confirm every pup was cared for according to the client's instructions.

Two-Way Messaging

Clients text your business number and the message lands in the Messages inbox tied to their client record. Anyone at the front desk can reply, the conversation stays on the record, and reminder texts are answered the same way. No more questions lost in a personal phone.

Waitlist Management

Keep a Waitlist for high-demand days and notify clients when a spot opens up. Alaga keeps the queue for you, so your front desk never has to track who called first, and a waitlisted client can be moved onto a reservation in a click. Waitlist is included on the Professional plan and up.

Alaga screens for Feeding & Medication Tracking, Two-Way Messaging, Waitlist Management

Automated Reminders

Reduce no-shows with automatic email and SMS reminders sent 24 hours and 2 hours before each daycare reservation. Clients reply to the text or use the customer portal to reschedule or cancel. SMS reminders draw on your plan's monthly text allowance; email reminders are included on every plan.

Prepaid Visit Packages

Sell packs of daycare visits up front — a 10-visit or 20-visit pack at a volume price. Alaga tracks the remaining visits on the client's record and staff redeem one at checkout. Service Packages are included on the Professional plan and up.

Vaccination Verification

Alaga flags expired or missing vaccination records on the reservation so your team sees it before the dog arrives. Clients upload updated records through the customer portal and receive email reminders when a vaccination is approaching expiration, so a lapsed record never gets in the way of reserving a day.

Alaga screens for Automated Reminders, Prepaid Visit Packages, Vaccination Verification

A Day in the Life with Alaga

See how Alaga transforms your daily operations.

1

7:00 AM: Review Today's Schedule

Check the day's arrivals against your capacity, review any special care notes, and see which dogs have a feeding or medication task due today. Flags for vaccination status and the aggressive-pet marker are right on the reservation list.

2

8:00 AM: Quick Check-Ins

Check each dog in from its reservation — agreements are already signed in the customer portal, and the pet's notes and instructions are on screen. Staff confirm any new instructions from the client and get the dog settled within minutes of arrival.

3

12:00 PM: Care Tasks & Messages

Staff work through the day's feeding and medication tasks, ticking each one off with a timestamp and their name. When a client texts to ask how their dog is doing, the reply goes out from the Messages inbox and stays on the client record.

4

5:00 PM: Smooth Pick-Ups

Check out from the reservation, redeem a visit from the client's prepaid package or take payment by card on file, terminal, or cash, and the invoice is done. Clients leave with a settled bill and a dog that was fed and medicated on time.

AutoCapacity Tracking
DigitalCheck-in/Out
PrepaidVisit Packages
SmartWaitlist Management

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